The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY z. HOUSE
tFrcn Phfiadeiphia Public Eedgsr.l

Lady ASLOT Is a DIT discouraged dS
to the potency of her sex in political
matters. We counsel patience on the
part of Lady Aston. At the time wom-
an was endowed with the ballot we
could not foresee the millennium much
before 1924. We should Is1t be sur
prised If it were delayed until 1925.
That is to say, unless the law pro-
hibiting the use of coffee and tobacco
in any form is sooner written into the
statutes. The millennium will, of
course, start, If that is the proper word
to use in the. connection, as soon as
that bill Is signed.
For the most part we leave the dis
cussion of the British and their af-
fairs to the gentlemen south by east
We do so partly because of ignorance
of the British ana their affairs and
partly because we believe there are
certain insular and provincial matters
having to do with the people of this
country which should be discussed on
the editorial page of every newspaper.
But there is one achievement of the
British-perhaps it is a gift rather
than an achievement-to which we
bow in humble admiration. We refer
to their pronunciation of the word
extraordinary,
We were one of those tremendously
entertained by the recent Philadelphia
speech of Ambassador Geddes. On
the lips of Ambassador Geddes. as with
most of his countrymen, the word lex
traordinary'' becomes a liquid pearl Of
speech dissolving in the glow of a
sunset.
All Right, but Don't Do 1t Again.
Sir-You say For instance" Very
well:
A limerick is easy, TIL say.
When once you get in that way.
1t does not take much
OF a poetic touch
To turn out three dozen day:
&C.
/ G. w. D. wants to know If the ap-
pended excerpt from THE Little War
rior' is true: We are willing to leave
1t to Mr.. Wodehouse, who wrote the
book. Mr.. Wodehouse probably has
projected more musical comedies than
any living man of his years and ought
to know. He says you've got to
make allowances for managers. They
are the victims of heredity. When a
burglar marries a hat-check girl their
offspring goes into. the theatrical BUSH
ness automatically, and he can't shake
off the early teaching which he i'm
bibed at>his fathers knee"
And that reminds us. We have not
been favored with a complimentary
copy OF the book; we get nothing for
printing this notice of it. But we re-
gard THE Little Warrior as the best
light novel of the year, if not the best
of any year.
Likely we are no Judge. We have
the ''lowbrow'' type of mind. We are
one of those who can drink their in
tellectual fill from a fountain of
triviality. So, don't buy the book on
our account.
Golden thought for Subscriber"
Your opinion in the connection is re-
garded as unimportant at this desk.
Meanwhile. for the benefit of Sub
scriber" and others who wish publicly
to Gaa1re. V.tf the column, it has been
necessary to formulate certain rules
which are here enunciated:
No letter Of abuse, or in criticism,
containing more than 200 words will
be printed.
No letter of abuse, OF in criticism.
written in pen or pencil will be read.
No complimentary letter written in
pen or pencil and running more than
four pages of manuscript will be read.
The right to Glide all extraneous
WOIuS dllO PHRASES anu 10 correct eT-
rors in grammar and spelling, where it
us desired to make such correction. is
reserved.
Typewrite your stuff and make 1t
snapRy: D%your JOB Of "skinning
way into the column with a stupidity.
We reserve the right to write all of
the stupidities which appear herein.
There is some acerbetic talk con-
corning the gent who paid $27.50 to
see the Dempsey Brennan fight. We
should be more impressed by it if we
could lay hand on the $3.50 we saved
by staying away.
The return of Charles Evans Hughes
to the supreme bench is forecast. In
the event that you had forgotten the
episode, Mr.. Hughes is the eminent
jurist who turned the bird in hand
loose before locating the one that had
been singing in the bushes.
Buck Kilby spent the day yesterday
apoIogizing to his friends. Despite Mr..
Kilby's efforts to keep the matter
quiet, the news that he paid only $40
for his new overcoat leaked out
But. of course, Mr.. Ki1by's humilia-
ton is as nothing as compared to that
of the woman who is-first forced 70
admit she isS wearing a pair of 50
shoes.
George Matthew Adams
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