The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-03
Jayhawker Jots
AS the Minneapolis Better Way
says: Do q man a favor and he will

AS the Minneapolis Better Way
says: Do q man q favor and he will
remember it longer than you do.
After a man is forty, says the Jewell
County Monitor. you do not have to
tell him not to go to bed late. He
goes without being told.
Exceedingly appropriate news from
Triumph, in the Toronto Republican:
Mrs. Harold Evans says one of her
old hens laid an egg the other day.
A number Of men have found out
to their sorrow, says the Kingman
Journal, that 1t Is easier to mortgage
the home to buy an automobile than 1T
is to mortgage an automobile to buy q
home.
According to the Ottawa Herald.
clothing merchant in Ottawa got the
8. o. 8. signal by telephone recently
from an East Side home. The signal
was translated to read: Send out
Socks'
For a headline over the news that
Mrs. Eva NJ. Murphy. of Goodland. has
announced her candidacy for congress
from the Sixth district. the Valley
Falls Review uses: "A Willow Plume
in the Ring"
A sentence sermon on marriage.
from the Hope Dispatch: Marriage is
a. partnership in which each member
Of tho firm must work for the success
~
capital invested and unless each part
ner is interested in the success of the
firm, all kinds Of troubles may arise
and the firm go broke both morally
and financially.
The OronoQue correspondent OF the
Norton County News reports that un-
usual Kansas occurrence, q successful
wolf hunt, as follows: The wolf hunt
last Thursday was a success In that
they thought they saw q wolf run out
Of the ring. Probably 1t was SO far
away from any one that they could
not tell it from q horse. They Stayed
the jack rabbits.
That safe and sane Emporia parent
who named his new daughter Mary
Jane should receive a pearl handled
umbrella from q grateful and appre-
ciative populace. insists the Emporia
Gazette. After a generation OF Macs
and Beryls and Gwendolins 1t Is good
to get back to the sensible and stately
names of our mothers and grand
mothers. The parent in question will
have to watch out, however. or the
girl, when she grows up. will be spell
ing her name Marie Jeanne.
The Clay Center Dispatch has issued
an Industrial Edition in a magazine
form Of 116 pages. 1t Is replete with
excellent half-tone illustrations Of
persons. business buildings. homes and
scenes in Clay Center and vicinity, and
the reading matter is a most interest
ing chronicle of the activities of that
thriving community. Editor Hemp
hill is deserving of the hearty congrat-
ulations Of his fellow-craftsmen for
producing q special edition that will
take its place among the very best
that have appeared in Kansas.
Told for a true story by Mrs. Robert
Fockt, in the Eureka Democratic
Messenger: Mrs. A. assists her editor
husband in the newspaper office. One
day Mrs. B. sent her little girl to ask
Mrs. A. to accompany her to a club
meeting that afternoon. Mrs. A. said
to the little girl: "Tell your mamma
I should love to go with her, but this
is press day and have to help put
wrappers on the papers this after
noon" The little girl promptly re-
ported: Mrs. A. said she would love
to go with you to the club meeting
but she has to help put tea gowns on
the papers this afternoon"