The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

The Stillman case comes back to
the printed page for q more or less
extended stay. Those who write
about 1t seem to think it will be less.
Anyhow, the thought that must force
itself upon its faithful readers is that
II Is now pretty thin Cruel. What
was once pink Is now pale The only
reaction we get from 1t is that young
Stillman is a 'cocky," blatant cub.
who talks too much.
We don't know how it affected you,
but young Stillman's casting off of his
father struck US as moderately funny.
It was better than most of the dollar
vaudeville. and eQualed the perform
ance of a spinster who arose, not so
land and gave notice that the mothers
OF this country would rear no more
sons for war.
We get fewer laughs out of life than
the average, being less easily titillated
than some. But the lady who takes
her maternity both seriously and
vicariously never fails to put us In hi
lariouS mood.
.Eph wiley is different in one re-
spect. Eph says when q man owes
pay 1t back he doesn't pretend he had
forgotten all about the matter.
We confess we are having a good
deal of trouble with Carpenters
name. We can't seem to remember
how to pronounce it and never are
able to do SO twice in succession with
ton. How, by the way, are you get
ting along with it?
The thing that intrigues US almost as
l. -
sheep writers to find the hole in the
fence. Most of them believe Dempsey
will win, but they want to play safe,
and their continued and continual
search is for safe exit.
Taking them by and large, a fat
woman is always little better look
ing than q thin one. And yet women
spend their weary days obsessed by
the fear that they are putting on
flesh.
1t is now nearly seven years since
we wrote a flippant paragraph defin-
ing the difference between an optimist
and a pessimist. As the only working
member of the photographers union
who has exercised such restraint, we
should like to know If we are going
to get anything for doing it?
We offer no advice concerning your
vacation further than to suggest that
you Go not take your camera with you
Every time we hear of a murder we
wonder If 1t wasn't inspired when the
victim brought out his vacation pic
lures.
SIT would be pleasant" says the es-
teemed New York Tribune in its grave
editorial discussion of the matter. ito
see Miss Elizabeth Ryan home again.
1t surely would, and II there is to be
ae1r
sion to join it.
In fact, the Trib may count US in
any time there is a good-looking young
woman to be welcomed.
If there is anything in knowing what
a saxophone is, credit "jazz" with an
achievement. So recently as five years
ago the average person wouldn't have
known a saxophone from a bassoon.
Now nearly everybody knows what a
saxophone is. -,
The percentage, however, Of those
able to identify a bassoon has not in
creased appreciably in forty years.
Mr.. Gompers is quoted as saying the
real rulers of Russia do not exceed
10000 in number. Still. If that is the
point, 1t is possible to carry the GEN.
tralization of government much far
Their. The period during which Mr..
Wilson and Mr.. Gompers ruled this
country is so recent that everybody
remembers 1t.
Mr.. Bryan believes the various loans
to our late allies should be Cancelled.
Mr.. Bryan probably has given away
more things that never belonged to
him than any other American citizens.
And that reminds US we heard not
long ago that many of the women in
the manufacturing towns of Massa-