The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE.
lrrom Philadelphis Public LedssrJ

dertaken to clarity socialism TOT TINS
feeble intellect says of it: The Peo-
pies Time, foretold by seers and sages.
! Is coming. All friends of humanity
/ wish it godspeed and trust it come, II
! it may. with the olive and balm OF
peaceful evolution, or come II 1t must
F: with the thunderbolts of Thor; with
blazing torch and flaming sword"
Will the gentlemen kindly excuse Us
while we smoker behind the cover of
an. outspread hand? The 'blazing-
torch" and 'flaming-sword" stuff
amuses US. When the rough stuff
starts we crave one boon. 1t is that OF
! taking care OF twenty of the most mill
tant of the Socialists. We'd bid for
fifty. but II might cut into our after
noon and evenings.
There is, we find after careful study
of the matter. something to say for
soviet government: Lincoln Steffens is
against 1t.
| While a number of communities
| have bid for the distinction. Eph
Wiley says the woman who wouldn't
go motoring because she had no bou-
doir cap lives in his town.
! Old Stuff Refurbished.
Once there was Girl who for Five
Years had been Dippy about a Certain
form of the Swivel-Chair CorW; he
had a Cropped Mustache and Dreamy
Blue Eyes and had been labeled Dan
gerous" by every Careful Mother in
Town. That was one reason the Girl
was Absinthe about Him. A Girl al
ways SHES at the Guy who is consid-
cred Safe, but she is just Crazy about
the Bipcds who have had the Look
out -for-the-Cars'' sign hung on them
by the Particular Danes. The Father
OF the Girl was an Imperious Person
who held a Tight Rein on his Off
spring. So he wouldn't let the Party
with the Cropped Mustache Light. As
an Additional Precaution he threw up
q line OF Impregnable FortificationS
about Her and Dug a Deep Moat.
which had no Drawbridge. just outside
Her Anerongen. The Girl Cried and
Moaned and neglected TO Powder Her
Nose, which is in itself a Bad Sign. but
Friend Father refused to Relent. Then
. the Girl, who was not only Romantic
but Temperamental as well. took TO
meeting the Party on the Side Streets.
and. after a while. Friend Father
found it Out. He was Jiggered for n
Minute, but finally Got Hep 10 the
. Flaw in His System. So when the Girl
came in that day from Her Surrepu-
. tious Balcony Scene with Romeo.
Friend Father told Her to Bring Him
, Home and do Her Clinching on Her
own Front Porch. He told Her Con-
,, ditions had Changed and that the
Party was to come as Often as He
I Liked. and that He was TO have the
! Run Of the House. the Refrigerator
and the Pantry. The Girl wept a few
Tears of Real Joy and Rushed 10 the
Telephone. On the First Day the
Party came out TO Luncheon. Stayed
, for Dinner and Remained over for the
After Services. On the Second Day he
!. Dined with the Family. BY the Third
Day the Best He could Do was to Book
a Little Time in the Evening. At the
end of Two Weeks he drew his Blue
Envelope and was pitched into the
Discard with his 'Lookout-for-the
Cars sign badly battered. Moral;
Anybody can Do This Sort of Thing,
but George AIDE Thought of it First.
The word is that the fountain in
Rittenhouse Square still is playing
The column admits a repulse, The
most serious Il has sustained since its
crusade against the Saturday after
noon haircut.
You doubtless noted that seven ]. W.
W. gentlemen, charged with killing
former service men in the state OF
| Washington, had been convicted OF
murder in the second dsgree. Pos
sibiy you are curious as to the nature
of the capital offense 20 1t is con-
strued by petit juries and public senti-
ment in tn. state of Washington.
The Leonard Wood organization
seems to have concede one important
point to public sentiment: Mr. Hitch
cock, who is to have charge of thu
practical details OF the Wood cam
paign, is a business man.
Up to the time man is. fifty he
plays for high, low. jack and the
game. After that he is satisfied IL he
saves mis- jack.
If it is anything you like to do
pretty we'll, you can make up your
mind that, sooner or later a society
designed to prevent it will be organ
lied