The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-23
ON SECONnTHOUCHT
By JAY Z. HOUSE.
(Fron Philadelphia Public Ledess.)

ut was not because of my looks"
Miss Sophie Tucker is quoted as say
ing to a reporter, that / stepped up
to the top of my profession"
oh. very well! Wen bite. What
was 1t Sophie?
We don't know how il affected you,
but the intimation that the prince of
Wales is engaged came as no surprise
to us. However. we take it as dis
tiuct advance in journalism that no
American-has printed rufnor to the
effect that he is going to marry an
American girl.
Meanwhile, if we are expected to
say anything about Lillian Russell, it
is that a woman is as old as she looks
before breakfast.
Herbert Parsons, it seems, is not to
vote for Governor Cox, after all. He
will be in California on election day.
But it was a narrow escape; almost a
squeak, one might say.
We have no wish to influence Mr..
Parsons one way or the other. We
earnestly hope nothing appearing
herein will be construed as an attempt
Ito intimidate him. But we can't help
for his trip.
AS a Kansas legislator once re-
marked of certain railroad, Mr. Par
sonss journey hasn't got no termini
at airy end
While the baseball Investigation,
doubtless, will purge the game of some
of its undesirable characters, let it not
be forgotten that it has cost this courl-
ST o. nil q
Attell is in Montreal and says he's GO
ing to stay there.
| 1t is going to be pretty hard to build
up this country if gentlemen of the
sterling character of Mr.. Atteil are to
be driven out of it.
We are not. we say by way of intro
ducing a subject .uppermost in the
public mind, one of those nniddie-aged
men who claim, in boyhood, to have
seen Lillian Russell. AS matter oi
fact, we never saw Miss Russell until
1907, and we haven't seen her since
But the claims of the middle.aged mer
to whom we have alluded are SO d.
vergent and the dates fixed for her
! first appearance as a star so wide
apart that we have thought it worth
while to clear the matter up. We
have. therefore, decided to give fresh
impetus to the unimportant by holding
a Lillian Russell symposium.
| The object of the symposium is tt
learn when Miss Russell first went or
the stage. No two of her voluntary
historians agree on the date. What il
your impression as to the year? When
| did you first see Miss Russell. and
what were the attending circum-
stances?
When 1t is matter of general in
1 ferhsf the c0lIir.10 ran alyyavG de-
pended upon to serve the public.
We have commented from time to
time upon the "eooey" quality of the
campaign publicity. But it occurs te
us that the Cox-Rooseve1t advertising
in the womans magazines outmushes
anything the Republicans have con-
! ceived. In this advertising, pfedicated
as it necessarily is upon the assump-
ton that it will sway the woman vote
Governor Cox is shown with his
youngest daughter in his arms and
Mr.. Roosevelt is depicted with his
brood about him.
Ordinarily speaking, the. mush ladle
is a powerful weapon in elections, but
it must be skillfully manipulated. And
while we are less hopeful than some
regarding woman's Influence in poll
tics. we doubt that her emotions car
| be appreciably swayed by the fact thai
a candidate is the father of children.
The Philadelphia reporter who
wrote a panegyric to silent Cal
Coolidge's sartorial accessories doubt
| less did so advisedly- and with full
authority. The man who frequents Q
newspaper office becomes qualified to
write of sartoria1 detail thru intimate
contact with some of the niftiest dress
ers in the world.
What, by the way. has become OF
the old fashioned pivotal state?
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