The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-20
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledser.l

I
Thru the enterprise of our favorite
newspaper. need we again say 1t is
the New York American. We are en-
abled to print this morning partial
list of the presents received by the
contracting parties to, the Littleton-
Vanderbilt wedding. The American
fact that the chief has several times
reproved the column for encroachinS
on the reading matter, we may men
ton only the rarer articles of virtu:
Tennyson's poems. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander.
Gray suede pocketbook, MIR. and
Mrs oliver b. Bridgman.
Book, Our Greatest Battle" Mr..
and Mrs. Bates
Embroidered lunch cloth. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bonk.
Glass berry bowl. Miss Marguerite
Pair embroidered pillow slips, Mr..
and Mrs James Dinwiddie.
Green lampshade, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
Book. Miss Helen LIE Fetrie.
Ronbon dish, Gordon Mccullough.
Wastepaper basket. a. Netalard.
Paper cutter, the Misses Winchester
and Miss Pratt.
PAPER weight, Mrs. Hamilton Fish.
Picture frame, Mrs. oliver WILLIAMS
Bird
Enameled pin tray. Theodore ana
George Tilton.
In the little old town with which
we are most familiar a list of wedding
presents In the paper meant that the
editor and his lady had been invited
TO witness the ceremony
While tastes in wedding presents
seem to run about the same the coun-
try over, the middle west, while rot
d'sdaining elegance in its expressions
OF good will. is more likely to extend
them in the form of a utility. We re-
call one bride who took her vows about
the time cut glass achieved its foN-
tissimo note. When she took stock CT
her wedding presents she found ninc-
teen cut glass berry bowls
Etaoin, Shrdlu.
| went downtown today
And stopped before the Public Ledger
Office to read the bulletins.
And / learned that Lloyd George had
Said he was satisfied with
Ynxkj WI kyZ.
Likewise ] learned that Mayor Moore
Had said anent the transit situation,
Sut mgufh gkt.
| did not read furlneG because
Had a headache.
But / am worried about the operator.
Was he seized with cramps?
Or did he put his foot on the
Accelerstor instead of the brake?
Or did he trip and fall headlong
Across tho keys?
shall not be satisfied until I know.
Grac'as. y. Il.
We'd appreciate it ie some reader ot
the column would send US Philadel-
phia's favorite joke. Doubtless, our
failure to establish ourself as humor-
list is due to the fact that nobody has
tipped us to the town "wheeze-" In
the middle west the favorite joke is
about the young fellow who had neve-'
heard of Ty Cobb. morists rose
and fell on that joke, and still ere
doing it.
Meanwhile. we wish to express t.
Mr.. Secretary Meredith, of the depart
ment of agriculture, our appreciation
of his suggestion that business and co..
leSe men turn out and help the farmer
plant and till his crops. 1t made" the
Cay for us.
AS one who has had intensive ex-
perience as an agriculturist. we do
not glow with sympathy for the en-
battled farmer. He is nothing to | s.
But heaven forbid that such a catas-
trophe as a visitation of town mea
should be inflicted upon him. All Il
town man can do on a farm is get.in
the way. Here and there exists a town
man who could earn as much in
week as he would eat in day, but he
is the exception to the rule
Our interest in Lady Buffers pro-
diction that England will never go '1.y-
is, of course, impersonal. But, curl
ously enough, it recalls to mind an in
innate and confidential communi-
cation made to us by New York man
a year ago last fall.
That as he discussed certain mat
ters connected with our own internal
policies, was what he SAID
While Mr.. Taft goes more into de-
tail. he seems to reach the same con-
clusion the column frequently has ex-
pressed in a couple of lines.