The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-28
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY =. HOUSE
tyron Philadelphia Public LedEsf.)


"You say" writes r. NJ. p, you'd
rather see any modern play. good or
bad. than anything shakespeare wrote.
Bara?" As to that, we have a perfectly
good answer. We went to see the
Bara only to scott. When we had
scoffed our fill we Withdrew. But had
it been a Shakespearean performance
we never should have been inside the
doors. D
A few love Shakespeare. A great
many others pretend to do so because
they fondly imagine it is the thing
to do.
The Query OF an Obtuse Coadjutor.
Sip-Listen! While shuffling down
your column the other day 1 forgot
the most important of all the things
had intended to notate there. Can
get in with an addendum? Yes?
Then tell your readers, / pray, how
you squared yourself tif you ever did,
with Adelaide in the matter of that
sleeping car ticket stamped Boston"
CULLEN CAIN.
Mr.. Cain. who has long been mar
ried, talks like a fool. We were mar
ried in October, 1911. One evening in
November of that year We went out TO
post letter. We didn't get back un-
til o'clock the next morning. We
haven't got that explained yet. There
explanation of the episode OF the
sleeping car ticket when we get to it.
| The unfinished business of more than
nine years is ahead of it.
Norman Hapgood has joined the
staff of the New York American The
column eongratulates both Mr.. Hap
good and the American. It is a most
felicitous arrangement. The Ameri-
can is precisely the sort of newspaper
to which Mr.. Hapgood should be at
tached, and vice versa.
Former Governor Lowden declined
the post of secretary of the navy ON
the ground that his training had not
fitted him for the job. And this is
the country in which, scarcely a half
a dozen years ago, a pacifist was ap-
/ pointed secretary of-war. We make
some progress.
Once or twice a week letter aimed at
our frequent use of the word lin
| trigged" reach this desk. Many write
| to sheer, other to ask our warrant or
authority for the use of the word We
are INTRIGUED by Philip Hale's COM
ment on it and we imagine others
will be- Mr.. Hale is the only man
| we ever knew who could wear a flow
| ing with a morning coat and get away
| with it. We take it that anything
| he says about words and their uses
| is authoritative.
| Writing in his column in the Boston
| Herald. Mr.. Hale says: THE present
! use of intrigue is a revival of an
ancient one, in fact, the oldest. for as
early as 1912 the transitive verb
also to trick deceive cheat; but there
| is no quotation from any author of
repute in support of the definition
given in the Oxford dictionary. The
| first question with reference to the
now common meaning is dated about
liza. Tt intrigues me- is a vile
phrase"
1t may be well to say we did not
originate the use. of the. phrasestn the
! connection in which il appearsfh the
column. Its photographer was Bert
Lesion Taylor, of the Chicago Trib-
une. We saw the phrase in Mr.. Tay-
lor's column, liked it, and following
| our custom of taking words and
| phrases wherever we find them, ap-
propriated it. Mr.. Taylor virtually
go on with it until we find something
that suits us as well or better.
- Others will write more vividly and
more entertainingly of Senator Hi-ra m
We can think to say of it is that it is
typical of the modest. shy, reticent
and self-effacing gentleman Senator
johnson repeatedly has shown HIM
self to be.
One trouble in this country is that
good men frequently are cut off in the
flower of their youth. while a dema-
gogue often outlives his generation.
If the Jews really wish to punish
Henry Ford, which we doubt, we beg
the privilege of suggesting a method.
Let them see to it that Mr.. Ford S
name is not hereafter mentioned in
any Newspaper except his own.
There is no cruelty so refined and
SO effective as that of restricting the
personal publicity of a man who
loves it.
While we have no personal interest
in the Democratic party, we believe