The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-01
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By. JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Pubic Ledssr.)

Will the phraseology kindly move
over and make room on the bench for
new descriptive term? The mys-
FERROUS woman in the Elwell case in
described by one who saw her as .
'mudgutter- blonde" Whatever the
faults of the language. it cannot be
said that it lacks resiliency-
1t was. as we recall it. along about
1912 that cambridge Colby began
looking for a ride. The news from
San Francisco is to the effect that Mr..
Colby possibly may be given one.
The situation in which the Demo-
cratic party finds itself is one of un-
common interest For eight years il
has been administered by one who
doesn't speak its language. It is now
about to be asked to confer the mas
ter degre upon one who never knew
Its password.
What Do You Make of II. Watson.
'Bemused waiting had come to the
young man. He watched the liyid
wizardry of the heat lightning. the
swift come and go of the ragged cloud
pageantry, whose dark masses above
the horizon continued to display them
selves against the CULVER of repeated
blue-white Earrings How weirdly
beautiful and strangei Another nys-
teryi Yes. to be sure Mystery. n1ys-
tery-by day or by night, mystery
ever abides here. A land of astound-
ing caprices, where stern. untamed ma
ture knows nothing of small pettiness,
but is always ma jestical-equiyocal
too-a prodigal besides, Only see, for
example. what living gemmery the
wastrel has now cast abroad into the
night thru the utter ocean reach of
all this prairie vastness. The illimit-
able dark, remote and near, is won
derousiy athrob. not merely with few
slow sparks. orange and emerald. but
with an amazing jeweled drift of them
all space thrilled with them. the un-
starred and black blue night pricked
full of them-a pulsating wilderness of
little lovely fireflies'
You give it up? Very we'll, It's a
quotation from wine O. the WINDS"
one OF the more recent books
The recent arrest in England of a
plumber is noted by the cable. The
are stolid, unima ginative people who
can be pushed just so far.
The nature of the plumbers offense
is not recorded. but it is assumed the
aggrieved householder revolted when
he sent his helper after tools a third
time.
As a means of registering public
sentiment the primary is full as ef-
fective as the photograph.
As we understand the pre-conven-
ton gossip of Democracy. Mr.. McAdoo
| is not President Wilson's favorite SON.
in-law.
Those of us who are for Mr. Hard
| ing hope the feeling of magnanirnity
expressed by Mr. Proctor NAV COM
a 70 he
kune. Mr.. Proctor has forgiven Senator
Harding for having more votes in the
convention than Leonard Wood. Why.
under the circumsta noes, should the
Tribune sob Itself sick?
Perhaps we are devoting more space
TO the Leonard Wood presidential cam
didacy than the status of that defunct
enterprise warrants. We do so in the
interest of the depressed and tight
| Tipped note in human emotion. 1t is
all right for those who were for tine
| general to cry softly into their hand
kerchiefs. but We doubt they should
continue moaning in the market
places.
Meanwhile. we strike the note OF
domesticity to observe that there is
no pride approaching that of a woman
who has a cellarfui of canned fruit
and a chance to exhibit it.
| The Elwell murder mystery. we OBJ
serve in our continued effort to write
something clever about 1t. is proving
SO difficult of solution that II might
have been planned by those who con-
| trived the escape OF Grover BergdoIl.
| We pay particular attention only TO
the unimportant, but we specialize in
noting the unusual. A Philadelphia
woman wears better clothes and has
more of them than her grown
| daughter
| Those who can give the signal OF
| distress are numerous enough. but
| those who respond to II are few in
mum bers and insistent as to the par
! ticulars.
| Sartorial art finds many forms OF
| expression. Jasper Ellington's idea of
| dressing for a party is to button his
vest