The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-31
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
What a Dollar Used to Do.
BIZ ROY K. MOULTON


Back in the old burg a dollar was
quite a piece of money and it made
regular noise. Nowadays it doesn't
make any more noise than a feather
falling on a plush carpet in the house
next door.
Regarding eats. a dollar used to
speak with some authority. We re-
member when the members of our
frat back in the. old town decided to
give dinner party. There were to
be forty at the party, and the COM
mittee went and laid the plans before
Lem Higgins. proprietor Of the o. K.
restaurant. The menu was to be
rather elaborate for our town, includ-
ing stuffed celery, grilled chicken, en-
dive salad, tri-colored Ice cream and
coffee.
We asked Lem if he could do it for
81.
Lem figured on it for a day or two
and then told the committee he could
furnish the layout for sails. but he
couldn't do it for a cent less Il would
like to accommodate you boys" he
said, but the chickens alone will cost
me nearly 81. altho raise them my
SELF" .-.,- r---.
He didn't know that we meant 81
a plate. He thought the 81 was for
the whole feed. ff
When we paid him the $50 he re-
tired to private life and gave the res
taurant to his nephew.
A description of heaven is to be
written and published by a man who
has made practice of writing mining
prospectuses. s"At last" says Walter
Pulitzer. I'VE shall have the real
thing"
Ben De Casseres says one can get
all one wants in life if he can learn
to do without the things he can't get.
One of the first developments of the
so-called peace is the temperance of
Harry Thaw in his old place on the
first page. What dye mean, peace?
Count Hohenzollern and friend wife
have taken a modern castle in Hol-
land and will have their old Potsdam
furniture. That tremendous sigh of
relief which sounds like the first s'bla"
OF Kansas cyclone comes from the
aged Count Bentinck. I'm
Any fellow who smokes those six
cent cigars can testify that there was
a bumper hemp crop in this country
this year.
We can't figure why some restaur-
ants insist upon mixing cement with
anything as cheap as cornmeal is.
One of the problems of peace is how
to prevail upon the dear girls to stop
knitting.
What appears to the Mcpherson
Republican" man as frenzied finance:
~. T. Wedle. of southeast of town,
day, which he sold. On his way
home he stopped at the Bonham sale
and bought nine head of hogs, paid
for them out of the check he had re-
ceived for the turkeys. and had a bal
ance of $3.50 leN."
A scientist says every woman should
have a certain number of hours of
play every day. Has this scientist
never heard of our Neighborhood
Whist Club?
A colored regiment was marching
by the other day and somebody
yelled: Hello, George!'
Ninety per cent of the men turned
to face the speaker and showed their
teeth and grinned.
Brother Philander," said 1 to our
head deacon the other evening" "I
haven't very much use for Brother
Sly's brand of religion. 1 would hate
to take my chances on getting into
heaven with it." 81 know it." an
swered Philander, but Sly always
comes forward with gocdly contribu-
ton, even If his religion is little off
color. So between Sly's money and
your prayers We manage to keep the
church going" 1 don't like Philan-
der's way of explaining things.-The
Osborne Village Deacon.
Evidently Count Reventlow, war ex-
pert Of the '"Tages Zeitung," is hard
of hearing. He hasn't heard that war
experts have gone out of style and
that Christmas dinners in Paris are
strictly passe.
Reported that Ludendorff is to sail
for the East Indies. Bum voyage.
A HERO EVERY DAY