The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
ON TEE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
By ROY x. MOULTON.


Ice cream social t. other night was
notable success:
Given by the Ladies' Aid most a hundred
there, I guess.
Held it on the pastors lawn, which was
decorated bright,
Chinese lanterns hangfn' round, and 1t
was a gala night.
Ezra Purdy worked all day turnin' of the
freezer crank,
Till he so lame that he couldn't give
another yank.
Amos Bibbins dished it out. 1t was very
plain to see
When a friend of his came round he
showed some Partially.
Every one who came along bought the
minister a dish;
Till the good man was as cold as an
Arctic ocean fish.
Spooners' corner in the shade drew fine
and dandy crowd;
Only place where xissin' games for the
young folks were allowed.
Only three or four fist fights over gals
disturbed the peace;
Otherwise the social ran right along as
All the profits was to go to the heather
out in Swat;
Walters ate so much ice cream, one
plunks ali the heather got
Signs of the Times.
Most lawyers go in for the cubist style
of handwriting Nobody can understand
An opera without words has just been
successfully produced in Paris. There
are already many operas without music
King Manuel. who thinks of resuming
his throne, should remember Jim Jefries.
Secretary Redfield believes in the merit
,Iystem In other words he is not much
IF politician.
Secretary McAdoo will see no office
seekers after 1 p. M, and doubtless ne
never could some of them
Quick, Watson, the hypo. A louisiana
paper suggests that it is time to begin
saving up for Christmas.
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chief Well, the public has never offended
Mr.. Dabney in any way and he should
have cause to try and get even:
Experience evidently does not teach
France anything worth remembering.
Sixty-one bombs have been thrown in
N-e1T Xork since January LIST, not counting
the one thrown into the Tammany camp
by Gov. Bill Sulzer.
The ultimate consumer nov mas asa, sh or
ripe in the back yard
a ST Louis butcher has made a sausage
fifty feet long. 1t would be interesting to
io,,, IL he can do 1t and make both ends
The Underwood bill provides for
free potatoes, but not in the restau-
rants.
According to Uncle Abner.
A one-horse grocery store or a one
horse barber shop is all right, but
Amos Butts says one-horsc livery sta
BILE amt much good, especially Wheh
there is a funeral
Miss Amy Pringle has got the hives
and a new switch and between scratch
in and fxin' up her back hair she is
kept so busy that she don't have no
time to run her millinery emporium.
Miss Lutte Bibbins, who runs the
dancing school, is introducing new
dance which is called the St. Vitus.
Reginald Hickey, our actor who is
spendine the summer here with his
mother. says he never played in vaude-
Vile and doesn't even know what state
II is in. but he has played in Prouty-
vile several times.
This is getting to be quite a metro
politan place. Hank Tumms trimmed
the fringe off the bottom of his pants
in Lem Scroggs' feed cutter Thursday.
Fine feathers don't make fine birds,
but they make fine picture hats.
Uncle Ezra is certainly an ancient
codger He kin remember when folks
used to ride on bicycles.
1t must be tough for an actor to
join a stock company and have to
travel around with lot of sheep cows
and bosses.
It's easy to accumulate money in
this country. After Teller gifts his
first million there's nothin' to 1t.
Long howin' whiskers used to be a
sign of great knowledge. but now they
arc a sign that Teller amt got no
chin.
Grandma Bibbins read in the paper
that there was some magnificent
spectacle at the Hippodrome and
she says she wishes she had been there
to git a pair.