The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-06
SATURDAY, MAY s, 1916
sUNFLOWER PETALS.

Plucked BY the Golden Belt Spectator.
The Spectator has no advice to offer
the Commercial Club of Hays in regard
to the proposed visit of $50 people from
Quinter, on May 23rd.
There is plenty of advice but there is
no Commercial Club.
oooo
Azel Cochran is evidently very much
in favor of woman suffrage if his friends
are to judge from the color of his new
car.
To see the Easter parade in the union
depot of great city is enough to make
anyone want to take honeymoon trip.
The magazines at the public library
are filed on the reading tables.
oooo
He who processes to understand why
it is that acquaintanceships and friend
ships are allowed to wane between
other persons generally understands
! the gentle art of double-crossing be-
cause he knows so many motives to at
/ tribute as we'll as to use.
5000
Tenor, lawn tennis, campus, hall, and
china painting make a heavy school
program for either Archibald or Percy.
ooOO
The great man is he who has no dread
of finding it necessary to take up some
work that has remained untouched for
long time past, because he has no
such work.
care you fifty-one percent of the
man you think you are?'' asks a con-
temporary paper. Yes, but do not ask
my wife, would be the answer of every
man.
A postmaster is the joke who intro
duces the next joker.
oooo
Fragile, ephemeral, exquisite things
of lace and net that cover but do not
cloak" Don't jump at conclusions,
that is merely phrase from a late
fashion magazine.)
5000
We are immortal not in what we are.
but in what we do; our acts go on for
ever, and it is only fools who think
they can do anything and somehow
avoid consequences, says George Mere
dith in "Rhoda Fleming. -
oooo
The crying need of the hour is q
Society for Preservation of Pulchritude.
oooo
Some months ago the Spectator Of
fered to send>to any address the com
plete membership list of the Gullible
Gossips of Hays for a self addressed
envelope No such request has been
seceived, from which fact one thing is
evident. Those who do not belong are
afraid of those who do.
oooo
''Those who say that newspapers are
inaccurate and constituencies, also say
that the churches are honeycombed
with hypocrisy, that the schools are
taught by ignoramusces, and the public
officials are grafters."
oooo
The New York Times which claims
to be the worlds best newspaper does
not maintain, column of advice stuff
for its readers. The Chicago Tribune
which claims to be the worlds greatest
newspaper, has page after page of use
full hints and special advice depart
ments. The Spectator believes that
this is because Chicago people need it.
5000
The bad roads which lead into Hays
are not playing tunes on the cash regis
tiers of Hays merchants.
oooo
The public recognizes the difference
between reputable physician and I
| quack; between a reputable lawyer ant
shyster, but it does not between
reputable newspaper man and faker
is the lament of newspaper man.
! oooo
There are large number of town
IN Kansas which are never heard of an
there are very few if any which ar
known, that believe the big dailies ar
. fair to them. The big dailies are nor
fair to the small towns in their territor
than they are to the city in which the
are located themselves.
oOoo
Il Every place you go there are prett
girls.
: Henry Edward Malloy told Lyman I