The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY X. MoULToN.

The Traveller.
When the Teller who's travelled around
And flops himself down in our best easy
chair;
1t Is surely pleasure to gossip with him;
He's welcome to us as breath of fresh air.
He's been round the world and he's broad
He thinks and he speaks with a vigor and
He is active in mind and he's active in
limb;
He has brushed up against all the races
and sects:
And there's not thought that is narrow
in him.
He has seen all the best and he's seen all
And he's full of ideas that are really worth
while,
Which he tells you about in rare breezy
He has got it, four ways for the dinky old
deuce,
On the Teller who never has Travelled a mile
He is not at versed in the petty affairs;
The ne VS. of the big world events he will
scan,
And he knows what life means, for he's
seen it himself
In other words. travel has made him A
MAN.
Signs of the Times.
The two-cent stamps are a lighter shade
of pink than formerly, on account of the
dye shortage. But they will carry the
dunning letters with the same lightning
like rapidly.
An eastern judge wants persons found
guilty in divorce suits sent to prison. But
to build prisons that large would take
more money than any state has to spend.
of chewing gum is used in this country in
a year. Hardly thought that much would
keep the stenographers going.
A doctor says 81 a week is enough for
food If your wife knows how to cook. But
doc, they don't grow that kind of wives
Professor Sadler says marriage is some
times crime. Well, if it is, It generally
carries with it sufficient punishment
Women in Sweden have been given the
right to propose marriage but they
support the young men in the manner to
which the latter are accustomed:
Russia will try to curb the revolutionary
spirit by introducing baseball. Anybody
who wants to be an umpire in the Russian
league is welcome to the job.
Front Porch Conversation
They gather every pleasant night,
When other people want to snooze,
And discuss with all their might
MI, The latest things in hats and shoes.
They criticize the brand new gown
That's being worn by Mrs. Jones'
And gossip about Mrs. Brown
And her new hair In piercing tones.
They talk of novels that they're read.
And tell of rumors of divorce:
They dish up all their married friends;
They couldn't leave out one, of course
t They review all that has occurred
Since they last met and Judgment passed.
And tell with horror all they've heard
! About the widows, sod and grass
| They tell what everyone has had
For dinner every day that week
There's not fashion fad
OF which they e'er forgot to speak.
| They tell what happened long ago
| And what will happen ages hence,
! Until it sometimes seems as though
They can talk anything but sense.
And Looks Over the Top of His Specs So
They Won Wear Out.
| Jim Jones sure Il stingy man.
The tightest of the tight;
He melts the tin off every can
I And stops his watch at night
-Iittsburg "Postmarks."
/ That he's tight wad you'll agree;
| We speak of SiIas Main,
Who takes all sacks to grocery
| To have them filled again.
Butler (Pa.) Citizen.
| The tightest man in all the world
| Is Jasper Blue, We think
4 He makes his wife write shorthand
So to iuE