The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-15
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Theodore Roosevelt
The Spectator feels it almost needless
to say that he hopes Roosevelt viii re-
turn the favor, but that he is not bet
ting on it.
Maxwell is building music room in
his store so that he will not drive out
the customers who are likely to buy
anything.
Jack London has dropped the Social
list party because it is not radical enough
and will enter more revolutionary
movement according to his last an
nouncement The war in Europe should
be interesting enough.
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Maupassant said that solitude is
dangerous for active minds. There are
many people in Hays who need never
fear lonesome night on the prairie
out here in western Kansas.
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A mixed quartette is generally a so
: prano and three other people.
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If some one says that it will come
back to you and you will be your own
harshest judge, it is compliment, al
though your critic means it to be other
wise. Such a. statement means that
you have aroused someone's idea Of
propriety about what you have done
that should not interest them
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The history of Ellis county as it is
recorded in various publications in the
libraries of the state, never satisfies
the historical accuracy of the old set
tiers who helped to make it. A move
ment should be started at once to pre-
serve some Of these old stories intact.
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A croquette is rolled in -four and
coquet is rolled in talcum.
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Some people would better go unex-
: pressed.
When a woman gets to the place in
platonic friendship that she demands
consistency in the small things and can
overlook the inconsistencies in the large
things, some one is going to get hurt.
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F. E. SIason of Plainville, is the first
citizen of western Kansas to have the
picture of his old model automobile
printed in the Saturday Evening Post.
AS many people read about him this
week as they did of another famous
Kansan, Funston.
"Happy is the wooing that is not
long doing" versus Marry in haste
I and repent at leisure represent the
problem that every one thinks he can
solve. The devil has the only answer
and its wrong.
/ He notices first her complexion, readS
) the ad of a certain popular commodity
and most girls believe that he does.
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There's a man in Hays who appre-
J; ciates culture, because he donates the
Physical Culture Magazine to the pub
lie library each month.
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To look at stunning girl twice is
fatal if the girl is not quite as stunning
| as she thinks herself to be. Many
, loaded flirtations begin this way.
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Homage to beauty does not begin at
the first glance.
5 If you are afraid of condolences you
are afarid not only of other people but
yourself.
Clever conversation does not consist
of quotations.
. Condolences are only for people who
inspire confidence.
How big crack does it take to crack
, the Sabbath?
1t is fine thing TO be young, but it
is a finer thing to be both young and
dignifed.
Persons who tell you to be more
dignifed mean that they wish you to
notice them, but to ignore those below
them.
Unless you are sore at yourself after
a confidence, it has not been one.
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! Those who accuse others of telling
off-color stories are either good judges
: Of the off-color story or are the dupes
of those who are.
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t Woman may be divine, but that di-
4 vinity diminishes according to the
: amount of gossip that she can absorb.
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Clad H. Thompson, the Starbeams
and Kansas Notes man for the Kansas
City Star, pokes some fun at the de-
butantes of this city. The Spectator
caDncf have much rarOE1rSa bacauso