The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-04

of thought which you hew ont with =
dull ak This here Amy Lowell hadr'
come over from Boston to read some
of her late chopping. Well. after she
had piled up a couple sef cords OF II
they got into a big argument about
whether it was poetry or whether II
wasn't and the fuss about 1t Is net
over yet Miss LoweiT as good as told
one of her hecklers tina he couldn't
trace his ancestry back more than
25e years WHICH is deadly insult in
this couatry. But, being a woman. he
couldn't touch her. That's one thing
they are very particular about in this
country, Aleck. Any time you beat UP
a woman you lose your standing in
society, no matter what it Is. Weiis
the other GROW d. they talk about some
thing else. and you could UNDER
stand them, Aleck. only 1t would simp-
ly tantilize you and wouldn't do you no
xood. When bunch gets together
they'll set around awhile and pretty
soon somebody will say, II had mar
tiui cocktail last week. and then
somebody else will say That's moth
ing / had hottie of beer last might
Then they'll go on to talk about some
fellow they know has 100 barrels or
Scotch in his cellar. and how they're
serving raspberry hishballs at Antotne5
In New Orleans. and maybe about
place in San Francisco where the
punch used to be so good. And then
somebody IL say, And they call TINS
will say. Yes. they cali 1t that!" You'd
understand them. Aleck. but you
wouldn't care nothing about it and
there would not be nothing you could
saw that has not already been said.'
You want to know what I think
about the presidential situation and
who is the leading candidate but
have not got no opinion about 1t.
All know is there are not no cnndt-
date yet that would keep me up later
than 10 o'clock on election night, and
Won know Aleck election night is nay
lone free night when don't have TO
say what I've been doing, or who did
I see that kept me iout so late, ana
how much did lose and who was the
woman. When fellow feels that way
about his free night you know pr s-
| ideBtial election has got so ii is not
nothing to him. Every tune look
over the hist of fellows whose friends
say they are candidates for president
/ remember how L was mentioned
, for governor once and laugh my head
1 off. / hear some fellows say General
Wood is in the lead. but the fellows
who says that all live In states that
has about ten delegates in the national
convention. What ] think about Gem
eral Wood is that the Republicans
cannot afford to nominate no candi-
date who has no sense of humor.
| Maybe the Democrats can get away
with 1t again, but the Republicans
tried 1T once and it would not work
for them. The reason i know General
| Wood has not got sense of humor Is
the time 1 made a speech to them
| Mayflower danes. Well. General
Wood he was on the program. too.
and he set right there within ten feet
of me while / sprung all my best stuff
and never racked Il smile. This Is
no time to nominate candidnte for
president who can't see joke, and
! General Wood won't do. / see by the
paper that this Senator Harding is
| going to be a candidate. You remem-
I ber Senator Harding. Aleck? He is
the fellow who made the keyno ;
speech In the 1916 convention. They
! wanted somebody who would not Of
fend nobody. and ! will say Senator
! Harding filled the bill. Ths way he
| chased butterflies of thought with n
silk Lined net was sight. But afte
he set down the fellow who sat next
/ to me said, who dropped that we6
sponge on this convention" Every
body knowed, bat they was too y olite
! to answer. Adelaide knows Senator
Harding and she says ne is a fine
fellow, which means that he ne err
!spilis anything on the tablecloth and
asks permission to smoke when there
/ are LADIES present. nave not got
time to go over all tbs candidates with
you, but you can see how feel. Any
how. 1 lived under king so long
| now I've got SO l don't mind it. You
| know / always did say I'd rather live
under a king than be ruled by the
| people. Well. I've tried both now. and
me for a monarchy.
/ I don't want you to get the notion.
| Aleclx, that this Is any slow town be-
cause 1t is not interested in politics.
They are a bridge game In this town
| where they play for a dollar point
and they tell me they are plenty of
places where blue chip costs 500.
It's just different; that's all.
Yours respectfully,
DODD.