The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
AYHAWKER JOTS

Some married men, says the Flor
ence Bulletin, can fool their wives as
| bad as some boys can fool their par
ents.
Sinful Peck, of the Hiawatha News
Democrat insists that "a lot of fellows
| fall down on the Turkey Trot, who
could do the Duck Waddle.''
Reported by the Whitewater In
dependent: Bill Eaton is still antic-
1pating. a Leap Year proposal catch
as-catch-can rules to prevail, strangle-
hold barred, however.
Will Palmer writes in his Jewell
| County Republican that he heard a
woman in another room say: Il got
| into snoWdrift' up to here but he
doesn't know yet how deep the snow
was.
! We don't recall ever seeing such a
| heavy stand of presidential timber,
remarks Doc Callem in his Pittsburg
kansan, and he adds: The stumpage
will be conspicuous after the nomina-
ton.
A pertinent suggestion from the
Clay Center Times: Spring is nearly
here, and why not find out now what
Gentle Armies" other name is, be-
fore the season is too far advanced.
stands on the suffrage question.
Attention is called by the Ness
County News to the fact that 1.-The au-
tomobile is a fair sort of vehicle for
pleasant weather and smooth roads,
but when conditions are unfavorable
Old Dobbin comes out of the stable
and moves things about with as great
complacency as if the stink-wagon had
never been invented
An old gentleman, past 80, says the
Whitewater independent, sitting be-
side the Missouri Pacific railway
track, talking to a group of admiring
youngsters was heard to remark:
Boys 1 remember seeing train run
events of our youth are more easily
remembered than those of recent
years.
Among the high school notes in the
Usage City Free Press: English Teach
er-John, what is the dash used for?
John-Cuss words. 49, Mr.. MARBLE
Evan, have you been through AL
zebra Evan-Yes, but it was dark
and 1 didn't see much. Miss
Mealy Gin English Horace, is that
an original story? Horace-No ma'am,
1 just made it up. 49, Mr.. Magnuson
Gin Cicero)-Lela, can you read that
next sentence? Lela-Yes, but 1 can't
translate it.
A certain LIE Roy girl whom we will
call Jane because that is not her
name, took her little nightie under
her arm one evening recently and
went to the home of q girl friend,
whom we will call Susie for the same
reason, to stay all night, relates the
LIE Roy Reporter NOW susie is SUD-
ject to cramps in her neither eXtremi-
ties al nights, and the only relief for
her is for papa to give the afflicted leg
a good rubbing. On this particular
night, Susie woke up shortly after the
clock had chimed the hour of 2 with
a cramp in her leg. She called for her
father, who came promptly to her aid. ]
He reached under the cover and gave
a limb a very vigorous rubbing, |
while all the time his daughter lay
noise like Mysteries The !
more the daughter seemed in pain, |
the harder papa rubbed and the hard |
er he rubbed the more hysterical the |
daughter became. Finally, papa ask
ed, Don't it feel any better?" and |
he was Mortified when a voice came |
from the other side of the bed dryly |
informing him that he had been rub |
bling James leg instead of his daugh- |
ter Susie's. And Susie was almost !
bursting with laughter.