The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-01


The Spectator has no advice to offer
the people of Hays who intend to make
New Year resolutions.
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To the Spectator the idea of nothing
to do is embodied in New Year o US
made out to yourself which you never
intend to collect.
The world is just now divided into
two classes those who received the
Christmas presents they wanted and
those who wished they could exchange
the gifts received.
1t is a woman's privilege to have the
last word and mans the last argument.
After three years study it has been
discovered that blends eat cheese with
their mince and apple pie. Very few
brunettes do. Some university profess
sor should get Phi. D on that.
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The two words which you should add
to your vocabulary if you are to keep
up with the procession are, igothic and
otolith.' Newspapers and magazines
are printing them frequently.
If a girl has several admirers others
flock to. her standard; if boy has more
than one girl they all desert him, For
unto her that shall be given even that
which he that hath not hath.
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Some of the Christmas gifts would be
described by DIR. Winship as the end of
the limit.
The epitaph which Andrew Carnegie
has written for himself contains these
words among others, ''That was damned
white of Andy" The Spectator is of
the opinion that this refers to the mil
lions he has given away and not to
those he has kept.
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The first requirement of the cynie is
incorrect information and the second is
Li1S OCnS1 Cl1dS lie Oc1SO OO4ACCb NOAA-
illusions from what he knows to be
false data.
Live by enthusiasm, don't be driven
by necessity and if you fail, make fail
ure a stepping stone, says Woodrow
Wilson in his latest book, "When
Man comes to Himself.
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If anyone in Hays knows anything or
thinks he knows anything, true or false,
everyone else will soon know it too.
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Love your neighbor but be careful
about your neighborhood is the advice
of John Hay.
Some Hays auto statesmen are having
discussion as to what breed of cats
certain motor cars belong to. From
the name of one of the makes it is not
a biologist but botanist who should
be called In to determine what species
of nuts the cars represent.
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The egoist is the person whose idea
of personal liberty has run to seed.
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From the prominence of the people
and the space devoted to it, Kansas is
/ led to believe that the divorce case now
before the courts in Topeka will give
the state one of its few glimpses of the
popular sacrament of adultery.
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The greatest argument for gossip is
gossip and it can also be said that the
greatest argument against gossip is
more gossip. Queer world?
Some one has said that apologies
oaly account for that which they can
not alter.
For over a year the American Gene
tic Association hat offered a reward of
$500 to any genealogist VINO would
prove that any person of the first rank
of intellectually was descended from
a male line that has counted more thar
two generations to the century. This
society has extended the time to claim
the reward. This is sweeping state
ment. But to illustrate. The father
of Voltaire was So when Voltaire wa;
born, the father of Franklin was 81
when Benjamin was born, of Goethe
81, of Bacon, 81; OF Shakespeare, 45
Milton, 45; Confucius, IS; Johnson, AZ
of Edison, 43.
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Fritz Kreisler feels that too mucl
practice makes musician dull. What,
the matter. Fritz. is that all that make
musicians dull?
Mrs. Alvin F. Miller of .Norwalf
Conn, refuse TO give reward to f;
Sandwich man. who returned 50 ,0O'
worth of jewels which she had lost
The poor man has family and is fac
ing starvation. The newspapers ar
publishing no pictures of Mrs Miller
but the Spectator hazards the CUES
that she married late IN life and tina