The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-09
Jayh awker Jots

If the ornithologists want to look up
a rare old bird fossil, suggests the
Emporia Times, why not hunt for the
Dove of Peace?
Don't judge by appearance, advises
the lola Register. Even the porch
climber and the second-story man are
ambitious to rise in the world.
One comfort from the rainy season
City Star, IS the knowledge that the
fish the fall anglers catch will DE Dig,
healthy and granted.
Having been told by their doctors
that they need more exercise, the
Winfield Courier says that many peo-
pie walk out on the porch and oper-
ate a rocking chair all through the
summer evening.
I found out one thing this week,
confesses Uncle Ira in the Chanute
Tribune: If you are a man and there
is a lady sewing on her front porch,
you are not to say, What are you
making, Mrs. Son So ?'' My wife says
it is very bad manners.
What the Children Say, as related
by Mrs. Homer Hoch in the Woman's
Corner of the Marion Record: A small
boy went with his mother to call. He
sat and sat and finally said: II smell
apples" No notice was taken so he
repeated it several times. Finally the
lady of the house brought him the
half of an apple. Whereupon the
youngster whimpered. "Oh, 1 smelled
whole apples.". The old fashion
ed mother brought the pill to her
young hopeful concealed in a spoon
full of jelly. He took it and called
spit out the seed"
Related by the Society Reporter for
the Manhattan Nationalist: Two wo-
men sat in a Manhattan restaurant
They were talking busily. Beside one
of them lay a folded newspaper. A
fly alighted on the table, and the wo-
man, without pauSing in her converse
ton, picked up the paper, approached
it craftily towards the fly, and at the
psychological moment, swatted the in
sect most dexterously. Realizing then
where she was she flushed, and apollo
gized, saying that she had acquired
the fly-swatting habit so strongly, that
it had become almost automatic with
her.
Observations by Keith Clevenger, in
his Osawatomie Graphic: The man
who works merely for wages dies a
pauper. Lost manhood cannot be
returned by advertising for it. .....
Too many people pray like they were
ordering a sirloin steak. 80. Working
with one eye on the clock soon makes
a man near-sighted. One doesn't
necessarily have to be an artist to
draw his own conclusions. -. Every
communitys affairs are dictated by the
noisy, dissatisfied minority. Many
a man doesn't know he has a bee in
his bonnet until it stings him. 49,.
In these days a touching story is
aimed at the pocketbook rather than
the heart.
Under the caption Peace To His
Ashes" the Emporia Gazette prints
interesting obituary on "Old Tom"
the tiger striped cat which had been
among those present in Ryder &
Leatherberry drug store for fourteen
years, of which the following is the
concluding paragraph: So Tom
prospered and grew fat and gained the
respect of his master and all the drug
patrons who came into the store. A
big, handsome cat was Tom Leather
berry, and a wiser feline never chewed
mouse flesh. Two years ago, when
the price of meat went up, tom" re-
fused to eat beefsteak and for the
past two years he lived entirely on
liver. But today Tom is dead and
the clerks in the drug store are mourn
ing for him. 1t is said a cat has nine
lives-heres hoping old tom" has
eight more as useful as the one he
gave I'D Yesterday.