The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
fFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

We know a coed story on an 1rlsn-
man. We cannot tell it. because it Is
the type of story we find great diff
Guilty in calculating. But we can indf-
cate il and assume the liberty of doing
SO. An Irishman with something ION
his hip strolled nonchalantly into an
open cellarway. He fell with splin-
tering crash, and as he struggled up
right from his recumbent position he
felt the trickle of i liquid substance
upon his bare skin. MY God" he
said, as he set about to determine the
extent and details of the accident, II
hope it's blood.
The limp and hating projection of
the aforesaid story is not without it's
objective. We seek to demonstrate tho
fact that there is one good Irish story.
For centuries the Irish have been the
butt of the worlds japery. But, with
the possible exception of the one to
which we have alluded, no really good
story has ever been coined at their ex-
pense.
We have great respect and admira-
ton for the Irish. But to our notion
there is, no sadder or more painful
spectacle than that of an actor purvey-
ing comedy thru an Interpretation of
! the so-called Irish type.
"A man EICatS over MS DfOWSSS IN q
dozen fields of endeavor, but
woman's proudest boast is that she has
| a high instep.
1t is generally admitted that Mr..
! Hoover is not an orator, but others of
his excellent and admirable attributes
still are in controversy.
What Don't Like About My Husband
His flash of tem-~er when some-
thing annoys him.
His calm superiority when some-
thing annoys me.
| His snoring
| His untidiness.
His insistence upon my tidines-.
| His everlasting talk.
| His interest in nothing but shoY
His awful playfulness when there's
| a chicken" in the house.
His horror If I show any spunk
His willingness to allow me to face
the burglar
His assumption of all the bravery
after the danger is past.
His acceptance of everything but re-
sponsibility.
His constant looking for an excuse
to stay out all night
His perfect judgment.
Welded B.
Otherwise, we take the liberty of
| assuming the fellow is all right
However, we congratulate Welded
B. not only as to the quality of her
discernment but on her choice of Il
weapon as well. All that is required
in the way of equipment by those who
| wish to expose the male of the species
to the jeers of the assembled audience
is a pin and the courage to insert ii.
| Mans vulnerable spot is not. as tradi-
ton has it, the heel. His vulnerable
spot is his self-esteem. 4
st am not yet twenty" writes an
unvalued reader who excoriates the
column on the ground that it is stu
pid. We should have suspected
much. That particular attitude is
very common among those who are
| mot yet twenty"
1t is not until a man is forty or
forty five that he qualities himself to
learn by realizing he doesn't know
anything, valuable or important.
1.-THE railway board agreed to give
the railway men living wage" writes
an excited reader. Get that-noth-
ing but IN EXISTING wage? Have they
passed and the women weep, the chill
dren grow wan and die of starvation"
We cannot speak authoritatively
| concerning the wives and children Of
all the railroad men, But we saw the
four belonging to the railroad man
of our family-Brother Bits kids, to
| be exact-a time ago. They were well
dressed and seemed well fed. So far
as We could see there wasn't the
! slightest evidence of mal-nutrition.
And if Mrs Bill had been crying she
had dried her eyes and repowdered
her nose.
1t was in little wyoming town that
we foregathered one evening last
| October with twenty-five or thirty
railroad men. They were conductors,
engineers, brakemen, firemen, switch
men. what not. Some Of the events OF
| the evening blurred, upon the memory,
] but we noted one thing while yet in
/ condition to do so. We were the only
gent present whose person was not
illuminated by the CLINT of a diamond.
But what's the use?