The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-01
SATURDAY, APRIL l, 1916
SUNFLOWER PETALS.
PlueEed By the Golden Belt Spectator.

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When stranger says heis going to |
do something for your good, you look
for the string.
When friend says he is going to do
something for your good, you dodge
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When politician says he is going to
do something for your good, you vote
for him.
When teacher says he is going to
do something for your good, you yawn.
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When preacher says he is going to
do something for your good, you are
not listening.
When you say you are going to do some
thing for your own good, you doubt
your ability to do it.
According to the gentlemen himself,
he will never kiss a girl. According to
the girl herself, only gentlemen can
kiss her.
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Epigrams are of more force today
than epics.
Someone has just said that it is use
less to advertise for lost faith. That
may be, but everyone who has lost
faith in anyone or in anything, adver-
tises- the fact.
Culture is a gigantic effort on the
part of man to keep his mouth shut.
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Some of US are so dull that we would
not recognize our duty if we met it in
the road.
A young man can manage it very
well when he takes out two girls, but
whenhe attempts to take out three,
complications arise and one girl is bound
to get either the best or the worst of
the bargin. This, of course, is &C
cording to the viewpoint.
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Nothing is lost by being ready.
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You can always assume that the
preacher is among those present" at
church function concerning which the
editor of a defenceless Kansas news
paper is asked to print some mush.
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The lazy man can always point out
man lazier than himself. An energetic
man can always show you a man with
more energy than himself.
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A professor in the State Agricultural
College at Manhattan, has sent out
through the regular publicity channels
of that institution a story informing
the farmers of Kansas that it is now
time to plant sweet peas.
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Some people believe that they have
been an inspiration to others when they
have only been a stimulus.
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There are other ways of detecting
dry lips than by looking at photographs.
After all, if there is nothing else you
can do, you can go around making
other people feel less ashamed of them
selves. That is what most of US do
anyway.
Campaign Buttons for Supporters
reads a headline. Safety pins wonld be
cheaper.
After you have done anyone favor,
expect slap in the face.
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A Hays debutante says that she (
thinks twice before she says that she
thinks twice before she says anything.
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When you have made conf1dant of
anyone, the next thing is to question
the integrity of the eonfdant There
has been no confidence unless that /
question arises.
The optimist is he who believes that I
what other people think about himself /
is good.
The pessimist is he who fears that
what other people know about him he
himself does not know
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In one Of the practice rooms in the
department of music of the Normal
School young man kissed young la
dy through one of the glass partitions.
The loud smack announced the fact to
many in the near distance. The glass
was neither broken nor melted.
The British war debt is now S240 per
capita. The New York City municipal
debt is $500 per capita. Kansas has
no debt per capita.
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It is your right as an American citizen
to get spot on the table cloth, but it
is not yonr duty to attempt to scrape it
up with your knife.