The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-24
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public LedgeF.)

Negotiations now under way be-
| tween the football authorities of Yale
and Iowa for game between the two
school next fall will be deplored by
all odd grads and others who have
the interests of Yale at heart. They
would add another tough contest to
Yale's leart-breaking schedule of
two games. And there is always the
possibility, remote, it is true, that
tingency nobody east OF the Allegheny
mountains cares to contemplate.
There is, of course, the possibility
that Iowa will have a weak team
next year. Two or three Of Iowa's
stars have played their last game of
football. In that event, it would be
all right for Yale to schedule a date
with Iowa. But football authorities at
Yale should proceed with caution.
Mrs. w. C. T. questions our recent
arraignment of the native New Yorker
and contemplates the columns brief
and abrupt dismissal of his claim to
intelligence in sadness and vexation.
Likely her point is well taken. We
are not sure we ever met a. native
New Yorker. We sometimes fancy
one doesn't.
One who goes to New York semi
| occasionally as we have done for the
twenty-five years last past, meets
hordes of westerners who have
stormed, or are storning, the en-
itrenchments of a metropolis. He
sees Broadway and Fifth avenue, the
Bronx Zoo and Greenwich Village. If
he is unsophisticated, he goes to
| Chinatown. In other days he visited
the Tenderloin. He meets hotel and
restaurant keepers, head walters,
theatrical producers actors, bootleg
| ons." professional Southerners. pro-
fessional Californians, writer's who
can't write, painters who can't paint
and the fluff and froth of the vol
unteer Entertainment committee of
Manhattan. He mixes in the alleged
night life and makes note of the sala-
manders, lounge lizards, Middle West
| buyers and married couples-about-
town who frivol on its fringes. He
marks the ever-present 'front.' and
away with the notion that he has seen
the native New Yorker in his favorite
| haunts.
Probably he has done nothing of
| the kind. Buried somewhere in the
obscurity of New York there must be
caste of natives-simple, unaffected,
intelligent, home-loving folk, who pay
their bills, live within their means and
| absorb their pleasures in unostenta-
met any of them and that We are dis
qualified to sit in judgment on them.
He Likes the Columns Modesty,
| Sir-The delicate modesty that is
| the Identification tag of a column con-
| ductor having led you to confess there
| is one question you do not feel COM
| petent to answer, can you be prevailed
upon to demonstrate your extraordi-
nary facility in the following particu-
/ lar instance?
Offhand, and without reference to
the historical book of of reference in
which the episode is related, will you
kindly inform us who killed Cain?
NORJEFF.
Suspecting a trap, we bear off to the
| left, double the trail and approach the
! log at & point higher up on the trunk.
We have no opinion as to who killed
| Cain.
We have referred to the manner in
which we are fettered to the unusual.
| Well, we know an artist in portraiture
| who has not yet painted a picture of
Mr.. Harding and who has no intention
of doing so.
Having thus brought the Hardings
| into the frame, we recur to our favor
| tie contention that life never breaks
better than fifty-fifty. The eyes of
| the world are on the president. He is
possibly, its most conspicuous citizen.
Honor and fame are his. But the pro-
| liabilities are that Mrs. Harding hasn't
a single jar of home fruit in
her cellar.
The women are out to make the
world better. They concede that to
be their purpose. If they will favor
| ably consider a suggestion in line with
progress, it is that they put up more
fruit. Home-canned fruit is the bull
wapk of a nation.
THAT and gravy. Other reasons for
| the fall of Rome have been advanced.
But the facts are that Rome began
to slip when its women. in their de-
votion to general welfare work, for
got how to make good gravy
'Lehigh Rallies for Lafayette" runs
a headline. It is well that Lehigh rail-
lies. We go further: It behooves
Lehigh to do so.
what Do Men want?' asks Lois
Weber in her latest "fillum." Well,
the men are a little reluctant to admit
| it, but what they really want is en-
1t cannot be expected they will make
| all the advances unless they receive
some assurance that their efforts will
not be scorned.
The decision to make the confer
ences of delegates to the Arms Farley
secret meets with the entire approval
| of the column. Personally, we care
nothing about 1t one way or another,
| but secret conferences will give every
| ''shoot-mouth" in the country his
| chance to rave.
| Various forms of diversion entice US.
But our favorite diversion is listening
| to the raving of the "shoot-mouths."
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