The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-05
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY z. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public LedgsrJ

| BIT JAY z. HOUSE.
Qrom Phiiadelphia Public LedssrJ
We fear Mr.. Ed Wrinkle has set for
us a delicate, not to say difficult.
task He wants the column to compel
the p. r. T. to provide better car serv-
ice. Mr.. Wrinkle writes that he hardly
ever gets a seat, and adds: Hoping
this will take the place of some of
Adelaide's sayings, or those old-fash-
toned songs which concern you only in
the way they help to fill the column,
thus speaks the mind Of city hall
porter"
In one particular we have done lit
tie better by Mr.. Wink,e than he asks.
We have not only dedicated to him
the space usually occupied by Ade-
ladies sayings but we have also given
him the top of column. Aftho AIDE
laide has been an transformations fig
ure in the column for nearly nine
years, she never yet has made the top
of 1t. But the p r. T. proposition
is much more difficult problem.
We shall need more time. In view of
the concessions made to hirp we trust
Mr.. Wrinkle is willing to grant it.
Boy, Page Mr.. Sousa.
Sill would like to ask your sign
editor. Mr.. John Philip Sousa, what
he makes of this sign on a store on
Second street below Girard avenue:
"Murphy's Observation-Disclosures"
I have asked 1868 persons and no.
body knows. WIN.
We have no notion as to what the
sign means, but it seems to have
worked.
he rxr1,f Il. h.
we quote from the more than esteem
ed Evening Public Ledger. Colonel
Thompson smoked like a furnace.
senator Kenyon chewed away on the
end OF the same cishr. Senator Edge
puffed comfortably Senator Reeds
c1garet went out, was reiighted, burn
ed out. was replaced"
Where there's smoke" - w. go
ahead and say it yourself.
We note an Invitation from James
H. Birch, jr., to join THE Poor Fish
club. We are pleased to know our
qualifications for membership in the
organization already have been recog-
nized within the new and strange en-
vironment into which we fitted our
serves only little more than a year
ago. But the facts are that we were
born a member and have already paid
dues for life.
II you think yours is a hard job,
mediate for a moment upon tho as
signment fate has handed Ring Lard
ner. This Lardner fellow not only has
agreed to write something funny about
the coming worlds series but he is
under contract to do it.
If there is laugh left in baseball
We are no, humorist.
Deschanel has neurasthenia, and ii
probably will be months before he is
able to hook his cane around a tree
and, with one hand. pull himself and
chair into closer jutaxposition to the
tree. -
That, you may remember. was Pres
ident Wilson's signal to the world that
he had recovered the use Of his physi-
cal faculties.
The Lyrics of the Yesterycnr
Sir-May 1 not also hand you a
sheaf of lyrics of the yesteryear:
Take back your gold. -tse css y $3.50 a..-
Gold can never buy me
Give me your heart, promise. to be true.
Give me the love, the love that you deny
me,
Make me your wife, it's all I ask of you.
"She has fallen by the wayside,
She has gone beyond recall.
Every door Is closed against her
Not friend on whom TO call,
please come and piny in my yard,
I'm all alone. you see,
Once l was poor Ike you are
Then mamma cared for me.
Now she is awfully busy,
Out in society.
Please come and play in my yard,
Nobody cares for me-"
Nellie and Mae, sisters were they,
Roth from the same old home.
Nellie was grnud, wealth at command,
Mae was an outcast alone.
T. W. b.
Sir-These may intrigue" you:
1.-The sun the hilItops was shining.
The myrtle and the ivy were-in bloom.
Twas there the hilltops adoring
We left our Myrtle in the tomb"
Mother, oh why did you leave me aloney .
No one TO pity. no friends and no home.
Dark In the night and the storm RACES wild.
God pity Bessie, the drunkard's lone child r
w. III. Dub.
1t may be you are. wondering what
the argument Is for Governor Cox.
Not that you are going to vote for
him. but that you are curious to know.
1t seems nE the esteemed Marion