The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philsdelphia Public Ledsaf.)

Caught!
Sir-I find this item in the Public
Ledger: s'Mr. and Mrs. s. Fish and
daughter Miss Shirley Fish, passed
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. I.
Fischer and family"
HUGH MERR.
The newspapers treated Mrs. Hard
ing'S call on Mrs. Wilson as a social
episode. And, specifically speaking.
that is what 1t was. But it really
carried much deeper significance.
AS a result of it the Blue Room will
have to be redecorated.
The esteemed New York Tribune in
sists that Mr. Harding shall have a
Lincoln cabinet. The plan is entirely
agreeable TO the column. Whom does
the Trib suggest as the Edwin. NJ
Stanton of the Harding administra-
ton?
Such limited knowledge of history
as we possess was mostly acquired by
ear. Our impressions as to the late
Mr.. Secretary Stanton may be errone-
Gus. But, as we understand it, he
put many a bee on Mr.. Lincoln.
Recurring to the heroes of con-
temporary literature, we suggest no
harsh measures toward the dominat-
ing personality of IONA Gales Miss
Lulu Bett." If he could be sentenced
to serve thirty years at knitting wooden
socks for the poor and needy, that
would satisfy US.
1t is an exceptional woman who can
stir her husbands family to applause.
We have just had a most interesting
talk with the advertising manager con-
corning the taunt flung at the column
by a contributor. You may recall it.
The contrib expressed the thought that
the column had been "choked off" by
the advertising department The ad-
vertising managers retort seemed per-
tinent, and We take pleasure in print
ing it.
you tell your friend" said the a.
M, IF he thinks l have any influence
upstairs, to ask me to get something
into the news or editorial columns
The consensus of those who have
discussed the matter with this desk is
tnat a bee should be put upon Mr.
Harding. Lincoln" they say, ''had
his Stanton, Wilson his BRYAN. WHY
should Mr.. Harding be permitted to sit
uninterruptedly upon a cushion OF
DOWN.
1t having been decided that he
should have one, the column is open
to those who wish to pick a bee for
the president-elect.
The gale of polite conversation con-
tinues to swirl about Mrs. Hardine's
call on Mrs. Wilson. Some are curious
as to what the ladies said to each
other. Others want to know what
Mrs. Wilson said to her husband wher
she rejoined him upstairs. We are moi
supposed to discuss. in intimate fash
ion, the wife of the president of The
United States or the wife of the presi.
dert-elect. 1t is in exceeding bad
taste to do SO and, besides, the CHIEF
won't stand for it.
But were it any other woman, we
could tell you xactly what she would
have said to her husband when, she re-
Joined him upstairs. She would have
said: -"Dou you think she is as fat as
I amp
1.-THE throat-lozenge public" write:
H. W. s., throws up it's hands. Please
go back to your admittedly threadbare
intrigued 1t is difficult enough tc
hunt up the multitudinous shades OF
meaning with which you have en-
dowed that word; but I could not find
EXCHANGED even in the Unabridged
Even a mild and harmless public may
rise and revolt at the employment OF
a word unsanctioned by Webster"
Patiently and without heat we have
many times explained our system. We
shall do so once more. When we need
a word We take it If we are unabse
to find one that tinkles melodiously VIC
coin one.
We know more than a thousand ex-
cellent words upon which Webster
failed to stamp his approval. We have
a list of thirty or forty framed by our
own hands in the shop of necessity
and exigency.
It may interest you to know that the