The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY e. HOUSE
Fron phiisdelphia Public Ledgsr.)
The ChaIIenee Is NerIieibIe.

The Challenge Is Negligible.
Sir-Jays usually are innocent rural
guys. You seem to be a city jay; also
a great camouflage artist. You care
fully sidestep the point made by A. G.
]. and Y. A. They refer to discrimina-
ton in the sale of tickets, not to lack
of courtesy. And you really think the
the combine of theaters with the au-
thorized speculator. I would like to
buy yo@ at my idea of your value and
sell you at your own; Then I could
retire.
Last year I called at a theater at
o'clock in the morning on the opening
day of a sale of tickets and was told
they had nothing better than the tenth
row. On anotherA occasion, while pur-
chasing tickets, this authorized specu-
lator handed back. without refund, un-
sold tickets of the day before. 1t is
these outrageous conditions to which
the people object who cannot afford
to pay this SPECTATORS advance, which
is divided between the theaters. And
it is these conditions you asserted you
would write up. Print this letter and
keep your promise. I dare you!
JUSTICE.
Justices idea of a daring thing
turesome. We either print contribul
tors letter or we don't, depending
upon our judgment as to whether it
will in any way interest the public.
We dare print his letter. We regard
it as one of the shortest of journeys
into the realm of danger. Had he had
the forethought or the courage to mem
ton the name of the theater in which
he claims to have been tbilked" we
should have printed that, as well.
We do not imagine there is any
menace to anybody in our intentions.
But sometimes, just to crafty our own
sense of the humorous, we pretend
there is To swagger little is one of
the tricks of this trade; it nearly al
ways stirs somebody ups
P. S. has telephoned to direct atten-
ton to a grave error to which we yes
terday gave currency and authority.
woman who rejoined her husband up
stairs would not have asked: 'Is she
as fat as I?' She would have asked,
P. S. thinks, Am as fat as she?"
Thanks. old top We wish there
were always somebody at elbow to set
us right. We should pull fewer
"boners."
The request of the Binghamton wo-
man who laid upon her husband the
injunction that following her death he
marry his stepdaughter does not strike
us as an extraordinary thing, altho the
New York papers SO played it. The
fear that grips every woman's heart
is that in the event of her death her
husband will marry his stenographer.
That she should bind him to some
alternative is a perfectly natural thing
to do.
AS friendly office, we project Dr.
Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston.zinto the
calcium's glare. DR.. Eliot has just
filed report in which he worries a
good deal about the condition and
status of the well known red Indian.
Since he has achieved a distinction
won by few white men in history, we
feel that mention should be made
of it.
It is true many men have grown
gray and decrepit thinking about the
red Indians. But their thoughts have
always had to do with some plan or
scheme to get the land or money be-
longing to the Indians.
You take the Usage Indians as an
example. We figure that the number
of white men who have grown old and
gray while trying to rob the Osages is
in excess of half a million.
The fact that the controversy about
Mrs. Wharton's THE Age of Inno-
cence'' is again raging with redoubled
violence at 4524 Chestnut street pro-
baby will not interest you. We refer
to it because We wish to exhibit the
neat bee which we placed upon Ade-
laide in the course of the encounter.
While the average man would not,
under any circumstances, place a bee
upon lady, he greatly enjoys watch
ing another performer in a promulga-
ton of the fact.
We are discussing the unrequited
love of Newland Archer and the Coun-
tess Olenska. But said Adelaide,
had Newland Archer been free to
marry the Countess O1enska he would
have found her just as unsatisfa Glory
as the wife. who bored him. Per
haps," we retorted, what you say is
having already experienced the joys of
marital felicity, would not have mar
ried the countess
We confess 1.-The Age of Innocence"
thwarts our mental process. The stu
pidest of books, we read it to the end.
What is Mrs. Wharton's drag with
the '1ow-brow" reader?
Meanwhile. the conviction forces
itself upon US that Oscar Egg, posi-
bly, thru having been long in storage,
is a sterile performer.
1.-THE Sherman antitrust law" saws
the esteemed New York Tribune, "has
been on the statute books thirty
years" Yes, go on, go on! Tell us
what happened.
Gooroo Nathan A Ion,c