The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

one of the current periodicals of the
anlusements and diversions OF the
sInall-town community, omits two OF
the maddest of its frolics. One is the
walk out to the cemetery and the
other is the adventure Of meeting the
4:5S train.
| Most of the surreptitious and a
good deal of the regularly organized
love-making of the srnall-town COM
munity is done within or along the
road leading to the cemetery. The
cemetery is the peaceful vale in which
unwarranted intrusion is least likely
to occur. AS is o'clock tea to an
Englishman, SO is the. 4:3S train to q
small-town American community.
The feminine viewpoint always in
trigues U.S. We submit that of Mar
garet SeithaInil, shortly to be placed
on trial in Chicago for the murder OF
her gentleman friend" as being both
piquarit and revealing.
Miss seithamil. it may be. stated
parenthetically. is confined in the
choose cow Il never expected to go
| to JAIL" she is quoted as saying. THE
day I shot him 1 thought I'd go home
and GO to sleep and go back to my job
| the next day. I'll never shoot any
body again as long as 1 live"
At this distance Miss Seithamil's de-
Tense appears to be alright She
! frankly confesses had she known
| there would be any trouble about it
she never would have shot her friend.
! II she Is acquitted, as she doubtless
/ will be, she agrees to curb her homf-
| cidal instinct to the point at which it
becomes negligible. With her promise
in mind. surely no jury will wish fur
/ ther to annoy and inconvenience the
/ lady.
I
Personally. we are willing to do our
| utmost to meet the suggestion of Mr..
w. H. Sill. of Rhinelander. Wis. Mr..
| sill thinks the American people should
keep their shoulders to the wheel and
| their ears to the ground. But we are
| frank to say it is going to he a some
what difficult feat for one of our years
ana physical displacement.
The suggestion does. however. open
a new field of endeavor~ for the
/ human frog. most recently of the
small-time vaudeville circuits 1t Of
fers him opportunity to perform
real public service.
In disclosing the bon mots pulled"
during the worlds series. Ring Lard
| ner, probably thru inadvertence,
omitted two of the most striking We
| aid not attend the series, but we know
what they were One of them was
"Robber! and the other was What
are they payin' y'?.'
It is not until it sits in voluntary
| judgment upon a baseball game that
| an American audience discioses the
banality of its mental processes.
In our casual perusaI of the litera-
| ture OF the revolution We have run
across clue to the present where
abouts of the 'fathead" who formerly
furnished sustenance to the conf
dence operators. He is writing prona-
ganda for the I. w. W.
You don't get the connection? Then.
you haven't read any OF the L. w. w.
| literature.
Being of the reticent. modest violet
| type. we hesitate to offer a suggestion.
| but il Mrs. Wilson is hard-put for
reading matter with which to regale
| her husband. there was a good thing
July.
! We don't remember the exact date.
put Mrs. Wilson can have one of the
s sae mas ma r, iook 1t up; No protracted
search VIII be required. All that is
necessary is to run thru the files of
the paper for July.
The identity of another set of
| martyrs to the cause of science has
been disclosed. We refer. of course
1 to the students of Columbia Univer
slty who did their utmost to discover
whether 2.75 beer is intoxicating.
| Since experiments along that line
nave been numerous. it probably is
| unnecessary to record the fact that
the sufferings of the students were in
vain.
All of which reminds us that guests
at recent dinner in Philadelphia,
Which was attended by many distin-
guished persons. speak very highly
The Hon. Dempsey, we gather from
the public prints. has finally taken the
| precnuuon to have his nasal organs
VIII be under the handicap carried
when he met Jess Willard. and NAV
be depended upon to give his next op-
| ponent a battle
In fact. since Hon. Dempsey cannot
| sing and does not drink. he may now
be described as fighter with but
one vulnerable point.
! Col. Henry watterson is another of
| those who, while depioring the sump-
tuary tendencies of the day, admits
liquor is nothing to him. Who, we
desire to ask. who will be the first
gent to stand up and deplore prohibit
ton on the ground that 1t deprives
him of his "hooch"?
1 Which reminds U.S. You remember
the fellow who could take it or let II
aione?" Well, he always took it.
oregon is to vote on a law making
| the possession of a cigaret a rnisde-
meanor, punishable by fine, imprison-
ment. or both. But the people have
reached the, point at which they are
J impatient of half-hearted measures
! we don't believe much Roadway will
be made against the cigaret until the
offense IL deemed a felony and made
punishable by imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
| The column is one of the most
steadfast proponents of the theory