Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-06-02
DICTAGRAMS

Life in this mans town is just one
dern date after another-with an oc-
casional double-header thrown in for
good measure. People should not be
permitted to waste any time their
own affairs
Speaking of the ssworse than use
less, there is the town dog This
classification includes CANNES of all
grades, mongrel OF thorobred, from
lap-dogs to slop-buckets kitchen
door Sinks.
IF men are to be known only by
their fruit, and if only natural fruit
is meant, there are numerous strang-
ers to be seen out this way this sea-
son. There are just about enough
cherries to identify the trees and the
May drought seems bound to ssget"
all the Strawberries that escaped the
successive freezes of March and April
Workmen just now are putting the
crust on the first "sticko'(?) resi-
dence ever erected in WaKeeney but
yet another is expected to help its
owner and occupant (also7) celebrate
the Glorious Fourth. Which is to say,
in the first instance, "Will the stucco
stay stuck?' and in the second, Some
thing depends on the speed of the
several classes of workmen-
And by this time the reader may be
ready for the further remark that
there ought to be some noiseless and
painless method of Graduating the
common or garden variety of deepest
-
Who invented the s'ivities"? Erin
stein brought RELATIVELY to the sur
| face and the makers of Art Metal
dote on the fire ttresistivity' of their
product. Also, most of the preachers
| of prosperity advise US to get back
| to the productivity of the pre-war
activities.
Many words and phrases have a
run of popularity and then give way
| (tgangway' perhaps) to something
else President Cleveland started sin
nocuous desuetude". Roosevelt gave
US ttstrenuous" and the efbig stick" to
chew on. Wilson was "may I not
teri and Harding is trying to get Us
back to "normalcy''. Forty years ago
undesirable citizens" were advised
to esvamoose'' but now they are tol<
l
come "ring off, Etc, etc.
What's in name? Well, some
thing depends on the form of it some
times. Some names convey informa
ton and some do not. Some name
are common, some are proper, an
some neither; some are masculine
some feminine, and again some ar
neither. For e16Alp1e the papers las
week published the names of sixty
five young men and women of Kansa
who will soon Write the examinatio
for admission to the bar. Judged onl
by their printed first names we ma
conclude that six of them are women
Laura, Grace, Ruth Lydia, Nelli
May and Ruth May. On the othe
hand there are three whose Chris
tan CD names defy classification
Myrl, Orla, and Carol Howeve
they are supposed to be, or expecte
to become men, despite their *
handicaps.
On many of our purchases the wa
tax we pay is more than the thin
is worth. And often, one third O
the total price of an article is sswa
tax though in different sense
These are the days when we hea
a great deal of talk about harves
wages and pre-war prices, many say
ing that a days wages should equz
the market value of three bushels @
wheat. Back in the latter sixties
days harvest wages was somewher
around two dollars and not far fror
the price of one busheI of wheat.
| was about that time that the write
earned his first wages in the harves
field, which was only seventy-fv
cents per day because he was only
helper to man who was not stron
enough to make hand" in the hal
vest field 1t was the writer's io
to ply the rake for the man WIZ
bound the cradle-swath. In thos
days men talked about pre-war price
and wages, just they are dom
now. AS it appears in memory, b.
fore the Civil war days harve