The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledssr.)

You may recalLfhe firm but gentle
manner in ich/Cornelius Vanderbilt.
jr., once reproved the column. Corne-
Illus. jr.. took slight umbrage at our
r2iilery. and announced his intention
of returning to his beloved newspaper
work the moment his three weeks
leave of absence had expired.
This merely is to note that Cornelius
kept his word. He is back in news
months of his honeymoon with honest
toll And last week he wrote: -Four
teen years ago San Francisco passed
thru the lowest pinnacle of her an
nails"
They are paying young Mr.. Wander
bilt SIPS week for that sort of thing.
We have been fired for less. The poor
man has no chance.
| What" writes am anxious inquirer,
/ sis the best method for having nine
| teeth extracted for a young man thir-
| ty-tYo years old who has had a heart
murHur since he was twenty-one?"
| We hesitate to predicate advice rpon
a superficial diagnosis, but IL, in addi-
ton, the young man drives Henry
carr a, broken windshield, has his
winters coal in and is not susceptible
| to hay fever at an elevation of 5000
feet, he should have them pulled.
| The use of dynamite in such cases is
neither indicated nor recommended.
The publicity which oozes from the
fecund typewriters of the fcorrespo Id
ents at Marion continues to engross
our idle moments. Most of it is poor
stuff, turbid stream of banal per-
| banks of bunk But. once in a while.
| there CLEANS from the breast of the
lcurrent a jewel which lights the pro-
cesses of thought.
We sighted one such in the Sunday
papers. 1t seems the Marion folk call
Mrs. Harding Florence 1t is given
only to the exceptional woman to write
| her Christian name upon the con-
seriousness of her community.
We grant the liberty of wide diverg-
ence OF opinion upon the merits of the
candidate himself. But we'd shoot our
attenuated roll at to upon the
proposition that Mrs Harding is all
right. They wouldn't call her Flor
ence" If she wasn't.
Win Comes to MFR. Sousa's Assistance
Sir-on North Third street 1 iamped
this sign:
/ "A Nickl Brush Mfg"
And in the seven hundred block on
/ North Seventh street there is a
Rum For Rent"
On South Eighth street one says:
| Max Wasa Mfg. Jeweler''
What is he now? WIN.
j. G. s. wants us to give our author
GRITTY for besides in the phrase, "be-
slues MS work as a controversialist. ~
There is, as we have hitherto indicated
no authority for any phraseological
feat pulled in the column. When we
need word we take one. If it hap
pens to be the correct word, SO much
the better.
We Know nSthingt as to the measure
or Mr. Harding's craftsmanship, but
we eredit MIN with one considerable
accomplishment. He has kept the
| New York Tribune, which emerged
from the Chicago convention in laeh-
fymal mood, from fretting itself sick.
We are not disposed to cavil because
/ Governor Coxs newspaper was strok-
/ ing Germany with a velvet glove as
Hate as 1916. We fought the war in
! a limited way and-we recall that a
great many of the patriots had,to have
the benefit of artificial stimulus.
A gentleman named Whiting, who
took off his white collar and went into
the works for a number of months,
INneIe 1dDOTeQ unQeF Inc cover or
anonymity, has written a book in
which he interprets the workers mind.
1t is praiseworthy endeavor, but the
| thing cannot be done in that way.
The only person competent to re-
veal the. workers mind is one who,
with the average workers intellect,
| emerges from a background of pow
erty and toll to take up a workers life
and follow it. And the chances are
he couldn't write a book about it in
a thousand years.
The trouble is that those capable
| of writing of the underside of life
must get its color vicariously.
+ There are various ways of wasting
time. One of them is to spend II col
oring a meerschaum pipe.
| A man has little som ething ON
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