The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
ON~SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAZZ q. HOUSE.
tfron Philadelphia Public Lsdrsr.l

S o m interesting correspondents
from the Cosmopolitan Magazine has
reached this desk We beg to say to
the esteemed Cosmop. at<there can
be no controversy between US on the
point it raises Miss Hurst is a gifted
writer. We regard her Installation
of the. mulberry-colored mark inn
printed by his collar button upon a
| gentleman's Adams apple as the best
thing of its kind in contemporary lit
erature. And the short story upon
which the Cosmop. seeks to join issue
| is an epic of the marital relation. We
are its debtor to the extent of three
distinct thrills and many premonitory
| shiyers.
| Nor do we in any particular fail to
| understand the editorial policy of the
Cosmopolitan, as the correspondence
| policy of the Cosmopolitan is to sell
a monthly magazine for thirty-five
cents; and, if we are any judge of the
reading public, the editor is going
about it in the right way.
! Upon one point only do we demur
That is the claim that the Cosmopoli-
| tan enjoys a good laugh at its own
fexpense. Nobody does that. When
man or q magazine laughs at a joke
4 on himself it isn't because he enjoys
! It It is because he is trying to create
\
"It is, perhaps. your playing upon
the sexophone which engenders the
| urge to have you fired" writes Hugh
Merr. We don't know as to that, but
we herewith credit Mr.. Merr with the
| coinage of a word Of which the
vocabulary was much in need and
| which We shall employ with great
gusto as occasion arises.
Tt is considerable distance from
| "sexophone' to Ezra Pounds poem on
man, but at the suggestion of a reader
we snail attempt to negotiate it, trust
ing the while that we are violating no
copyright in doing so.
4 Man.
For man is a skinful OF wine
| But his soul is holeful of God
And the song of all time flows thru him
As wind thru knot-holed board.
Tho man be a skinful of wine
| Yet his heart is a little child
That croueheth low beneath the wind
| When the God storm battereth wild
Ezra Pound.
knowing Georgia as we do not, we
forecast a jail sentence Of thirty days
for the gentleman who was primarily
responsible for the alarming mortality
rate attained by the employees of the
John S. Williams farm.
We have been wondering all day
| how we could frame that particular
/ quip without being crude, coarse. in
delicate or offensive. We leave it to
you as to whether we succeeded in
doing SO and whether it is worth the
effort expended.
| The mysterious thing about the
Rankine case. if you wish to leave it
to US, is that despite the fact that Mrs.
Rankine disappeared a week ago to-
day the New York papers still. con-
slider the story first-page stuff. Few
refined and ladylike women are ac-
| corded that distinction by the New
York press.
OF course. Mrs. Rankine disappear
ed from a limousine. That would help
some, but it does not account for a
week of publicity.
The war which was declared four
years ago .yesterdaXwa different in
would be over in three months
i At any rate, Charles G. Dawes, who
has been appointed by President
one former service man who hasn't
been forgotten.
To the list of radish- eaters we add
| the name OF w. j. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan s
press agent. stirred doubtless by, the
unfavorable publicity the column has
given it. says the radish is Mr. Bryan's
favorite food and that he eats it with
out salt but with plenty of butter.
So far as he has gone, Mr. BRYAN
has never been right a bout anything.
If he regards the radish as a food,
Norman Jeffries's contention that the
radish is an esculent may be accepted
as authoritative.
We don't Know why. but somehow