The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-01
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80 " ~ VI III
NJ GANvBY RARsofSA
After years Of married life. ! man
. ~ never to tell his wife twice that
me same woman b good looking
= Topeka girl. returning from Coin
Is0o. according to the story told by Z
tIxveter on the same train, had q full
set OF golf bats which she kept the
ROrler moving from place to place 90
.Iat tney might not escape the eye of
U.neL uaveiers. She kept It up until
t the o ..1 traveller gave the assortment
tne once over" discovering that al
tnouen they we're brand new, t. Icame
rom the shop Of a Topeka dealer The
suA nao worked them on q round trip.
tits 30 obvious that OF course Others
nave fallen for It, but as Val Momma
= tne principal baker OF Howard, Kan.
neally anyone might be partoned for
p4raHng Wheeze about the bread that
aomma used to make.
Our art department manager oh
serves that number Of young candi-
oates are being supported by their
fathers-fn-law.
Jack Supp refuses to view with alarm
the European war prospects. saThey
haven't any CATS that viii shoot across
inc Dig pond. 30 being an innocent by
stander on this side Is comparatively
safe says Mr.. Supp.
It is rumored that the Dodd CASTOR
campaign slogan. will be more business
ana less bunk" Or an exact reversal of
the conditions which have prevailed for
one might gather that some Califor-
mans are impatient. and not satisfied
70 Jake 1T away from tourists in the
customary way. Train robberies are
growing more frequent in that state.
The state debt is IL cents per capita.
we stand ready to settle our share Of 1t
az any Tune We can borrow the other
seven cents from Shultx.
rnose who spend q major portion of
their time ridiculing the Caillaux trial
should stop to consider the difficulty of
convictfng a well-dressed female In
this country. The laugh isn't all on
the French jury.
The answer to the question: what is
so rare as day in June?'' seems to be:
"A not-overdone day in july.
Girls don't take much interest in pu-
silism. but they continue to train for
the engagement ring.
Sam Blythe's Kansas political dope
m the sat-eve-post, is remarkably lu-
cid, considering the fact that he gath
ereo his Information by passing
through Kansas at the best speed a
through train could offer. But he is
handicapped by the time it takes to get
out the last form on the esteemed Sat-
eve-post. A political situation can lie
GOWN ana roll over on its back in Kan
sas. while the Sat-eve-post copy boy
IL getting from the rush. hook to the
composing room.
During the first month Of married
y nie. Tor man to come home early
Is taken as matter Of course; for the
next year, with surprise, and after that
as distant shock.
This war talk in Europe again arous-
81 f1ling Fuiler's .curfosity as to what
U. 8. warships are still lying in Vera
Cruz harbor. So, apparently, are the
war correspondents.
There is but one worse habit than
reading poetry. according to Hondo
Murphy. and that is writing it,
It is comforting thought to the
cftizenry on foot that not even the
most reliable Of automobiles are per
feet. When the engine dropped out IF
Gene Stotts's machine, he missed it be-
rore he had gone over half a mile and
had to walk back and retrieve the
thing before he could make further
progress.
Ed Little calls attention to his total
Dst1nence. during the past several
years. from political office And the
Colonel has still Other recommended
lions.
The disturbances of 1776 ard 1872
were SO long ago that they should be
forgotten. or at least forgiven. and we
OF the same race should entertain the
hope that. perchance the pot boils
over. England will have better luck
with the outside enemy than she does
War is a joke to many. but a serious
proposition to the proof reader, who
hath barely mastered the correct SPELL
against Priepolie and Klotievatz
The river has beeh officially named
Rio Theodore" The Brazilians, being
unfamiliar with customs in this coun-
try, will refer to it by that name in
stead Of ''Teddyoso Creek"
They threw fits in Wall street when
Germany called Russia, and, II it was
like the average Wall street fit, the
seedy gink with $3.50 invested frothed
at the mouth longest.
It Is an 1nviolable rule. among petit |
stock gamblers, that the one who has
least to lose must holler loudest.
When man let's his whiskers get
two days long, his wife suspects that
he doesn't love her az much as he |
ulster. but doesn't suspect him of flirt- /
ing with other women.