The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-18
SUNFLOWER PETALS.

0OENF LOW6N Z 11ALS.
Plucked BY The colden Belt Spectator
The Spectator has no advice to offer
7 General Funston.
With all his other traits Villa has the
nerve.
Poetry is a hard thing to get over.
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/ As spring is coming on we are all
poets about something and most of US
never get any farther than the beauties
of Spring.
There viii be no telephone connection
between heaven and hell.
This prompts the remark that the
/ telephone furnishes means of COM
munication to women who are not on
the same social plane.
The people who are assigned to heav-
en- by the Gullible Gossips of Hays
have not yet received their passports
The recall and referendum is a system
of government that is in high favor
with the gossips.
Church members are attacked by
non-church members because the form
er admit that they are not perfect.
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Gossip is a necessity that was once
luxury.
Selfshness consists in demanding
that others live as you think they
should.
People who cannot think or are too
lazy to think call themselves conserva-
tive.
Selishness is virtue when possessed
by person who also has brains.
Those who refuse to take advice need
it most.
People are so easily Influenced by
suggestion that before many years a
Board for the Regulation of Suggestion
will be part Of our government.
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Nonsense flies about like dust and
has the same effect and needs to be
cleaned up as often.
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A very dear friend of the Spectator
handed to him this paragraph: enc
woman's education is complete until
she has learned to disarrange the house
hold mechanism so that her husband
s will have to get busy and forget his
crouch"
a Only married woman could have
S written it as you have already guessed
r but you have not guessed who.
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t Frivolity is often divine, if you think
a the girl heavenly.
e Sisters whose brothers run thing:
). should remember that boys who have
ideas of their own may remember theil
n sisters later.
e Some of US always remain three year!
: old in that we like to show off before
: company, even if we have to get dow1
: on all-fours and crawl around.
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= A real girl does not want you to hell
: her up and down every step.
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You can measure the length of time
L a young man has been out of the back
> woods by how he takes the arm of his
; girl in broad day light as they walk to
4 gether in town.
Il A diamond ring in a store window
will cause any woman to stop.
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New handles for tooth brushes can.
not be bought in Hays.
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Beware of the man with the same
!, naughty story for every occasion.
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The public library has recently put il
the weekly magazine The New Repub-
. lie. A more progressive move could
: not have been made. It is magaszine
of opinion as its subtitle states. d
course, if you are hide-bound and be-
; lieve that your opinion is infallible yor
: will not care for The New Republic
It makes you think and that also is
against it. 1t is clever and so many OF
US are so dull we cannot appreciate it
It is not learned or weighty and con-
? tains none of the stupidity of scholar
ship. In fact The Spectator viii watch
with particular interest its career il
the library of Hays.
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1.-The average mediocre student under
! our present regime gets an almost IN
? canny desire to do things fright. %
. Since success In school depends on do
a ing what the teacher thinks is right,
: education becomes on the child part q