The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-02

A Question.

II n ROY x. NoUIHoN.
A Question.
don't care how the hluebird ninRa
or how the eagie flaps his wings.
" whethef II blows or whether It SHOWS.
OF how the civic election eoes.
don't caro- whether the women vote,
That subject will never ret my goat.
don't care Whother the women hike
Vt 20 On an Engiish hunger strike.
don't care how meat prices soar.
0r how many bills come to my door.
Or whether the MexicSns fght or not.
There's just one thing that worries me.
really don't know where I'm a.
how VIII buy my w1fe's summer hatf
How Time F1ies.
8 p. NJ.
wife I'd be home By . o'clock
Me. too. Steve gotta stun this game
At 9 sharp. Shake up the pasteboards.
I'm Just like you two fsllers. It vas
nard enough to get way as It was and
gotta hit the feathers before 10 o'clock or
If home to mother for my wife. Geo.
Aw. stick around awhile. You three
fellers want any of my dough you gotta
most you all gotta duck before / win
enough to pay for the lighks..
This is positively the last hand for me.
Rupert. My wffe'n kill me. Gee, amt
there anything In that deck but cathops
ar bobtailed fiushes. I'd faint away IL
ever drew a pair Of Democrats.''
I'm going home. too. after this hand.
kin lust see my wife now. settin' up fer
me. For the love of Mike shake up them
cards. Il amt had as good as . pair Of
Johns since I got here
II gotta duck In ten minutes, SO IL you
bet 'em up. I'll crack her for 10c'
I'm gofn' to invite different bunch
next time. You all start to talk about
e evsr sst ct seur Me
come little strangers! What do you think
of three K boys. I'll boost that not two
bits You better all stay out IL you amt
''Ho-hum. What'fl my wife say? Deal
EN-. Steve. and II you ever want to bor-
row my iawnmower again you gotta come
1T is too late for me to go home now.
I'm called suddenly out Of town, under
stand. My wife'n strangle me. but got
to get back what I've anted in here. Oh.
Judas Iscariot. are you pickin' my cards
out with tweezers?"
I'm goin' home after five more hands.
home to mother right now. What's this.
raphersF Wei. what do You think 81
that?''
"Ain't you rabbits ever going home? 1
can't afford to sit here and lose every
hand and pay for the lights. too. And I'll
tell you, the next time you come here
you'll bring your own cigars. If I don't
get hand this time I'm goin' to turn out
the lights"
"Ho-hum! Your deal. Steve
stop THROWN them cigar butts on the
floor. This amt no saloon"
Tho Swatter's Harvest.
I swatted one this morning,
swatted with great care;
But when I raised my swatter
found he was not there.
It is indeed pe<plexing,
Although my aim Is perfect,
The blamed things won't stay swatted.
Uncle Abner.
= OLe Of the most Embarrassing things in
this word Is to have a Teller strike you
for ten just az you were about to strike
They have heavier-than-air machines
and 1ighter-than-air machines, but every
day or two something happens to prove
that all of the aviators are heavier than
air.
There are other ways fer a young feller
to acquire boss sense beside spending his
time hangin' around the village livery
stable.
Elmer Jones gave the milliner a solid
ivory manicure set and the milliner said
It would remind her of Elmer every time
Miss Pansy Tibbitts of our town was
engaged to a Teller with a wooden leg, but
he broke 1t of.
There amt nobuddy SO bitter agin
mustaches as the Teller who can't raise