The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-08
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAT Z. HOUSE
(Trom Phiiadelphia Pubiie Ledgar.l
A Birthday Column.

n blrtfsudy AOluHlH.
Note.-The column today is, to a
gift of its readers to the reporter who
writes it.
I've been in the hospital
Five months
Where everything is, done
Fer my comfort.
Yet every hour I get cross
AS any pessinist.
Hanging on the wall in a small cage
Is my canary.
He has about foot of space
In which he can move.
The other day he cut his nails,
And they bled.
Did that bird repine?
Not SO.
With bleeding feet
He sat upon his perch
And sang
His little head off. c. R. W.
Labor of such a mental nature as
writing a column for newspaper
forces upon us the conviction that
should one be relieved of it en>the Day
of Rest he would be grateful. And If
this particular day of rest were. in
addition, the anniversary of the la
befer's natal day. then the relief
would serve as a gift.
We may Be wrong, but in the pres
ence of our ignorance along that line
we are emboldened to offer the gift of
freedom to the eolumnist on his natal
anniversary thru the open door of a
completed column
But to get along with the column.
We Immediately suffer the pangs OF
bewilderment. Being in the celestial
stage of bachelorhood, we are at a loss
as to what to do for an Adelaide.
Without an Adelaide a. column is a
barren moor, void of puissance in
welding thought conveyers, and very
peccable.
Like our worthy co-columnist, j.
E. H., We never bother about the delin-
cations of murder trials and social
scandals in the newspapers. Cense-
quently, We are not in position to en-
terrain our more select readers.
mediocre.
We approach the edge of this next
thought gingerly, for it is fraught with
peril. II recently has been our lot to
receive gratuttously from one who has
gene thru the mill the suggestion that
if we can successfully forestaH the
advances of femininity until we have
crossed the herderiand between
twenty-five and twenty-sfx years. we
, shall be comparatively safe.
1t has been our failing te delve into
many and varied interests. But. like
most delving, it was only superficial
sI oI 4loIdnS6, WHll0 we KNOW pfaC-
dcally nothing of the American farm
er. we have often marveied how he
gets so many spokesman and cham
pions who know about as much as
we do about him.
Would we open the floodgates> OF
opinion if we asked whether or not
the marital relation can be satisfac,
torily continued for any considerable
period if the party of the first part
has very liberal education, and the
party of the second part enjoys prac-
tically none?
The verdict Of the ceuntry's motion
picture industry would be in the af-
firmative; but we prefer to guide our
future by those more stable than stage
opinions.
We have been wandering down the
floral halls of anthology for several
paragraphs and cannot count a single
blossom we have plucked along the
way. All we have are withered leaves.
SIGMA DELTA KAPPA
Tho Limerick Influence.
Jay House is a chap who can't keer
his hooks
Off lit'ry things. such as papers and
books.
His birthdays today.
How old? ! can't say,
But bet it's blame sight more than
he looksi E. E. C.
c. S. U. batting for John Philip
Sousa, notices that the sign. "Whines
and Lickers." is pasted on a window
of puppies at Seventh and Arch streets.
The batter is out on a pop fly to short
A Seasonabio Repast.
(From the Vicksburg Daily Citizen.
We are indebted to Major Gillespie
for steak of Confederate beef. alias
meat. We tried it. and can assure our
friends that if it is rendered necessary,
they need have no scruples at eating
the meat. 1t is sweet, savory and ten