The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-24
ALL IN VIEWPOINT
What TOpekans Think of the
Hot Weather.
The Teamster, Bricklayer,
Banker and Clerk.
THEY ARE PHILOSOPHERS
Then There Is the Baker and
the Laundryman.
Called for Ice Before
He'd Be Quoted.

There is a diversity of opinion con-
cerning the hot weather, ranging from
the druggists chuckle, I've been wait
ing three months for this kind OF
weather I like it better than any other
kind" to the tinker's groan, TITS as
hot as the fires of hades.'
Topeka has neither mountain nor
seashore, but for the most part, the
stay at homes are accepting the heat
as philosophically as the deep sea
bathers or the climbers with the al
pine stffs.
mo man is any warmer than he
thinks it is" said a prominent judge,
comes around, make up my mind 1t S
the proper thing to perspire."
"Am I hot? Is this a joke?" choked
the man who writes the funny column,
and sits in a shady room by breezy
window, ooh, no, I'm not hot" he
wrung imaginary buckets from his
brow, "Cut it. This is no weather for
a joke of any kind
The depot porter energetically scrub
ring windows, sweat swimming down
his dusty, grinned cheerfully.
Hot, ma'am? quoth he, ''Well, maybe
it am, but it don't bother me-"
Banker Who Is Philosopher.
'I haven't forgotten the winter yet"
said the bank president swinging
around in his swivel chair, and read
justing his electric fan, 'aEd I'm en-
jcying life immensely. The man is
chronic kicker who can't forget the hbt
part of the day when he has cool
nights, good Sundays, automobiles. AMI
soda fountains. Those are my ideas,
and you may sign my name to them.
A man shouldn't be ashamed to ac-
his opinion about the wealth
err" William Macferran beamed with
the smile that everyone loves to see,
''E suppose" he added thoughtfully,
&c If were a girl, I'd say, AS long as
I have a peek-a-boo waists don't mind
the hot weather.
Express Driver Used to 1t.
An expressman, with miles of paved
streets to traverse under the skies of
sunny Kansas, mops his rosy face and
observes, Last two weeks have been
pretty bad; like the shade better than
the sun, but been doin' this business
fol- forty-one years, and I'm used TO
"Gosh,' said the elevator man with
the red hair, its darn hot. Some peo-
pie think the elevator man has a snaI
n warm weather, but, believe me, that's
all a joke
Suffragette Too Busy to Get Hot
Il feel sorry for the woman who has
nothing to do in the heat was the
opinion at suffrage headquarters. The
speaker was busy with a pile of un-
answered letters, and glanced up hur-
'iedly, eff she has nothing to think
lbout except how to keep cool, she Is
going to be miserable. The woman
Who has nothing to do" she added.
brightly, will find a glorious opening
or good service in this very ROOM
AS a matter of fact, the women who
OUNCE on the veranda and busy them
selves with a palmleaf fan are this
hottest people in town.
The commission merchant seated
himself at dinner of steak and sau-
age, corn, salad, watermelon and tea
It's hot" he admitted, hungrily, but
when it's not too hot to work, it's not
90 hot to eat. That's my idea
No One Tainted Yet.
One thinks of laundry as the
varmest place in the world. I'VE don't
eel the heat here any more than any
where else" sighed a weary ironer,
ON one has dropped down yet. There's
10 much moisture that we perspire
reely, and that's good for u.s.
''Aint got no time to think of the
weather." said the man who was lay
ng bricks. He looked like a human
waterfall, gotta work just the same,
md there amt no use"
A man who sells shoes watched an
rate customer stalk Indignantly down
he aisle. III not the W6dIn6r CnaC (
oad," he said, craftily, we've got
,ans and all that, but-oh, gee-yo1
meet some awful dispositions
why, this weather makes the corn
shoot" cheerily announced the super
ntendent of public instruction, but
1e added, Its about the same thing
Is Sherman called the war!"
Baker said 1t Could Be Worse.
Pretty warm here said the man in
he bakery. Might be worse, though.
It's not like last summer, and that's
me consolation. If the ovens are ar
anged so as not to throw out the heat,
bakery isn't the worst place in th'
vorld.''
Clerks in department stores, as a gen
raj rule, are optimistic. It's so com
ortable in the store,' declared the wo-
nan at the glove counter, that we
ont notice the heat very much-but
is mighty hot outside"
Dan Garden Wanted Ice.
Put an ice bucket on the back OF |
ne head, and thin you can quo-ote me-
rawled the cheeriest sergeant in town |
Now, they say, polacemin are cold |
ut I say to you, they faIe the hate |
Ike ANYONE else
It's all in the viewpoint anyway.
Lord gasped the summer boarder |
aiming himself with his Panama, Its |
3 in the shade
well" croaked the farmer, shoulder |
1g his scythe, you don't have to stay |
4 the shade, you know"
A. L. H
Coal Oil Comes Down.