The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-27
ON'SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY e. HOUSE
tFron Philadelphia Public Ledgsr)

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We do not pretend to be able to
forecast the result of the campaign,
bue we think we detect its present
slant. Calm and unperturbed. Mr.
Harding appears to contemplate the
future without heat. Governor Cox is
rushing madly about, dropping little
green there.
It is, we go on to say by way OF
hammering the head of the nail into
the wood. it is the scared candidate
who puts out poison
when men are sufficiently civil
lied" we quote our favorite political
seer, Arthur Brisbane, ito treat won1-
en- as well and as inteIligently as the
| dairyman treated his COW Sophie, this
will be a better werld."
! 1t is only infrequently that we jofrA
Mr. Brisbane in his indignation, but
we are proud TO do so in this instance.
/ The way the men treat the women is
something awful. We personally
know a woman in West Philadelphia
who gets up every morning for the
purpose of giving her husband his
breakfast. And the brute is so lost to
! a proper sense OF shame that he looks
upon the service as one of the obliga-
tions of domesticity.
OF course, the instance we mention
! is an isolated one. 1t does not. We
imagin reflect a general condition.
| But we have no doubt that, in this
free and enlightened country many
other women are subjected to. the
same indignity.
We note the temporary. perhaps
the permanent, passing of Tyrus Ray
mond Cobb as the national hero with
out cornpunction or more than ordi-
nary regret. Tyrus had his For M
teen years or more he collected fame
in quantity lots But We lay one
rhetorical spray upon his fallen glory
as we pass it by: He never permitted
the loose-lipped or the insanitary TO
get close enough to kiss him.
This is the trouble with most Of our
popular heroes. 1t is, as an instance.
the trouble with the Hon. Ruth. The
Babe" lets everybody kiss him
The case Of Representative Burn. Of
Tennessee, Inomentarily engrosses our
attention Representative Burn swells
with pride as he announces thru the
public prints that 1t was letter from
his mother that caused him to vote fors
woman suffrag rather than against IT,
as he had planned.
We don't know that our opinion Ia
important in the circumstances, but 1t
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Der OF the Tennessee legislature who.
having made up his mind on an i'm
portant issue, shifts to the other side
as the result of having received let
ter, shouldn't advertise the fact.
There are, we go on to say. too
! many men nowadays who ara achiev-
ing publicity along similar lines. 1t
is giving the sex a bad name.
The reported robbery in New York
of Miss Suzanne Duval, reputed to be
a middle west heiress, of $4,000
worth OF Jewels arouses our curiosity.
Who is producing the picture and
I about how soon will 1t be released for
exhibition purposes?
There are few middle western
heiresses, but none of them is named
Suzanne 70 be true, a middle west
heiress must be either "Mayn1e" or
L'0O'e' 20
Mr.. Vice President Marshalrs wish
to go back to private life is easy
enough to understand. A normal man
just naturally grows to. dislike the
, private burial lot in which Mr.. Mar
shall has been inferred for the seven
years past.
We wish Mr.. Marshall Joy as he re-
sumes active work on the scenario
of life, enjoining him the while that
TINS c0HlSHi pldIGQ SedTCn LOT a EQOQ
/ five-cent cigar is a fantastic project
and one that can lead only to dieap-
| peintment.
, Nor do we agree with him that q
good five-eent cigar is the thing of
: which the country stands most in
{ need The thing Of which the coun-
try stands most urgently in need is
good cup of coffee. It is the one thing
a man is unable to secure, except In
isolated instances, at any price.
Nor need one draw the line at cof-
fee. The greatest abuse in the country
today is the manner in which good
, food is maltreated' in the various pub
! lie places.
This would be one grand and glori-
Gus country If somebody would learn
how to cook.
sl-~4, Ed