The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-21
By ROY z. l(oULToN.

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I like to go round with a Teller I
know;
He amt so blamed handsome, as
handsome men go.
Hes not very bright. and sometimes I
He doesn't talk science or music or
Or try his discernment on mo to Inn
part.
He doesn't talk shop or the state Of
my health,
Or bore me to death with the visions
It's joy to go tramping with him
Because of the things I'm sure he
won't say.
He hasn't q fad that he tries hard to
spread.
He hasn't a single new thought In his
head.
But it's mighty consolin' to have him
around.
I know him clear through. from his
hat to the ground;
With me he has always been right on
the square,
And I'd trust him with all Of my coin
anywhere.
He has told me the truth when .
good downright lie
would have been a much pleasanter
thing. hope to die;
For to tell you the fact, he's a good
friend of mine,
About the best frind that I've got, I
opine.
It's hard to describe him. 40 TIL inst
relate
That he's only q common, plain sort
Of skate.
He amt worth a glance from a win
dow to see.
My friend whom speak Of is no one
but ME-.
Answers to Correspondents.
Maggie: You ask us how to be hap
py. There are multftudes of ways; so
many In fact, that nobody has a right
to be blue or down-hearted Start
your daughter taking vocal lessons,
ouy something on the instalment plan.
wear red flannel underclothes, go on q
milk diet. try to beat the coal man
down on his price, annex an automo-
bile, argue the suffrage question with
your wife. Oh, thunder, there are q
million ways to be happy, and you
must be entirely lacking in originality
II you can't think up one or two.
Sentimental: Why do they call it In
dian summer? We can't tell you that,
but We know an excellent recipe for
bread pudding II that will do any good.
or We CAN tell you how to eat musk
jabot.
Business Man: You can very easily
keep good stenographer. Marry her.
Prosperity.
1t sometimes seems q feller's got de
very meanest sort in life an it's
really not what it's cracked up to
But when he comes to fixxer mt
what he has been a-kickfn' bout.
he finds dat many fellers mout' be
much wuss off dan he.
IL sometimes seems dat things break
pad and den a teller. he gifts mad,
when he ought to be downright glad
dat dey amt any wuss;
When everything am said an done,
All has q quite a bit Of fun in life
an OATS on idle pun. All mus re-
member dat -.sz-s-s~s -lar
BY using quite q BIT Of stealth. Alive
managed to retain my health.
though one small purse kin hold my
wealth an not be very fat.
Prosperity may come some day, an if
sne dom all dat All say, il dat she
KIN 5es' stay way. AhIl get along
It always pays to smile an strive.
It's mighty good to be alive, cen
though yo' bank book does not
thrive. Dat much you mus allow.
Signs OF the. Times.
They are spending q lot of money
improving banana culture in the
south, but what is really needed IN a
banana with q slipless peel.
Some genius has invented a sand
cure Tor Indigestion. Anybody who
has indigestion surely needs plenty OF
sand.
Isn't it nearly time for T. r. to
come out of his tent with the solution
of the international Misunderstanding?
Edna Goodrich a Red Cross nurse
Oh, death, where is thy sting?
1t Is proposed to fine congressmen
$25 a day for absence from duty al
Washington. Wouldn't it be a better
away?
Thomas Edison says his greatest
work Is yet to come. Why does 9
man want to work all the time when
there Is SO much loafing to be done