The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY z. HOUSE
lFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.lN

I have no gift of rhyme,
The metrical is not for me:
But one thing / can do
In tawdrp fashion I can u1ulate
In cadences.f
I make no boast of it,
But such as it is, it's mine
And for it I owe Masters
Nothing.
I do not ask for it the benediction
OF the flattering word,
The thing that inks my soul
And fits the gives of petty thought
Upon my consciousness is the assump-
ton
My poor folk are imitation
Within two years I've seen Jess Bell
And looked upon his cowshed
And his willow tree
1t was so late as August of the cur
rent year
That Sallie Patling laid the burden
OF her grief upon me.
Charlie Cotaid lives and breathes-
OF all the company I've assembled
In this column
Only Charley Harbaugh, Morey Aid
rich
And Andrew jackson Harmon
Sleep their eternal sleep.
Bill Dye still runs a grocery,
Mack Trent pounds iron and FORCES
plowshares:
Somewhere in obscurity the fragile
beauty
OF Ada Aldrich fades.
1 try to write of life as have seen
And know it.
What could be better artistry
Than that?
All that now remains to be deter
mined is whether the allegation that
Governor Cox is a newspaper man has
any sound basis in fact.
Consider That Attention Has Been
Called.
Sir-In the interest ofShonest adver-
Using, allow me to call your attention
to a sign around Twelfth and Market
streets:
"Guilford's Shirts
Open Evenings
There's Nothing Hidden Here"
r. r. o.
Money" says the New York World,
Democrats" Write your own jape
around the lett motif We merely
wish to greet the word "coffers," note
itsrecrudescence and leon our way.
Having looked most of them over,
we pronounce the musical comedy
Irene" the most daring venture of the
theatrical season. We are not hep
to all of the nuances of musical COM
edy art, but so far as we are able to
decide, there isn't questionable line
in the piece.
The suggestion that Adelaide con-
duct the column for a day has been
suggested by M. S. and is under con-
S1deratlon. AS soon as Adelaide re-
turns from the wedding to which she
journeyed ten days ago the matter will
be preached to her.
We view the most recent arrest of
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst with a calm
| ness that amounts to lethargy. If it
is the purpose of the British authori-
ties to infuriate the column, they will
have to try some other plan.
Edgjng our way a little further in
the direction of the end of the limb,
we express the thought that any SUBJ
sequent experience in which Miss
Pankhurst is concerned. provided it be
an unpleasant one, will be satisfactory
| to the general public.
Mr.. .aHarding touched the pulse OF
the situation in his Buffalo speech
when he said. in effect, that Governor
/ Cox, knowing his cause to he lost, is
talking wildly for talks sake. But
| agnosis of the governors case. Per-
haps we're IN better taste that he did
not do so.
I Since, however, such diagnosis
| should be made, we crave the privi-
lege of making it. The fact is, one
so shallow and superficial as Cover
! nor Cox has proven himself to be
likely would have said it in any event
A reader of the column resents
Raymond Hitchcock's joke in the re-
, vised version of "Hitchy Koo," which
is to the effect that Philadelphia has
/ reached its quota for the third liberty
loan. 1t is suggested that, as an ac-
credited humorist, we pass fitting
/ comment upon the fling.
We. accept the commission gladly
But before We formulate a proper re-
Duke We must know what is wrong
/ with the Hitchcock joke. Hasn't
Philadelphia reached its quota of the
third liberty loan?
We are perfectly willing to be
amazed at the case of Edward Roche
! Hardy, Jr-, twelve years old, who has
matriculated at Columbia university
with a speaking knowledge of twelve
| languages and a record of having
studied Assyrian and Babylonian
tablets, if that will be satisfactory. =
But, before doing so, we beg the
privilege of asking question: What
does it all "get' him?
/, As news item Master Hardy quail
fies He is first-page story. But il
| the rule with respect TO youthful
lprodigies is maintained. he has made
that favored spot for the last time.
! Uncle Sam having saved Europe's
! life" r r. D. observes. ''she nov
wants him to marry her"
|
COLORADO MINERS MAY STRIKE
Twenty-Five Hundred Coal Diggers
Plan to Walk Out Thursday.