The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

| (From Philadelphia Public Ledger)
| We trust we shall not be accused of
advertising Mr.. William H. Allen. of
| BALI Walnut street, Philadelphia if
we made a brief reference to his
trade, which is that Of a dealer in sec
ond hand books. When his catalog
came to us we tossed it in the waste
| basket. AS rule, we pay no atten-
| ton to dull looking catalogs printed on
faint blue stock. But finding no wal
| lop in the news, we retrieved the cat
alog for the purpose of a casual scan
ming. There seemed to be nothing else
to do.
| This merely is to record the fact
that with it we spent a rose-colored
hour. Mr. Aliens running comment
] on his stock in trade proved SO much
more interesting than the news that
we pushed all of the newspapers off
the desk. He notes the ownership of
a presentation copy of Fables in
Slang to Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Goodwin.
| (which one," he says in speaking of
Mrs. Nat, lis not specified" Catalog
ing a copy of Leaves of Grass" he
says Walt Whitman, like other men
| of the same initials, had no critical
sense, but mistook himself for sybil."
OF Casual Essays of the Sum-" a
| collection of editorials appearing in
| that luminary in Dana's time, Mr.. AL
len says, it is amusing to see the YER
bose and frequently Oriental Times
trying to be flippant or sarcastic in the
style of Dana" Chamberss 'Iole" is
/ described as sweet. and refreshingly
clever" When we read it, now some
! twenty years ago, we merely wondered
what Chambers was trying to do. Ri
ley's fRhymes of Childhood" are char
acterized> as IS. and W. poetry of the
most maddenipg variety"
OF the "Humbler Poets" a colIec-
| ton of newspaper verse 1S70-1ss5, Mr..
Allen says "there is not a poem one
can't Understandable not one that
| one wants to-" In the Memoirs of
Count Grammont." on page Sc to be
exact, he found a conversation exact
/ ly like the one in "How He Lied to
/ Her Husband" Upon the margin of
| Colonel Harvey's Power of ToIer-
lance" he has written, After the com
plete defeat of Wilson last November,
Colonel Harvey hardly needed an am
bassadorship to make him happy"
/ We probably shall buy no books,
i but we acknowledge our obligation to
this dull-looking catalog done on faint
blue stock. 1t made the day for us.
1 The return of Mr. Cullen Cain from
Manhasset fills us with apprehension
Mr.. Cain, who recently visited the
training quarters in Atlantic City,
emerged with the soles of his shoes
only slightly dampened. We shall
read his Manhasset story in fear and
trembling. He talks like a man who
intended to get his feet wet.
4 Meanwhile, in the offices of the
newspapers in which Dempsey's own
story is appearing the workers are
almost submerged. ~
|
4 Doubtless it is expected that we will
comment in some fashion upon the
forthcoming nuptials of Miss Gladys
Deacon and the Duke of Marlborough
but the only thing we can think of is
that marrying the Duke of MARI
borough has not hitherto been an un-
!; qualified success.
John D. Rockefeller on Wednesday
visited his boyhood home near Mo.
ravia. N. Y, and showed his grand.
children where he earned his first dol
lar. Unfortunately, the rural CORE
spondent who covered the story lacked
Imagination. Had he been a snar
city reporter he would have had Mr.
Rockefeller show his grandchildren
the dollar.
The rural correspondents are al
right, but they are slow in mastering
city tricks.
Owen Moore, who was robbed of {
diamond in New York the other day
has bad luck with his jewelry. His
loss of a pearl necklace in Nevada {
little more than a year ago was fea
ture in the news.
We have never seen the lady and
know nothing about it, but the pres
agent who is advertising Miss Mildred
l Harris as the most beautiful woman
: in the pictures isn't proving it by hi
= photographs.
5 The news that there are sixteel
t eggs awaiting US in storage has beef
!, established by one of the eminen
staisticians We refer to the matte
I merely to decline the challenge. Weir
a tough bird, ready for almost any
thing, but a storage egg is one hard
. >ship we do not intend to undergo.
, -Five Republicans voted against tn,
measure writes the Washington
bureau. "They were Capper. Lenroot
: La Toilette, Norbeck and Norris
Probably they were right. about it. I
: may very well be that it was baC
. measure and merited defeat
: The thing that grinds the column
: reactionary soul is to see La Toilette
tCapper and Norris classified as Re
publicans How did that story eve
get started.
: Which reminds us that zero in flu
ti1ity has again been achieved. thi
Y time by q New York woman who il
= trying to prove that she is an indie
: pendent Democrat.
] | JUST FOLKS !
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