The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-31
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE
frrom PhiiadeIphis Public Ledxsf.)

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frrom Phiisdelphis Public Ledxsr.)
The fear is openly expressed that
the President Hardings, excellent peo-
pie, tho they are, may, in certain con-
tingencies be unequal to the social de-
mands upon them. There is no dis
position to critcise Mrs. Harding, but
those who read the newspa pers know
she married a middle western small
town editor. Since the Hardings are
wholly unaccustomed to court life, the
possibility that they may be called
upon to entertain the king and queen
of Spain, or other royalty. is giving
much concern.
President Harding's habit of going
about with an unleashed dog unat-
tended by a keeper has also corne in
for some acerbetic comment. Every
body knows that the kennels are the
proper place for a dog and that when
it is permitted to leave them 1t should
be on leash and in the hands Of q
keeper The feeling is that mtn
who goes about in democratic sort of
way with a dog would drive his own
car. III.
The serving class. we regret deeply
| to note, is again giving trouble. Only
| last week, in a community within fifty
| miles of Philadelphia, a housemaid
was found to be carrying on with a
| chauffeur. The wretched woman was
| at once discharged; but the incident
is of more than local significance and
should have wide publicity. The serv-
| ing classes were SO pampered and
| coddled during the war that they are
| now assuming all the rights and
| privileges of the people who matter.
| Popular taste in literature is again
giving those who wish to direct it into
| proper channels grave concern.
Recently it has been discovered that a
popular novel of the winter, which
| already has run thru SIX editions. was
written by man who never attended
a prep" school.
Everybody regrets the open break
between Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Lansing.
And the feeling is that Mr.. Lansing. in
writing a book which can be under
stood by anybody who reads it. has to
some extent lost CASTE.
| H. G. Wells continues to meet and
| merit approval. Since Mr.. Wells has
recently been writing about Russia he
violated none of the canons of good
taste in expressing himself fully and
freely. But when Mr. Wells again be.
gins to write about Great Britain and
America he must be more reticent. IL
The case of the New Jersey girl who
offered to marry an acceptable man fol-
| $1,000 has attracted much attention
| from the thoughtless and unthinking
With the purely economic phases Of
the case one need not concern oneself
| In fact. one cannot concern onesel1
| with it and be true to his Unborn and
inbred instincts. But on it's ethica
side it presents material for restrained
comment. If one can believe the
newspapers, here was a girl of sixteen
a girl who had never been presented
to society-who was not yet out
as it is more Familiarity termed-whe
into compact to make a hasty mar
riage. The thing is unthinkable, ant
yet the newspapers say it happened
One thing is apparent: The masse.
| have no conception of and no rever
teach them the conventions and, i
4 possible. persuade them to accep
them.
The new president of Yale is firm
| believer in college sports. AS it il
sometimes vulgarly expressed, colleg,
Il sports seem to be iL for great boom
One may, of course, use the wor,
Doom when discoursing upon ligh
| anu LhAfAoi oubJSStS IA TIC 6ICdt OpSi
spaces. But it is not a word one woult
use, or care to use. in the DRAWN,
room.
J. J. gets into communication witt
the column to say a thousand dollars
worth is an awful lot of radishes. w
go even>further: 1t is more radishe
than there are in the world.
The business of forbidding the sal
nf ~ .Ir1..
on in various municipalities. Mr.. For,
y seems, at last, to be in a fair way t
get little circulation.
However. IL the unknown week.
r does achieve circulation. It will los
,, its only Distinction: 1t has been tn
only periodical in the world which, 4
, a manner of speaking. nobody read.