The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
AYHAWKER JOTS

It has been discovered by the Pratt
Union that the "quiet man. is all
right as long as you do not roll him,
but when he gets mad, the fur begins
to fly.
The Jewell City Republican thinks
that before getting married and after
getting married everybody ought to
pray this prayer: Lord make me
easy to live WITH
A great truth in the Smith County
Journal: Every city man starts out in
the spring to get rich making garden
and winds up in the fall by buying his
vegetables at the market.
Some of our lady teachers request
us, says the Pratt Union. to tell their
steadies that they don't want any
valenties, but that a box of good
candy is always appreciated. They
can not eat valentines.
When man starts out to save the
country you will notice that he gent
orally begins at home, says Deacon
Walker in his Osborne Farmer. He
either invents some scheme to reduce
his own taxes or becomes a candidate
for office.
No bloodhound has ever caught a
Kansan in this state, and we believe,
says the Minneapolis Better Way, that
the fellow who was caught by the
dogs down in Alabama was a Mis-
sourian masquerading as a Jayhawker.
VIC 0CA4dAd al dpOlOGy.
Old Bill Shiftless is feeling mighty
chesty these days, reports the Osborne
Farmer, Bill had his picture in the
Kansas City Star of last Sunday. He
is shown in a characteristic pose
leaning against a wall smoking mis-
pipe and whiting away on a stick of
wood Mr. Shiftless dropped around
to show up the paper, remarking at
the same time that he didn't care what
the knockers said about him around
Osborne. He had standing abroad and
was a personal friend of tn editor of
the Star. Bill is now looking for a
chance to get to Kansas City with a
shipment of stock so he can drop
around and have chat with Colonel
Nelson of the Star. 1.-THE colonel -
said Old Bill. "has known me for
years and we will have u mighty nice
visit
At the parties in little towns, says
the Atchison Globe, the women talk a
good deal about the men, but the men
they talk about are always their own
husbands. Here is some of the talk
overheard at an Atchison afternoon
party lately. One bride said, eff I had
It to do over again l would require an
iron bound agreement with my hus-
band, before marriage. He would have
to promise to be pleasant, instead of
glum, when he got UP in the morning.
He would have. to promise to do odd
jobs around the house. and he would
have to like SOUP" Another
married woman said: ST dearly love
my husband, but I do get mad at him
about the ashes in the furnace. The
only thing he is ever expected to do
around the house is to carry out those
ashes. He is forever getting at it. AT
last he comes home from the office,
rather earlier than usual, looking as
though he is being imposed upon, be
ca1ISe he has those ashes to carry out.
He goes to his room, puts on an old
pair of corduroy trousers. a. flannel
shirt which he turns in at the neck,
ties bandana handkerchief around his
head, puts his pipe in his mouth. lights
1t, draws on pair of heavy gloves,
and signing heavily, starts for the fur
mace. When he reaches it he looks at
the ashes. puffs awhile at his pipe, and
then says, It's too dark to carry out
those ashes: I'll do 1t tomorrow