The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
ORION philadelphia Public Ledgss)

The general disposition of the peo-
pie is to find fault. One still hears
criticism of Noah because he sent a
dove after the olive branch. The peo-
pie say the dove is a very stupid bird
and that Noah used poor Judgment n
sending it on q mission of such i'm
rortance.
| While a man does not object to ex-
hibiting the various tricks in his roper
toire to an audience OF gentlemen, he is
at his happiest and best only when
performing for the ladies.
| The fact that the yodng men who
fought in France had mothers has been
repeatedly pointed out. But this, it
is believed, is the first time attention
OF them had fathers.
After Il man has told what he paid
for his room and meals and has de-
scrfbed what he sa " at the theater,
the topics for conversation inspired by
his visit to the city may be considered
exhausted.
II You wish to learn all there is to
know about a man, talk confidentially
with the wife of his former partner in
business.
Men have always conce ded the
charm and beauty of women. But this
years election, being the first in which
women generally have participated,
tney need not be surprised, to hear.
peiore the campaign is over, that they
nave extraordinary intelligence and
unusual judgment
The Declarption of independence is
4 famous and inspiring document and
1 CORRECTLY
brought US our liberties But there
are number of jokes in it. One of
them is to the effect that men are
created free and equal.
The sartorial investiture of the we'd
dlns ceremony, in so far as the BRIDE
! groom Is concerned, has changed with
Ltne years. Comparatively few BRIDE
srooms nowadays wear the "conven-
tional black" A far greater number.
are clothed in blue serge. The blue
serge suit has come to be regarded as
one OF the signs and portents of a re-
Gently assumed marital relation.
orten express the wish taht they were
men. But so far as is known no man
ever publicly expressed the wish that
ne were woman
By the time a woman has finished
waiting on her husband and children
they are all hungry again and it is
time to cook another meal.
A woman reads the declaration of
independence to the members OF her
FAMILY on an average of once a week.
But she very seldom attempts to put
its principles into practice.
The American citizen, male or IA
male. can and often does withstand
priFation and suffering without a
| murmur- He stands up well under
sorrow and despair. But he must
have his hero.
At a mass meeting of husbands held
recently 1t was decided that the man
1 who inspires his wife's laughter as
often as once in eight years is doing
as well as the average. A woman will
love and cherish her husband. She
stands by him thru evil and thru good
report. But she seldom laughs at his
jokes.
woman finds hers in fiction, life
or in the drama, but a man is his own
hero.
Hatred may also be described as
that fine feeling which so often exists
between gelntives.
Unless she is an actress a woman Is
as old as she looks. In the case of an
actress add from ten to twenty years.
The rule is that the young man
whose suit is rejected by her parents
is as good as the girl he wishes to
| marry.
The lawyers are agreed that weep
ing client, IL she be a woman, is the
| strongest testimony that can be
placed at the disposal of the attor-
neys for the defendant.
oninions differ as to whether the
martyr, or the professional good man,
is the most obnoxious person.
The chief objection to the worth
less man is that he insists on giving
a parade in which the attention of the
public is specifically directed to his
worthlessne&.
J In love stories and on the stage the
heroine nearly. always marries the
right man. And she succeeds in doing
so about half the time in real life.
Considered purely as virtue. early
rising probably is all right. But the
world is, in large measure, owned and
controlled by men who do not get up
early in the morning.
The projectors of musical comedy
do pretty well, but woman is the finest
scenic investiture.
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