The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE.
Iron rhiiadelphia Public Ledger)



"I knew they'd marry"
That's what l said as soon as
heard she'd got her divorce"
where there is so much smoke
there's bound to be little fire."
81 think one of them is just as bad
as the other"
We'll, 1 don't know; I think she's
lovely. but 1 never could stand that
silly, smirk of his"
''she is lovely. but don't know; you
never can tell"
mo, you never can tell"
They say her mother never liked
"One of my friends in New York
you know her, Gladys Smith, she's
dear-used to live across the street
from some people who used to know
them. She says they said the mother
place"
His first wife didn't wait long"
mo. she didn't wait long; two days.
wasn't it?"
Maybe she wanted the divorce"
That's one thingI couldn't stand"
I'D be SO Inundated I'd never want
to show my face again. but I don't
! know. There's one thing / could not
stard; wouldn't let any man strike
me-"
''I don't care what Jii.. does so long
as he doesn't flirt around with other
women. I wouldn't stand that"
II wonder il they'll play together
Wouldn't you just love to see them in
the same picture ?"
I'D love to see them, but 1 don't
suppose they will
mo. don't suppose they will; the
managers wouldn't let them"
He's always SO well dressed"
His clothes are lovely, and such
perfect teeth"
'I wonder how old she is?"
he d,,ff
"Hes a good deal older than she. =
We'll. ! don't know; she's no spring
chicken
They say her first husband took it
That's what they say, but I don't
know; you can't tell anything about
I men,"
well, good-by; I've got to go into
town to get some yarn; I'm knitting a
sweater for Bonnie"
IT must go home; the cleaners are
coming. I've been expecting them
five weeks. You can't get anything
done nowadays. Good-by. dear"
We'll. good-by."
"Good-by."
The column is unequivocally for
! Mr.. Hoover for president, but doubts
the value of his sugge stion concerning
| the adoption of a ''forward-looking'
| platform. A little more than seven
years ago the country elected a FOR
ward-looking" president, and We doubt
that it will ever be the same again.
In Which a Woman Reader Reacts
| Adversely.
Sir-A woman reader has taken OK
ception to several things. Don't say
| Every man is a Mormon in fact OIL
at heart. You can only speak fol
yourself, John"
marked all the slams against woman
and there have been many in the
column. A woman reader wonders
where you find them-the column
women? She knows no women who
have unwashed hair, who lack interest
things at serious plays. who go te
Broad street instead of West Philadel
phia, etc, etc, etc.
One good thing you said, and there
have been several. was about the
League of Nations and Lincoln Stef
fens. That about Elsie Ferguson
/ nominating Leonard Wood wasn't bad
! and you had some of US bit on tha
| Whatcom and PassamaQuoddy thing
1 At least, we made the children lool
it up so they would remember it. YOU
| comments in your report of the opera
|
| good every now and then, but unles,
the column makes the acquaintance o.
q few different" women, and it is no
your youth and beauty but brains ant
heart and up-to- dateness that is want
ed, one woman reader will threaten
to stop her subscription to the paper
From pinning together bits in thu
| column we are very sorry for AIDE
laide. We may be wrong. but that il
the thought you give US. Otherwise
the wife of a funny" man may jus
laugh all the time.
No doubt you will read this and
smile, and smile and be abe jus
the same still. For you can well say
| in the words OF Hamlet. what care
for your reactions so long as you reac
the column
A WOMAN READER.
| Doubtless A Woman Reader is righ
in her contentious. But in the matter