The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(Ffom Philadelphia Public LedgerD

1
Gen. Leonard Wood. who thru
somewhat more than eighteen months
OF weary war sighed for action. has his
wish. He has been assigned to clean
up Omaha. For purposes of compar-
ison. Gen. John ]. Pershing lit in a
soft" spot.
Omaha and Kansas City are among
the few remaining oitadels inside the
haps. has the tougher citizenry; Oma-
ha the better municipal government.
But Omaha is more emotional than
Kansas City and more to be dreaded in
a sociological or economic crisis.
Mrs Wilson. while still concerned
as to her husbands condition. has
, been relieved of anxiety on one point:
she left the gas burning under the
hot-water heater when she went away.
Anxiety concerning the matter of
and the fear there may be light
burning in the cellar spoil half the
trips women take.
Announcement that the army is de-
mobilized has been made. Your sus-,
picions are correct. 1t was most re-N
markable coincidence. We We're
thinking of precisely the same thing
OF Whlcn you were thlnklnS.
The esteemed New York Herald
ventures the opinion that the verdict
| of Ohio's courts in the matter of the
referendum asked by the "wets" is
awaited with great interest. Not by
US. not by us. We don't know much,
but what we do know is that them
pears is ct.
! The Trifilng of Raymond MeVitt.
| Bv Dodd CASTOR.
Author of "The Mashie Curve" Gala
bash or Meerschaum." "Purl Two"
The Osculatory Gentleman"
Etc, Etc.
! Illustra lions by the Author.
Chapter I-Continued.
| The McVitt car did not crush the
| fair-haired heroine who read the pre-
ceding episode in The Trifling of
The scream of a woman spectator was
wasted energy Those who closed
their eyes went to unnecessary trouble
Amos stopped the car in ample time.
The little tyke, went skipping on
across the street in her quest for an
4 ali-day sucker, unaware of the fact
that she had been the center of a near
tragedy.
The furry quickly subsidized and the
| McVitt car proceeded up Lombard
avenue to its destination. which was
the four-story Murray Building, near
Ninth
Raymond McVitt took the elevator.
I to his office on the third floor. first
| counseling Amos to seize and destroy
the baseball with which the boys of
the neighborhood were playing on a
vacant lot adjoining the McVitt home.
Chapter II.
Marie Matlock had been born OF
Door and humble parents. who nanred
her Mary" Her mother called her
| ''Mollie" and her brothers referred
to her as>"Moll.' But she picked out
the name Marie" because II was more
| stylish and signed all her letters that
way. She wrote couple of letters
every year Half the people she knew
believed it to be her real name. After
she had picked it out she saw another
name in her book which she liked
much better. but 1t was then too late
| to change. Marie had a book II had
been given to her on the occasion of
the anniversary of her seventeenth
! birthday.
The Matlock family was poor, but
II was not proud. 1t would take any
thing offered to it. 1t went even fur
ther. or farther. whichever it is. 1t
was willing to waive all preliminaries
| in the matter of property. if you get
what the author means.
At the moment the story opens Ma
rie was trifling with two buck privates
and a sergeant Marie, far as she
was able, thru the limited capacitx
for it, to entertain any sentiment n
the matter favored one of the buck
privates. Her mother was strong for
the sergeant,
"Sergeants make more" said Mrs
Matlock. with a peculiar toss of the
head which the neighborhood had
come to interpret as signifying both
|, determination and resolution.
4 (To Be Continued.)
Your classification of Fosters
hat" writes r. J. N. reminds me that
on recent transcontinental journey
I noted in the yards at Albuquerque a
switchman who were a derby perched
just above his left eyebrow But. 1
assume. no class or calling runs abso-
lutely true to type"
AS to that. we once new a brake
man who came to breakfast wearing a
dinner Jacket, but when we're looking
for brakemen we pick out the fellow
! whose neither limbs are encased in
pair of corduroy pants.
On the whole, we are inclined to
award the gold-headed cane to Sena-
tor Borah. The senator believes talk
about the League of Nations is respon-
sible for the present Industrial unrest
The cane is awarded to the senator
on two counts. The first is on his
discovery OF the bacilli. The second
is that he probably did as much to
spread it as any other man.
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