The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.)

| In the matter of preparing poor
meat with an alibi, no method seems
SO satisfactory as that of converting
I it into hamburger steak.
Men are given medals for heroism,
but a woman is forced to content her
self with a plain gold ring for the
third finger of her left hand.
The women are all right, heaven
bless EN-, but those who have rooms
to let prefer to let them to men.
The man who eats with his knife
creates comment in some localities and
the one who eats with his fork creates
comment in others
1t is not surprising that young men
go in for football and other athletic
sports. The field of athletic sports
is the only one in which a man can
achieve distinction without having it
said of him that his wife made" him.
We feel Mr.. Hoover's insult to the
Republican party less keenly than
Senator Penrose. We do not recall
that Mr.. Hoover ever pretended he
had to hold his nose when in its pres
ence. And that is more than can be
said for certain gentlemen who are
now asking for the nomination for
pItSA0Snb dL Tic VI tie SCildIOA .
party. The senator's and ours.
In a certain western state with
which we are familiar, Mr.. Hays, titu-
lar head of>the Republican party, has
appointed three men to assist in the
draft of the next Republican platform.
One of them makes no pretense of
being a Republican, another has no
political faith or creed except that Of
| expediency The third has been a
Republican only since 1916. If Sena-
tor Penrose is going to ask US, as a
buck private in the rear rank of the
Republican party, to brook that in
suit, he must not be disappointed if
we fail 10 lash ourself into a fury of
Indignation over the alleged innuendo
cast by Mr.. Hoover.
Eph Wiley says he never worried
much about the japanese. Mr.. Wiley
says it is his custom to worry very
| little about any race, the masculine
members of which are willing to do
housework for living.
A man can get along all right with
a hero, but il he is going to amount to
| much he must have a heroine.
Every artists conception of Father
Time seems to be that of a somewhat
slatternly elderly man with two but
tons off his undershirt. We. there
fore, suggest that the next artist who
draws a picture of the old gentleman
replace the two missing buttons.
Due to the fact that there is a bot
tie of liquor hidden in many of them,
the interest in cornerstones never was
so acute as it is at the present mo-
ment. The time is coming when men
will cheer cornerstone as they now
cheer the flag.
Mrs. Tug Watts says the crime OF
the Indiana man who shot his father
ten times cannot be too severely con-
demned. Mrs. Watts holds, justifiably
as any father should be shot.
The column is disposed to award the
medal for capacity to assimilate pun
| ishment to John McBee. who prior to
the advent of the motor-propelled We
hicle drove q hack for thirty-seven
years.
The extenuating circumstance is
| that the husband who is "henpecked"
never knows it.
1--WE used to know the Bohemian
set very we'll" said Leila Constance
Featheringham the other evening.
but they dropped us as soon as we
quit serving meals"
No woman can pass a florists shop
without recalling the fact that she
hasn't had a bunch of violets since
she was married.
1t is difficult to sell the average
American citizen a $50 gold piece, but
/ it is comparatively easy to induce him
| to sign a contract to catch driftwood
on the shores.