The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-15
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Leds.r.)

(From Philadelphia Public Ledssr.D
We have, once or twice, referred in
guarded sort of way to Mr.. Daniel
n-Hursts diatribe against the mar
ital breakfast. If memory serves, Mr..
| Danielson-H Hurst held the consecutive
and regularly recurring breakfast to
| be the greatest of the strains upon the
| bonds of matrimony. Mr.. Danielson-
Hurst selected the soft-boiled egg as
one of the chief. If not the chief, in
struments of matrimonial dissonance
He held the messy spectacle of its
disposition to be the slug upon the
petals of the matrimonial rose.
! First and last, We have experienced
a good many marital breakfasts. Most
| of them were consecutive. We doubt
=; that the manner in which a man mud
| dies his egg or inhales his cereal has
much to do with his happiness. The
| trouble with breakfast is conversation
Few men and women are able to stand
| the strain of breakfast-ta BILE CONVEX
sation thru period of years. 1t is
| the trial. not only of matrimdhy. but
/ of all intimate association between
| human beings.
Having the tnquiring type of mind
/ to which nature has hooked the de-
/ ductive method. we have paid particu-
| lar attention to conversation of all
kinds during the last twenty-five or
| thirty years. We reach the conclu-
worth hearing before IL o'clock in the
| forenoon.
The best conversation is that mint
ed between the hours of $50 and
o'clock in the evening Practically
i all the clever things are said between
! s o'clock and midnight. Those who
( habitually go early to bed are nearly
always estimable, but very often
stupid. The trouble is they never
hear anything. They sleep while
others think.
1t is exceedingly difficult to fool the
people. One of those who claim to
read the column regularly has discov-
cred that 1t is for Leonard Wood for
president.
! A gentleman in Chicago is compil-
| ing a list of authetic instances. II he
has abundant leisure. we suggest that
he look up the fellow who waited
until he was engaged to the young
woman before he tried to kiss her.
There is much disheartening stuff
1 in the news. We are desolated to
| hear Nassar may have no daisy chain
| this year. Daisies are very scarce.
/ Students are said to be searching the
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| collect only a small quantity of this
! princess of the wild meadows. The
phrase Princess of the wild meadows
is our own. We rather like it.
| OF course. a daisy chain may yet be
NEEDED at Vassar. Neither the fac
ulty nor the students have given up.
| But the outlook is discouraging. Inas-
much as a number of newspapers
thought so well of the item they paid
! telegraph tolls on It, We take 1t the
| people have the matter at heart and
forecast gloomy Monday.
| 1.-THE Wood fund" editoriaIizes the
New York Trib. lis the least suspicious
| of all" Meaning exactly what? As
we understand politics, and we took
one of its elementary courses, a fund
raised to secure the nomination of
candidate for president is a fund rails
ed to secure the nomination of a can
didate for president.
! If the Trib. had said. '"The Wood
fund was the least sophisticated and
/ the most credulous mazuma spent in
behalf of a candidate" it would have
| CALCULATED an entire mouthful.
| We note the complaint of reader
| that a certain chain of restaurants
last year showed an increase of 800
per cent in net profits. but we can do
| nothing about IL and we decline to be-
come excited. We don't eat there.
In thus Diminishing the matter. we
express the philosophy of the average
citizen. He doesn't care what happens
SO long as 1t doesn't happen to him.
We buttress our own troubled way
with a slightly different brand of
cogitation. Ours is the patient resig-
nation expressed by the gentleman
whose friend had advised that the ver-
satile player who was dealing seven-up
across the table had turned a jack
from the bottom. The intended vic
tim declined to become excited. 1T
was his deal, wasn't it?" he asked.
| The gentleman who disbursed the
necessities of life had the deck.
| The indications are that the reader
Of the column who seeks to trade his
| brewery stock for a quart of gin will
| have to put up more collateral. We
believe the search for gin is the most
profound and extensive now being
made by the American people.
Fifty-Thrcc Accidents ''Safcty Week"
Oklahoma. City, June 15.-There
hara DURING