The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-11


Our two most prolific entertainers,
Ponce and Leon, should get together,
Ind this department would enjoy the
ole Of connecting link Blow in, gents,
and stop quarTeling long enough 70
become acquainted. MEANWHILE
aides. gents and others-MR. Near
THUR:
Lots of geeks may have ambition
although dead from inanition, to
break into print at times. The meth
cd of their doing is to go the Muse
a-wooing and grind out sloppy
rhymes. I have read with some
confusion Old Dub Ponce's last Ell
fusion; as of yore his point is dim
don't know just what's the mat
ter, but the metre of his pattsr
shows there's something Wrons
with him. Chances are some poll
tician has refused him q position,
which of course would make MN
sore; for you'll find no louder
squeaksr than a turned-down OF
flee seeker, but it does no GOOD %
roar And i'll bet a round IRON
dollar that he has no room to hol-
le--that he's had an easy life. II
he ever bought a ''tater" he said;
'Charge this UP to pater;" or per-
haps he said, my Wife. He would
have no hours to ponder and no
matter gray to squander II ne ha1 az
to earn his way, and instead OF
Wishy-waShy rhymes and poems
worse than slosEy, he'd be digging
dirt for pay. All the thinking ne
can muster wouldn't clog feather
dusteF or conditions change one
jot. So he'd better use his vigor
oo some other thing-majigger ana
stop rhyming-on the spot.
L'ENVOI.
Not saying this is any worse or
better than our friends.
If you don't care to use 1t, don L
and there the matter ends.
LEON McARTHUR,
New York, Chicago and Paris.
Hetty Green's son has announced that
ne is going to get married within q
year 1t is not necessary to hunt up
MS picture and a resume OF his ror-
ner life before laying a bet that ne
will put ii over If he really means
t. He is heir to some several mil
ions, and Mother Hetty is Growing
Did.
The ability to nail the choice Of
SQUADS in a matrimonial deal. as point
ed out in The previous paragraph, has
some Disadvantages however. The
Church is busily engaged In denounc-
ng the proposed alliance between Mil
ionaire AStor and a poor girl 'f
course, Col. Astor being rich, can
square it with the churches, but the
advertising he is getting out OF T. Is
nothing to enthuse over.
The Churches refer to his proposed
alliance as ''free love- but the fact re
mains that no love is free to a mill
fonaire, and the Churches are slight
" mistaken in their first guess.
A hard working lawyer must have
some recreation. Some of them go IN
for golf. others for quail shooting. and
still others for trimming L.tharlo
Cooper.
And the latter class has the edge.
Is it is the only sport of a lucrative
nature and it is restricted by neither
Weather nor game laws.
A gent connected with the board of
lealth says he hates cats. Hate is an
,mCtion that normal people reserve for
EQUALS or superiors. They merely dis
ike certain animals lnc human in
'eriors.
John Warne Gates was worth over
/ hundred millions last week, now he
s worth less than round steak (Mere-
y another and rougher way Of repeat
ng the moth eaten truth that you
cant take it with you.D
psf, HORACE, THE AXE!
This bundle of simplicity
VIII get too long, we fear,
And so we take our snjckers1ee
And chop it off, right
HEREi
Hep