The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-04
SURFLOWw PETALS.

Plueked BY The Golden Belt Spectator
The Spectator has no advice to offer
Congress.
To spill the beans Is a great American
pastime that ranks along with base
ball.
Chicago has just one graft exposure
after another. The Windy city will
take cold one of these days.
Don't stay out late tonight" may
yet become an American slogan.
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Some people carry fattery so far
that they burst their suspender buttons.
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From the above paragraph it viii be
rightly judged thatmen who wear belts
do not f1atter.
Is the schooling now being obtained
of such character that it will Et you for
job in June, 1916, or in January 1926?
If the former, it is not worth your
while.
A boob is boob and nothing else can
be made out OF him.
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When eggs are seventeen cents a
dozen, they do not taste quite so good
for breakfast.
He is the kind of fellow that says so
but you never know what he thinks.
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There is man in Hays who says
that Harold Bell Wright's novels have
done him some good. The slam is not
on the novelist when you know the
man.
The Normal School young men have
asked that public announcement be
made to remind the girls that this is
leap year.
One of the SWEETEST social events of
the year took place Thursday evening.
Our enthusiasm and delight in find
ing friends among unusual people is
not always to our credit.
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Dull and stupid people can only see
frivOlity in the actions and words of
those persons who get all there is to
get out of every situation.
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To be called frivolous by some people
is to receive the compliment that you
are at least not like them.
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A dull person cannot be frivolous.
A frivolous person may be dull, but it
is because of his company.
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If stupidity were vice on this mud
ball, there would be no need for hell.
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To a woman, across the street is fire.
quently farther away than Asia.
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To have the best time in your life is
to get to do as exactly as you please.
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There is no fortitude in the delights
of love, it is only with patient love and
| jealousy that this virtue comes.
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The men who have done hard things
want to make it easy for their children.
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Democracy without some kind Of
aristrocacy cannot exist.
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The easiest person to argue with is
an angry man and it is as well the most
futile.
Several incidents have occurred late
ly in Hays which have ''riled" up the
water of controversy. Most of them
have started criticisms Of the United
States. We seem to forget that the
most patriotic thing q man can do is to
criticize his own country.
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If he is able to state the same point
over seven times in entirely different
words and call the seven ways new
angles of approach, he is fully qualified
to be college professor.
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When teacher or preacher Is young
they say he is too frivolous and when
he is old they say he is too cranky.
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The more thick witted you are the
more you will believe the promises of q
candidate for Office.
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Once there was a popular lecturer
who did not refer to the rose or the lily
which Burbank developed from its
former wild state into it's present one
of beauty.
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Edwin E. SIosson says that with
most audiences thing needs to be salt
twice; once TO open their heads AMI
once to Eli them.
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