The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-23
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From philadelphia Public LedgerD

Hughey Fullerton. wizard of the
old dope. upon whom we lean heavily
at this season of the year. offers the
opinion that neither the White Sox
nor the Reds are great ball clubs. The
White Sox and the Reds have romped
thru their respective leagues. Great
ness gets it's chief impetus from. COM
parison. What. in Hughey's calm and
well balanced opinion, Is required TO
constitute greatness in ball club?
You have Indicated the most diff
cult task of the column hound" writes
a reader; what should you say in the
second most difficult task confronting
your" We should say the second
most difficult task of those who con-
tribute vagrant observations to the
columns of the newspapers Is that OF
refraining from any attempt to be
smart or funny in every paragraph.
The fellow who reaches for II twenty
five or thirty times in the course OF
every working day seldom comes in
| contact with 1t.
Social and Personal Note.
Mr.. Fullerton L. Waldo has re-
turned from an outing in Labrador.
Mr.. Waldo has not, as yet. indicated
the nature of the punishment he ex-
poets to inflict upon himself on the
| occasion of his next holiday journey.
Statistics compiled at this desk show
that 197.3el paragraphs have been
written in an effort to say something
clever or cutting about Colonel House
of the presidents encourage, 1877
of which have been either partial or
complete failures.
Fifty thousand acres of Indian
| lands are on the market, and the gov
eminent will offer them to the high
4 1. IA EfANA
of operations for the gentleman who
became a land proprietor thru his
marriage TO an Indian lady becomes
more restricted year by year.
| The osseous formation is common
| enough, but in most instances its seat
is the skull and not the spinal coli
umn.
Macmillan Harden says the crown
prince is not the kind of young man
We think he is. However. it may he
we were not thinking of the thing
Macmillan Harden was thinking.
| 1t is pointed out that it is all right
/ for Mrs. Wilson to accompany her
| husband on a tour of the country right
| in the middle of the canning season.
| Those who are in touch with the mar
is unobtainable and that it would have
awaited Mrs. Wilson nothing to remain
at home.
Having made a slightly acerbetic
! observation in connection with Mrs
! Wilson's apparent neglect of her home
| duties. We avail ourself of the oppor-
| tunity to withdraw it.
Speaking of the return trip, Chief
Bender, who has just completed 1t,
seems to have broken all OF the rec
ords for distance.
There is reasonable certainty OF one
! thing: If the plan to induce Hon.
/ Dempsey to accord Hon. Willard a
1 return match is successful Hon. Will
! lard must be kept in complete ignor-
ance of the fact that negotiations are
under way.
There is occa sional inquiry for the
| old-fashioned woman. What, we de-
sire to ask, what became of the one
who reared eight children, made their
| clothes, did the cooking for a family
| of ten and two hired men, MIXED the
cows during the busy season, engaged
! In active management of the poultry
| yard, did the washing and ironing and
kept her house in order?
The purpose of such inquiry? We
| wish to trail a few sprigs OF rhetorical
| the fact that woman has emerged, IL
| that Is the word. from her leg irons
and has her handouts about half way
| off.
While Chancellor Days character
( ization of the presidents opinions as
the unthinking blind egomania of
| socialism" seems unnecessa rily strong
! II is pitifully mild when compared TO
the average Republican congressman's
privately expressed opinion of the
president.
QUESTIONS AND
II ANSWERS.