The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-11
It's Hard to Find Something to
Do in Topeka.
Various Ways of DispOsing o.
the Odd Hours.
TRY COURTING IN CEMETERY
One Form of Amusement That
Is Strongly Recommended.
The Man Who Takes Imaginary
Journeys on the Map.

Living in Topeka in an unmarried
state and claiming fairly decent set
of morals is a problem said To-
peka man to a friend the other day.
'I don't just get you," his friend
said.
well, it's just like this. 1t is hard
to find something to do in this town.
OF course, if you like books you can
sit in your room and devour them. and
if you are a movie fiend you can spend
your odd hours watching the films
but if you are like me, a clerk, work
ing all day in hot office. you want
to get out"
you might do like one Topeka
man. Spend your spare time in
cemetery the consoling one suggest
ed. This fellow told me once that
there never was a place that excelled
a cemetery for courtship. He courted
three girls in a cemetery and he mar
ried one of them. They used to go
to nice little cemetery where they
were two stones, carved like soft pill
Iows-one with mother and the other
with father chiseled on it. The man
would sit on mother and the woman
on father. -
Haunts Baggage Room.
II do know one man who has pc
culiar form of amusement" said the
man who was looking for something
new. He goes to the baggage offices
at the depots. talks with the baggage
men. and tries to figure out where all
the trunks are going and to whom
they belong. This fellow will a
dainty steamer trunk and he says he
man picture In his mind cute little
miss, who is going to California for
the winter. A big steel trunk gives
the man the idea of a rotund travel
ing salesman bound for some port in a
tempestuous business. This man gets
all the pleasure through his mind But
I am not that way. 1 have to have
something concrete
THAT reminds me of the man who
gathers all the railroad guides and
steamship company literature he can
find and plans imaginary trips to
all parts of the world" the friend
added This fellow can plan the
most interesting trips you can imag
inc. He goes to Honolulu, China, ia
pan. Russia. any place on these rail-
road maps and has the one grand time
of his life when he finds a new tour
that he has not taken. The passenger
agents of the various railroads in the
country spend hundreds of dollars
each year in stamps trying to get this
mans business but he hasn't been out
side of Topeka for ten years He is
the best little mind traveller 1 know
You might try it.
Now see here" expostuIated the
man who wanted excitement, that
wouldn't satisfy me-
Entertained by Autos.
We'll. there's the man who takes
a automobiles seriously. / mean the
man who makes fifteen dollars y week
some weeks-but who stops every
time he sees an automobile on the
street, looks ii over, takes note of the
number, the style hood, the make of
the car, and who wonders whether it
has a self starter or has to be cranked.
That's the fellow you might initiate
for amusement. Or you might do like
a fellow / know. Call up people on
the telephone, ask them foolish ques-
lions, and listen to the answers. This
man gets more pleasure out of that
than anything he can do. You've
heard of the man who reads the for
rent ads in the newspapers and then
goes looking for rooms without the
slightest intention of renting them.
And the fellow who stands on the
street corner trying to figure out the
occupations of the men as they pass
by on the street. There are many of
them in Topeka You might try that
When you see a wheezened up, amaze
mic looking chap coming down the
street. his trousers shiny and his coat
wrinkled, you can say:
Hes a clerk
"Or if you spot a well groomed in
dividual, whose clothes exude deo-
dorized smells. you have the doctor
and so on down the line. This is