The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT

BIZ ROY Z. MoULToN,


No words of ours will ever reach him.
Yea, though we struck him the wrist.
No discipline at all will teach him;
He is the worlds Most Awful Pest,
When you begin, Just yesterday"
Before you get to say the rest
He always interrupts with, 'Hey?"
The world in several ways is curst,
For many sorts of nuts infest it;
But of them all by far the worst
Is he-the Worst is right, you guessed it
The lad who never fails to halt
Whatever you may wish to say,
lie always interrupts with "Hey?"
Life as it is. seems bright and fair,
With frequently a pleasant feature;
Yet surely we could somehow spare
This-well, this most unpleasant creature!
He is the Universal Blight,
Address him in friendly way,
Begin with, We'll, l think tonight
He always interrupts with, "Hey?"
He is the worlds Most Awful PestI
You're lucky if you get to say
He always interrupts with "Hey?"
A Fable.
There was a young woman of rare
grace and beauty who was popular
moving picture actress.
She worked hard and became very
good at being the wife of rich
broker who gave her beautiful neck
laces. but little real loving, which Is
what all true women, even movie
actresses. want. And then a former
sutton, who was poor, but not poor at
loving, would come back into her life
and make love to her.
She got to be very clever at doing
this part, she had lots of practice.
She would always be sorry she mar
ried for money instead of love-money
isn't everything in this world-but she
didn't seem to learn by her mistakes,
because the next week she'd be up TO
the Same thing in new picture.
Finally she's in a scene where
former sutton meets her at a swell
dance and is making love to her in
the fifth reel. He gets up close to her
and shouts in his excitement-you
know the way they do. Well.
She forgot to struggle from him
with panied expression!
OF course her career was ruined.
But no movie actress has made that
mistake since.
Happy Thought.
1t is now officially affirmed that
our coal supply will be exhausted in
$4,000 years and not 5000 years as
formerly feared.
It's Still True
NO creature owns it in the first de-
gree,
| But thinks his neighbor farther gone
than he.''
Thus wrote, of Vice, young Pope
some years ago;
We merely wish to add, But amt
it sou
Happy Thought.
| Try to find cure for your crouch
and you'll find your crouch half
| cured 4t
Monkeys are said to have a vocab-
u1ary of ony twenty words, but after
all it isn't so much what they say as
the way they say it.
Good Dope.
The wonders Of the world, the freaks,
Are few, perhaps a score;
Rarest the man who rather speaks
! Less than he ought, than more.
Foolishness.
| We are ashamed to spring this tale,
| And yet we hate to duck it;
! A fellow gets a little pale
Before he kicks the bucket
Cincinnati Enquirer.
This story, too, gray with age
Your risibles may vex:
A man gets nothing when at last
| He passes in his checks.
Memphis Commercial-App
We might get fined for pulling this.
But still we'd like to note
How sheepish even wise guys are
When some one gets their goat.
Spokane Spokesman Review.
And so it goes. Josephus Jarr
| But just the other day,
He tried to pass motor car.
| He only passed away.