The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-04
SUNFLOWER PETALS.

PIucked by the Golden Belt Spectator
The Spectator has no advice to offer
the individual who called this column
''Dandelion Leaves at Hays dinner
party last week.
Dandelion comes from the Latin
meaning lions teeth. Thanksl
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1t is surprising how little other peo-
pie are interested in your affairs when
you tell about them yourself and how
vastly interested other people are in
your affairs when they tell about them
themselves.
No matter what the provocation,
there is one person who it is never
best to contradict Who is it?
5000
About all the pleasure some people
get out of life is the fact that they
know so well that some people are
merely put into the world for other
people to kick and they then proceed
to get in the way.
5000
Carnegie will die poor reads a head
| line He has only twenty million dol
lars left now. He has given away
about three hundred fifty million. This
| fact should console US. Christmas
shopping viii not leave much over
twenty cents and three dollars and
half will buy several books which our
friends won't read too.
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The four or five couples who COM
pose the younger unmarried set of the
Normal School faculty have been so
feted and fed for the past month that it
seems as if it had become a habit
/ 5000
Thanksgiving vacation emphasized
anew the fact that we have vacations
so that we can rest up when we start
to work again.
I To accomplish something by a terrific
showing of energy after putting it of,
is not sign of greatness but near
greatness.
Men are creatures most of whom
have ambitions above their abilities.
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ITO pass from hearing literature to
reading is to take a great and danger
Gus STEP" says Robert Louis Steven
son. What has become of the old fash
toned practice of reading aloud? How
/ little docs II 70 I,
the eye? How many of US ever hear
the "chime of fair words" or the
march of stately periods"
5000
1t has been recently said that the
most influential women in the United
States were Jane Adams, Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, DIR. Katherine Bement
Davis, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, and
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Hon
estly now, how much has your life been
influenced by them? No, wait minute.
What about the ideas for which they
stand? Yes, different answer.
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The reason that success does not go
to the head of some people is that there
is nothing there to go to.
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A Hays husband is holding out well.
He took his wife some flowers the other
day, just an ordinary week day.
Someone remarked the 9th day in
the hearing OF the Spectator that
man and dog came in with dirty feet,
made themselves comfortable by the
fire and waited to be fed.
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Henry Ford seems to have placed q
self-starter on his automobile and his
peace stunt at about the same time.
About all some men do at home is to
occupy the bathroom and sleep a little
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Rabbi Leon Harrison recently said
that six books would educate q person.
The books named were: Flammarion'
Wonders of the Heavens, Geikie's
primer of Geology" Taylor's PRINT
tive Culture Herbert Spencer's
Study of Sociology, Leckey's His
tory of European Morals" and Clarke's
1.-The Ten Great Religions of the
World" The Spectator is frank to
confess that he has read only three OF
the books named by the learned Rabbi
Without saying q word about his claims
to an education the Spectator is also
frank to say that he as yet has not
asked Mr.. Maxwell to order the other
three.
AS the home becomes more comfort
able It becomes less attractive. Every
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