The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY Z. HOUSE
fFrom Philadslphia Public Ledsas.l

we trust we Shall not De QGemeQ
captious If we express to the Wash
ington correspondents a doubt that the
public is as deeply interested in Presi-
dent Harding's dog as they seem to
think it is. We don't believe anybody
cares whoop whether 'Iaddie Boy
answers Mr.. Hardings CALL Offhand,
we should say that as a news topic
the White House Airedale is ex-
hausted.
Meanwhile. there must be some
thing of interest going on in Washing
ton. What is it, gentlemen?
Neither are we criticizing any one
when We say we could do with less
about the Boots woman, who is now
giving an exhibition in what, we be-
neve. is Quarter Sessions Court. We
don't have to read it, OF course. and
we sha'n't read it. But the Boots
episode offends our instinct for good
workmanship. There was one sordid,
squalid, pitiless story in Boots" That
| let her out.
However, Adelaide, who reads the
column with mounting indignation,
| says we everyday the cheap sex motif
| as badly as anybody, and it may be
| that she is right about it.
/ John Burroughs lived to be eighty
four, or nearly so. He had a strong
| constitution to begin with and thru
most of his years lived an active. out
door life. Such conclusion as we
make from it. is that a man can live
an active outdoor life and reach an
advanced age if he has the constitu-
| ton to stand it,
] The lesson of death is that there is
no set rule. Aunt Margaret died late
last summer. In her earlier years she
was a frail little woman, who per
| formed the multifarious duties of q
/ farm housewife with considerable eff
fort. Along toward the sunset of life
she fell upon evil days. She had not
too much to eat and was none too well
| sheltered, altho those who cared fol
| her did the best they knew. But they
lived very humbly and lacked many OF
the comforts. When Aunt Margaret
was sixty-eight she tripped on the eel
lar stairs and broke an arm; three
years later she fell and fractured the
wrist of the other arm. When she
was seventy-six years old she toppleG
backward off the back porch and sus
tanned a very serious fracture of tn,
thigh. Afterward she lay for many
weeks with weight tied to her grea
toe. When she was eighty-one sh'
was attacked and seriously manglet
up two or three times. When she wa
eighty-four she beat off lingering
attack of typhoid, and the followin;
winter emerged weak but safely from
double pneumonia. She had anothe
attack of pneumonia when she wa
eighty-six. Last summer, after pass
ing her eighty-seventh birthday ami
versary. she died quietly in bed from
physical exhaustion.
Miss Miller, who set out to secure
thousand dollars to send her mothe
l to foI mill OF in
at the rate OF 500 a week. Vaude
! vile management may not know VIVA
is good, but it knows what the publ
, likes.
Most Of them" says the cable il
describing the manikins who ATTENDED
the Auteuil races, were wearin;
strings of barbarous jewels. will
diaphanous, bell-shaped skirts jus
reaching to the knees. Their bar,
legs were visible above the. low san
dals, which permitted glimpses of toe
bedecked with diamonds and rub,
rings"
What of it, you ask? Nothinj
. much. 1t is merely that we recall
period in history when the Polio
Gazette was considered not quite re
spectacle.
Mr.. Harding is to have a privat
golf course, and, if what they say O
, his fame is true, he needs one. =
"Hearst's Magazine liberal edu
cation" runs one of the advertisin
= catch lines. We are not familiar witt
Hearsts. We are curious to know
, whether its field of revelation paral
lels that of its distinguished siste
magazine, Cosmopolitan.
The Cosmopolitan, we may add,
one of the most liberal educations il
obstetrics We have been permitted t
assimilate.
It is true, when the White Sox wer
; reindicted by a Chicago grand jur
Judge Lands expressed his approva
, in no uncertain terms. But approve
of the action of the grand jury coul'
have been purchased for considerable
less on a wide open market. Person
ally, we should be willing to expires
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