The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-30
SUNFLOWER PETALS


Plucked BY the Golden Belt Spectator.
The Spectator has no advice to offer
Charles Davis, the missing sheriff of
Ellis county.
That conspicuous silence which is
heard this fall comes from the &c, 533
college graduates of last June.
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If the Golden Belt Fair for 1916 is to
be success that it can be made into, the
directors should begin their planning
now. Terrific energy cannot do every
thing. Momentum also accomplishes
things. Why not both?
The pioneer spirit is fine thing, but
to always have that spirit is simple.
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Some people do not forget but are
afflicted with chronic paralysis of the
memory.
The old-fashioned man who believes
that certain number of souls were
cast out of heaven when the devil made
his prehistoric and dramatic departure
from that abode, and who further be-
ieves that when an equal number of
human souls have been saved the pear
Iy gates will be closed to the remain
ing mortals, has been located in Hays.
That's about as close as the Spectator
cares to point him out There's
reason.
One of the churches of Hays had an
elaborate Sunday School luncheon to
which all the other churches sent repre-
sentatives. It was a great success.
The trouble with it however is that
there is not another one in sight until
this one will have been forgotten.
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The chief police matron of Philadel-
phia says there is a most decided in
crease in the drinking among young
women of the better class. In one of
Philadelphia 8 residence districts there
of women charged with drunkenness
during one month. The Spectator be-
lieves that this simply shows which sex
is the more idle.
There is a vast difference between the
fact that girl informs man he is in
teresting and the fact that she is in
terested.
The department of English of the
Normal school here has tied the can to
slang.
The feminine gender OF the genus
homo is divided into three divisions,
women, kittens, and cats, The last
named division so greatly predominates
that the sex is generally referred to by
that denomination.
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It was Talleyrand who said that
speech was given to man to conceal
his thoughts. The Spectator is of the
opinion that man loses that gift when
he becomes angry.
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The Spectator knows man who say s
that we must be mutual" in regard to
the war.
A Browning club has been suggested
for Hays. The fourth dimension will
be studied.
Fred ]. Wagner, custodian of the
Normal school, is afraid that the new
candy store near the school will sell
peanuts.
When love is a sweet velleity it is
not dangerous.
The hard headed business man who
boasts of his practicalness generally
believes that God has less power than
combinations of men.
The principal reason for the failure
of many people is that they attempt to
think morally wrong and intellectually
right.
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The tie of an affinity is strong one,
even If there is no knot in it.
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Fifty million dollars have been con-
tributed by the dashboard Union OF
America to the slush fund of the Whole.
sale LIQUOR Dealers Association tt
combat the spread of national prohibi-
ton.
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1t does not make much dieffirence
whether you like it or not, the efficient
man gets run for his money,
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The Spectator noticed this statement
the other day: ''If all men told the
truth the tears of women would create
another food" Possibly, but if al
women told the truth choas would