The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-29

/ of the Moment
/ II III 1oY X NouLroN.
Ray.
Now doth the tired business man
Improve each shining hour.
Among the trout streams OF tho north
To bring back pep and power.
He wades about IN high top boots
About tho brook trout that he caught
Back In the halcyon days
He spends all of his hard earned
dough.
And energy a. wen.
But 1t Will be worth time to hear
The stories that he'll tell.
The old man plants his garden seeds
I And waits for them to grow.
He's going to nave q fortune sure
On VEGETABLES. you know.
He'n rake and hoo and drag and
| spade.
And talk In learned style
About the crop of onions he
VIII garner after awhile.
Tho baseball season opens and
He goes and roots q lot,
And quite forgets until next spring
His cherished garden spot.
The family begins to quarrel
About tho summer plans:
They try to pick out some resort.
0QG 0Olu8n0W no 0CnSu9 QULuBs
Tho mushroom hunter hits the trail.
The king Of Maytime fools.
And carries home with him at night
/ A mess OF nice t0adstoOls.
The book beer fiend gets busy and
Goes on his springtime toot,
And Willie OF the boulevards
Puts on his two-piece suit.
Signs Of tho Times.
Torreon seems to be almost as
hard to take az q dose Of castor oil.
DR.. Pena OF Argentine calls the
Monroe doctrine absurd. Can't some
body write q funny poem on DR.. Pena
MY Lady's Dress II the title of
Edward Knoblauch's new play in.
London. One might expect a frank.
open expose.
If regular Mexican money is worth
only so per cent, what must the
Mexican rebel money be worth?
The administration will have some
trouble in making the old boys Of the
navy drink grape Juice. But the navy
ought to be able to get along on
water.
Judging by the past and present,
ture when q famine In China is not
imminent.
Congress hopes to pass laws which
will make sea travel perfectly safe,
but it will never be able to eliminate
the NAL de meg.
Secretary Bryan has cancelled his
lucrative Chautauqua engagements.
War is certainly hell
Enrico Caruso has been sued for
100000 for breaking a woman's
heart. 1t IL getting SO that breaking
hearts IL almost as expensive as rum
ming q motor car.
Chicago woman wants a divorce be-
- a T4
 AssAS -
cents q week for clothing. But. then,
the gowns are very skinny now.
Uncle Abner.
T. Egbert Peavey is saving cigarette
coupons to get a. oatmobile. He has
only got to save 689.542 more and he
will probably git the oatmobile II the
cigarettes don't git him first.
There amt no Teller who kin knock the
home team louder than the ono who gifts
into the game On Nipaes. So
There are plenty Of ways to be unhappy
without moving next door to q Teller who
unkers his own oatmobtle from morning
until night and then on until morning.
Hank Tumms says he hopes they will
there. It is the only excuse he has had
70 get away from home since the Difficult
~ with Spain. and then he just got start
Cd when the war stopped and they sent
him back.
Anne Hilnker's son, who is working in
wholesale house in Chicago, writes
home that he IS earning 500 a week-and
he only gets SO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anse Judson are havin'
family jar over which summer resort
to go to this year. and will probably COM
promise as usual by staying at home
All that is needed now IL an oatmobile
horn that will scare q pedestrian to death
instead Of Just maxim him suffer nervous
prostration.
1t 10 gettin' 20 nowadays II q farmer
kin raise hawg to sell, he kin lift the
mortgage on the old farm and buy a
flock OF buzz wagons.
If a Teller loses his temper nowadays
he loses the only thing that IL of any
value to him.