Show CONFESSIONS OF GASTON My Id idea a of a clever man is one who can cango cango cango go through a screen without le letting in a alot alot alot lot of flies nies I would be willing to vote for the picnic If it could be held on the front porch It is my observation that hot weather Is the most fatal disease with which love has lias to contend I have noticed that when a man says he is no longer bothered by chiggers it is isa isa isa a sign the women have quit inviting him to their picnics Laird who is invited everywhere everywhere every- every where I 1 go and to a great many things to which I receive no Invitation has lived in Topeka five years and has to my knowledge knowl o t nl rn rno edge never spent a cent entertaining r his friends I would like to know know- how Ills His slop manages manage it S 'S d- d ff I 1 often wonder what became of the old old- fashioned sugar coated pill pm Nowadays I notice that it has to be a pretty expensive instrument to Induce people to refer to it as a pianoforte I 1 find that a woman can remember anythIng anything anything any any- thing else but she has to ask a man to find out the score of yesterdays yesterday's ball game The crops have ha been so good In Kansas for the past six or seven years that I I 1 find that we newspaper fellows no longer have to lie He about the climate I am frank to say that I have never killed e much time sitting around Und waiting for a c century y plant to bloom 1 find some comfort in the thought that the recent rains were not only good for forthe forthe forthe the corn but that they have no doubt killed a lot of the young turkeys I have always held that parents bragged too much on their boys and too little on their girls Dodd Dodd Gaston in Topeka Cap Cap- ital |