The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-26
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(Trom Philadelphia Public Ledgef.I

We took occasion. not SO long ago,
to ask the privilege OF splltting an
initiative or two in controversial as
sault upon a matter which had dis
pleased us We are perpiexed by a
reader of the attractive sex who wants
to know what a-split infinftive Is Our
own experience is that anybody-ca
split noe; but that those who can
clearly and intelligentiy explain the
enormity of the, act may be counted on
the fingers of one hand.
However, you are pretty smart, and
is yours TO command. Go ahead and
tell her.
Occasionally we speak OF the annoy
ances to which this business is heir.
1t may be that you are curious con-
corning the Lost annoying thing con.
nected with getting out a column. II
is thinking of perfectly wonderful
new word and finding that one must
go to the dictionary to learn whether
it conveys the exact shade OF mean
ing one wishes to impress upon the
reader.
OF course, the reader never knows,
but the fact that one has written a
column for many years does not
render him less conscientious in the
performance OF his task.
1t is not only in style, quality and
price that present-day tailoring falls
short of satisfaction. Word from the
clothes are much less palatable than
they were fifteen or twenty years go.
Perhaps you are one of the car
owners who have suffered the annoy
ance of trying to pour distilled water
into your storage batteries and having
much of it slop over. We get from
the Delavan Republican the plans and
specifications of device which
makes the operation accurate and
easy. Drill a hole in the cork" the
Republican goes on to>say, that fits
an appropriately sized bottle. Into
this hole thrust quill or glass tube.
Next, drill a small hole in the neck
of the bottle just about where it swells
out into the bottle. The flow OF water
can be regulated by covering and I'M
covering the hole, which admits air
to the bottle
OF course you will go right on slop-
ping the water over. and so shall we.
But II cannot be said OF the column
! that it does not strive to serve.
At that however, the procedure is
Fstrain on mechanical genius than Du-
mont Smiths recipe for blending
raisins and hard cider.
not that 1t is early. The fortissimo
note Of the robin is that it-doesn't try
| to sing.
We make careful note of the sar-
torial epochs. For the second time in
thirty years a gent may wear the era
vat his lady friend crocheted with her
own fair hands Without earning the
contumeiy of his male associates or
inspiring them to utter ribald speech
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A careful review of the criminal
events Of the country, as revealed by
| its newspapers. conviuces US that
Kansas City continues to be the easiest
place to be robbed IN broad daylight.
You probably noted the Delavan Re-
publican's reference to IAN appro-
priately sized bottle" II you wish to
too snugly. into the right-hand hip
pocket of a pair of trousers.
| A recent round of the vaudeville
houses and musical comedy theaters
leaves us as adamant upon the point
that the feminine foot never is so at
| tractive as when 1t is encased in a silk
stocking and fortified by a shoemaker.
But those who persist in regarding the
/ barred pedal extremity as scenic in
vestiture seem to be making the
money.
Those who belong to the American
/ Legion have been barred from MEM
bership in the, Chicago Painters Union.
We don't know how the legionaires feel
about it, but the Chicago Painters
Union probably is the last orgs nization
we shall attempt to Join.
A woman lives and dies in the f. ar
that unless he draws the blinds some
body will peek" into the windows of
his bedroom and see her husband in
his pajamas.
| 1t is, we gather from a communion
ton received from a prominent Phila-
delphia concern. the heads of the de-
partments who dictate the letters but
it is the stenographers who put in the
punctuation marks.
| We have a sort of conviction that
Amy Lowell, who says she doesn't care
for great many readers. will get her
wish.
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