The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-09


meetings than formerly
We know an Atchison man who
could get along pretty easily, if the
gold in his teeth drew interest.
1t looks as though there would be
money in a lady baseball club but
there isn't.
Did you ever notice that the woman
on silver coin wears pompadour
and turban?
A woman's idea of economy is to
name another woman who paid
higher price for her new hat.
When you do a thing that pleases
10 one but your enemies, it is safe to
say that you have made a mistake.
When you go to country picnic
you are not much good unless you get
more than one invitation to dinner
At country picnic when ar excited
man comes up and inquiries, where
is the sheriff." the people wonder
what is up.
81 don't believe" said a man today,
Il would take much pleasure in wear
ing the biggest mustache in town, or
the longest finger nails"
We try not to become excited, but
we do every time we see poster in
Atchison advertising a circus per-
Torrance in another town.
Some chauffeurs seem to think they
are showing the walk public ample
consideration by not going up on the
sidewalk after them.
The football rules have been worked
over again to make the game more
sane, but nothing has been done to
eliminate the terrible college yell.
Some men think their right to be
mean to their wives and newspaper
reporters is inalienable, like right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.
A woman can't decide that she likes
a strange woman, until she has found
from her husbands opinion of the
strange woman that she could never
steal him away.
What little satisfaction there must
be in getting drunk to a deaf and
dumb man! He can't sing, and he
can't settle great problems by talk
ing to sober men.
An Atchison woman makes 50 a
week by keeping a COW, and supplies
the family with milk, cream and but
ter. She is so proud of her COW that
she compels her husband to take off
his hat to it,
When a man remains a bachelor,
his mother is very proud of him. ''He
is too smart" she will say, ito be
caught by any woman" But, when
her daughter remains a spin, why
that's different.
An Atchison girl is so modest that
when she goes to the store to try on
Shoes she takes her mother along
She doesn't propose to have a man
handle her feet without a protector
within hailing distance.
The boys are not the only ones who
remain up late at night, thinking that
something important Is liable to hap
pen, which they will miss if they go
to bed at a reasonable hour. Every
night, in the lobster palaces of New
York, may be found regularly thou.
sands of men who spend their money
like fools, and look for excitement that
never happens.
We have known a certain Atchison
man thirty-three years, and during
all that time he has been working for
a noble purpose. And with all fair
ness and candor, we cannot see that
he has ever accomplished anything,
although we have heard many talk
mean about him, because he takes
up so much of the time of busy men.
If you want to do good, do it by mod.
est example, rather than by loud talk
ing.
This morning we saw Ward Chat
burn, manager of the Electric thea
ter, standing in front of a Commercial
street stairway, talking to someone
we could not see. We thought we
had never seen Mr.. Chatburn look so
strange; ne didn't look like himself
We couldn't help thinking what
has happened to Ward Chatburn?"