The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-22
ON TEE SPUR
OF The MOMENT
Signs of the Times.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.


Colonel Astors widow No. has
been frozen out of New York society.
1t must be judged by that that she
is a very lucky young woman.
Boston man arrested for using a
mirror in a poker. game, Philadelphia
is the only town Slow enough to make
that possible.
Some congressman would rather
build postoffices than dreadnoughts,
but postoftices make a poor line of de-
Tense.
Noyes. the British poet, says Amer
lea is all right. Americans have had
a suspicion of that kind for some time.
Down to hardpan at last. A col
lege professor has discovered that al
falfa makes a splendid breakfast food.
Report says the persimmon crop is
a failure, but then it always was
failure, even when it was at it's best.
If all the present stars get into the
motion picture business it might be
a distinct help to the legitimate stage.
If they ever go broke the Pank-
hurst sisters ought to make good in
vaudeville. The Cherry sisters did.
The price of stocks on the market
is going down, but this cannot be said
of the price of anything else.
This country seems to be full of
lifelong Democrats who began voting
the ticket away back in 1912.
If Jim Ham Lewis shaves off his
Wn1SkerS ne Will nave HOluILS DuI
his senatorial courtesy.
Every time anybody says young
blood is best, old man Weston starts
on another 2,000-mile hike.
The government believes that the
photograph trust needs time expos
ure.
Texas is being devastated by grass
hoppers. Joe Bailey had that job for
a long time.
The nation is still safe ]. Ham
Lewis hasn't shaved them off yet.
A Washington correspondent informs
us that President Wilson is bent on
the currency question: He is very
lucky to be only bent. Most of US
are broke on that question.
This, That and the Other.
You can always tell when a man is
at once.
An exchange tells of the three stingiest
men on record The first will not drink
water unless it comes from :, iIeighbor's
Well The second forbids his family to
write anything but a small hand, as it
wastes ink to make letters large. The
third stops the clock to save the wear and
tear of the machinery. All of them refuse
to take newspaper on the ground that
it Is terrible strain on their spectacles to
read.
Down at Yankee Springs the versatile
scribe who records the doings in that
vicinity has noted the following: Pa
Biddle and his wife have had another
falling out He asst her what she wanted
fer her birthday and she said she had
long time been wanting something nice
for her neck. So he gave her a bar of
Grandpa's Wonder Soap, and there has
been the dickens to pay 1t beats all how
some folks can't get
Missouri mules now sell for 81 a pound.
1t is not stated whether this is the price
in the meat market.
Hi Johnson may be the next senator
from California If the government of
Japan does not object.
The duty will be removed from castor
oil, but it will always be considerable
OF a duty to take 1t.
When a president of Hayu can die
natural death, anything is liable to hap
pen.
Hot Weather Hints.
BE careful of your diet. Be sure ana
eat plenty of light food. such as corned
beef and cabbage, pork and beans, sweet
breads and bacon, sauerkraut and frank
furters, Dreaded salt pork, hot uatnc4 pie
and buckwheat pancakes
Il you are uncomfortab bic in bed, get up
and try to sleep in one of those old-fash-
toned dropping hammocks- Then you will
be glad to get back into bed
Switzerland Is a good place to spend the
summer. This hint will doubtless be OF
value to nearly one-half of one per cent
of our readers.
If you are so hot that you don't know
what to do with yourself, go out and split
four cords of wood