The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY z. HOUSE.
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wish to extend fluctuations to the
makeup" man on the more than es-
teemed Evening Public Ledger. His is
the genius of fitness. For it was, we
take it. no accident that a story de-
scribing the home of the late Jesse
James followed Immediately after the
confession of one of the crooked ball
players and was separated from it only
by Jim dash.
of course. one cannot draw an ex-
act parallel between the career OF the
late MIR. James and the crooked bail
players. Jesse had horse. But they
all worked to the same end.
Surely. and Here's a Bone for You.
Sir-May make application for ad-
mission to the kennels of the Columns
Grammatical Watch Dogs? You say
Mr. Ouirnet used a mid-.ron as pro-
pelling force. 1 respectfully call your
attention to the fact that a mid-iron
cannot be used as 1.-The propelling
force" the same being an Instrument
and nothing more. as you, a golfist,
should know better than 1, who am
not D. NJ.
H. H. H. wants to go on with THE
Lyrics of the Yesteryear" long enough
to enroll Just as the Sun Went Down"
as an entry. But II he remembers OIL
it is:
Zone kissed a ringlet of thin gray hair.
One kissed a lock of brown,
Bidding good-by to the Stars and
Just as the sun went down."
Under the circumstances, we do not
feel we should be justified In reopen
ing the competition
A correspondents suggestion that
Mr.. Harding's feat of disposing of
twenty-six pancakes at one sitting be
played up" by the Republican com
mittee is not wholly without merit. 1t
would be infinitely superior to some OF
the publicity Mr.. Harding has had.
In the connection we wish to con-
graduate Samuel G. Blythe who, in a
| recent article succeeded in comforting
on Mr.. Harding most of the familiar
aspects of a human being. Say what
you will, Sam sings mean human
izer.
But, we go on to say, since the sub
ject intrigues us, had Adelaide not had
the distinction of slight acquaintance
with Mr.. Harding-had she not known
personally, so to speak, that he is a
regular fellow-the publicity put out
by the Marion press bureau would
| have cost him her vote.
The revelations of the week seem to
/ fix with some degree of accuracy the
status of the Cincinnati Reds. With
the Sox trying to hand it to them. the
Reds experienced considerable diff
Guilty in winning the series.
In giving up Mr. cicotte expressed
the fear that the news would be blow
TO his wife. The probabilities are that
Mrs. Cicotte has known it since the
night Eddie was fixed" 1t is pos
sible for a man to conceal 1t from the
world, but his wife always knows.
We adjourn the column for the day
in order that we may go out and learn
what heron eats. Surprising as it
| may appear, somebody wants to know.
Our endeavor to ascertain what hap
! pened to Senator Beveridge, projected
some months ago. leads to disappoint-
ment. Nobody seems to know. We
therefore set paragraph upon the
receding trail of Herbert S. Hadley
Herbert s. Hadley was governor OF
that he might have had the Republi-
can nomination for president in 1912
But Immediately after the convention
adjourned he dived off the side of the
boat and disappeared beneath the still
waters. He never subsequently rose to
the surface.
The lure of the unimportant holds
us in its thrall. Does anybody know
what happened to Herbert 8. Hadiey
Young Mr.. Ouimet is credited with
! "holing OUT in one on a 243-yard
hole, using a mid-iron as the propel-
| ling force. That was a fine piece of
strategy and one we should be re-
| luctant to attempt. We'd be afraid
of overdriving the green.
And that, as well as any other, will
do for this mornings big lie.
The drop in clothing prices does not
swerve us one way or the other. We
/ should have bought aanew suit of
clothes in any event. We have, in
deed. already ordered one. But the
thought that the decline may stir Isl
| lent CAR Coolidge into action pleases
us. We should get no satisfaction m