The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-24
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public LedSsr.)

Topeka, Kan.
Already we have word-pictured Mr..
Bryan, sledge hammer in one hand
and crowbar in the other. m the act OF
again wrecking the Democratic party.
A closer inspection of the ''fillum" re-
veals further details of Mr.. Bryan's
armament. He has a six-shooter on
/ his hip and a knife in his teeth.
Meanwhile, the desire of Mr.. Wilson
| to submit the league-of- nations con-
| troversy> to the country moves us to
exclamation. We ululste hilarity, Is
| it we're If the league of nations is
made me issue the country will go
! thru one campaign without believing
single collar with its perspiraticn.
Since golf is impossible in winter
one gentleman over fifty writes in to
learn what he can do for exercise in
cold weather. The field of winter
| exercise for one over fifty is restricted.
About all he can do is walk out on the
| front porch, look at the thermometer
and go back again.
But it is easily possible for a man
| more than fifty to keep himself fit
wifes questions is one of the finest
and most exacting of the cerebral
exercises.
While sitting cross-legged has be-
come one of the national gestures,
| such OF us as travel about a bft notice
That those who wear Isle threads sell
dom indulge in it
Such of the questions as it occurs to
US to ask usually are trivial and of no
Importance. But we have never been
able to Understand why the final
ciinch" in a musical comedy is so
often delayed for the purpose of per-
act.
One may concede the extenuating
circumstance OF the toe-dance without
wishing to see It every time he goes to
musical show. What is the extern
uatng circumstance? 1t is the way
the performer makes her living.
For the first time in approximate
WE'VE years" dots and dashes the
esteemed telegraph, ABE Ruef NAV
visit a cafe where liquor is served
interest In Mr.. Ruef is nominal; but
the Item about him piques the interest
OF some sixty or seventy millions OF
his fellow citizens.
They will all want to know where
such cafe can be found.
In the connection it may, be well to
add that the column, as yet has no
message of cheer to send to the folks
back home The scouting trip thru
suit. The middle west still is fooiing
with half dozen recipes for distill-
ing gin in the home. But the result
ing decoctions continue to disappoint
In the respect that they lack class as
lubricants and convey only the light
est of wallops to the consumer.
Probably the most worried man is
the chief Of police of Jersey City. Vic
tor Berger's threat to sue him for
damages must have struck terror to
his heart.
The plan to assemble the contend
ers for the heavyweight championship
at Tia Juana strikes US as one elab-
orately devised and well thought out.
| Havana would have offered more ex-
pensively embellished bars and better
| hotel accomm odations. but would have
served the same old brands of intoxi-
cants. Tia Juana offers mescal. a.
| lubricant new and novel to most of
those who pulse about the prize ring,
and one which anybody Injured to
wood alcohol may drink in compare
tive safety.
Meanwhile. 4 you wish a tip on the,
fight, kindly permit US to hand you
lone: Lay your last dollar-your ulti-
mate simoleon-on, the proposition
that it will not be waged in dry" ter
ritory.
| A new form of deviltry will have to
be devised for the farmers who make
Davenport, Ia. their trading point.
Whereas. Davenport formerly had five
lady barber shops. 1t now has but one
and that is Of two-chair capacity.
Apparently only the two original ave-
nues of adventure. the postoffice lobby
and the 4:3s train, remain to those
who now visit Davenport on pleasure
bent.
| If there are no objections the Kan
sas coal mining district, which has had
| an average of eleven strikes a month
for the last three years. will be award
ed the pIush-hat mark.
Every wife has the idea that IL her
husband were to quit his job 1t would
be necessary to employ three men to
do his work.
>Eph Wiley's youngest daughter will
be married next month and Eph once
more will be face TO face with the task
of finding a job for a son-in-law.
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