The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY EIHOUSE.
(From Philadelphis Public Ledgsr)

OF Mr. Hardings ultimate triumph
we grow less and less sure. The fact
that h married a widow who was the
mother of a child, has leaked out. The
newspapers are beginning to refer to
| it in a guarded way. We should not
be surprised to see the Democrats use
| ii with disastrous effect.
There is, to be sure, nothing legally
or morally wrong in marrying a widow.
| If there IS we are, since We did the
same thing, as culpable as MIR. Hard
ing But one never can tell how the
American public will take that sort Of
thing Skillfully projected by an un-
scrupulous enemy. it might easily
prove to be the Republican candidate
undoing.
1T makes my American blood boi1,'
said Prof. Stanley 1. Rypins, of the
University of Minnesota, to the COM
Tpittee of Forty-eight, that one of the
demands We have to make in our plat
form is for the restoration of free
speech
| Rypinse Rypins? The name arouses
our curiosity. About how much
American blood to boil would gentle
man bearing it be supposed to have?
The third party so the paper says,
is undecided as to whether it should
nominate La Toilette or johnson. Are
we permitted to intrude with a sugges-
ton? 1t is that the third party"
nominate both of them.
The suggestion. we desire to add, is
not without guile. If the Republican
party could get rid of johnson and La
Toilette there would be almost nothing
| for which it need apologize.
My Word:
From Daisy Ashford: Her Book"
!; cyril Sheene was thirty years of
age and a bachelor. He was short and
fat and had fair. sleek hair, parted
in the middle, mild blue eyes and a
| silly sort of expression all over his
face.
my starsu screamed Cyril, for
getting in his excitement what a gen.
Etleman he was. and with that he
rushed upstairs to Helen's bedroom. /"
AS E. s. remarked yesterday. Here
it is almost the LIST of July and the
grass as green as. ever"
. Mrs. George Ruth" we quote from
, The Topeka State Journal. wife of
the worlds greatest home-run hitter.
/. saw Babe step into those three
homers in New York in one day re-
Gently. And she says when she con-
graduated her hubby on his work, he
said: We'll, that's nice of you. Now
how about a big steak?
The point of the quotation is that
probably is about what Babe really
+ said. The trouble with the mush
e / writer's is that. they seldom are able
a to lend verisimilitude TO quotations
, from their heroes.
Jasper Ellington is a remarkable
: man in many respects. As an instance.
e when Mr.. Clinton is "stewed," con-
S dition in which he still occasionally
finds himself, he doesn't try to sing
THE Old Oaken, Bucket"
We have noted the fact of the excess
. sive heat in Chicago during the period
of the Republican convention. but we
a have felt we expressed it inadequately.
: Well try again. It was so hot IT wilted
Senator Lodges collar.
; Leonard Woods opinion that candi-
| dates for president should be nominal
= ed in a primary is interesting in the re-
/, spect that it reveals General Wood as
$ a figure almost entirely detached from
S public opinion. OF those who have ex-
pressed themselves, and the number
n runs into the thousands. he is the only
one who seems to feel that way about
/ lit.
h When a man talks about a bargain
& he means real estate. When a woman
e talks about a bargain it is something
= ina store.
: The longest vermiform appendix o.
record was yielded by an actor II
Y what particular line do you excelG
i The corresponding date in histor,
intrigues many persons. 1t DOUBTLESS
will interest them to know that Gen
= winfield Scott Hancock was nomi
]. mated for the presidency forty year
; ago the day before yesterday.
n
j, Buck Kilby says the fellow who for
IS merly healed himself by prescribing al
- intoxicant is experiencing considerable
'n difficulty in recalling the formula
y While the women plan most Of tn
Re parades. the men do practically all o
the marching.