The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-25
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
The Real Forum.

Inc hatfoh great problems are settied at
Over the back yard fence,
And mighty news items are flippantly
Over the back yard fence.
They peddle the rumors and pass the re-
They argue religion and music and sports
Over the back yard fence.
There is no appeal from decisions they
Over the back yard fence:
They argue the case inst for argume; is
Over the bck yard fence.
This court is in session both morning and
night.
While victuals are burning, until they're
Il sight.
And time counts for naught when they get
started right.
Over the back yard fence.
They rake the whole neighborhood with
Il fine comb.
Over the back yard fence;
| They tell of the skeletons in every home,
over the back yard fence.
1t will ever be thus as the decades roll by,
And the centuries, too, unless histories
And until the millennium gossip will fly
Over the back yard fence.
Uncle Abner.
Mrs. Anse Judson says she is sure
if all the women in this country
would go bareheaded. business condi-
tions would be a good deal better.
new hat yet, but he told her that
business was the worst he ever see it
in his life and the whole blame stu
alton was gOin' to smash in about four
minutes.
1t seems as tho somebody could
write show where the hero don't get
rich in the last act.
If there is anything that makes a
| Teller feel that he is growing old fast,
| it is one of them big calendars that
show only one date at a time. Every
! time he looks at it he has to yank off
about five days to catch up.
Grandma Bibbins is beginning to
knit yarn mittens and wristlets, which
/ is sure indication of a long, hard
winter
There amt nobuddy in this world
who is wiser than the postmaster in
a small town, onless it is the tele-
graph operator.
There amt no vacation that lasts
| as long as it orter
| Every fellers kid is the greatest
kid that was ever born. and if you
don't believe it, ask him.
The best way l know of to die poor
is to git involved in a lawsuit over a
line fence.
There is only one thing that is
harder than Shawn the back of your
neck, and that is to disengage a sheet
of sticky fiypaper from the bosom OF
yer trousers.
| EDITORIALS
Everything is divided equally in
this world The rich man has the
twin-siX and the poor man has the
six twins
You can always tell a suffragis
but you can't tell her very much.
One thing we would like to know Is
where they get enough stale peanuts
to last thru an entire circus season
Since Kentucky went dry we re
fuse to believe that anything is i'm
possible IN this country
An anxious wife complains thai
time he comes home, but if he only
smells of it, it will never hurt him
Civilization has accomplished
something, at least. Swiss yodler.
are not allowed in vaudeville any
more.
Most of the experts we have heard
proposing ways to end the war dom
know whether Duda Pest is a patent
medicine, a breakfast food or a sub
stftute for gasoline.
man who starts buying a house
and lot on the installment plan lays
heavy burden upon generations o.
descendants vet unborn.
Some people hate to go to thu
theater because it breaks up an eve
ming Sc.
There are two mighty peculiar
kinds of people in this world Mer
and women.
Some sons go to college to get
liberal education. while their father
stay at home and receive an educa
ton on liberality.