The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E HOUSE

BY JAY E HOUSE
| Rrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.D
|
what queries an excited GUS
i TONER. sis piquet?" Piquet, we re
! Join, is the game in which its holder
backs an ace-full once and then
throws it away.
Vers Lib
your vers nbre is not as good as
mine" writes David II. Wright, in
closing samples. We daresay Mr.
Wright is right about it, but we think
the verdict should be signed by an
! impartial jury To that end we re-
! prfnt a stanza or two of Mr.. Wright's
Centenary Tribute to Clara Barton:
/ In the wear Eighteen Hundred and TWEEN
A little girl upon the Christmas morn,
Her fathers name was Barton,
| And she was called Clara,
Domesday book.
In the War of Roses Barton 8 took part
They wore the Red Rose of Lancaster on
| their breast,
And so to little Clara the deep dark red
of the Rose OF Lancaster was her tails
OF course she taught school
Amid the lovely hills OF worcester
Then down in Old Jersey
| They heard of her in BordentOwn5
| The little Yankee school marin
who could hold bad boys with her charm,
| Rut her bows were never bad to her
! They were only restless, with the whirr
OF wild young cartridges as they leave
To iii fit and fly until they brood upon
To raise a covey of their own.
We purpose leaving it to readers OF
the column as to whether MI Wright OF.
the columnist is the ADLER vers horlst.
Upon one point, however, we concede
defeat and ask permission to withdraw
| from the competition: Mr.. Wright's
verse is much freer than ours. FOR
bona fide freeness he has US faded to
! a whisper
Run of the Mail.
Sir-F. D. S. wants to know if a
man with one leg ever dreams he has
two. Some time ago 1 dreamed /
made running leap for fast-moving
train, that 1 dived thru a closed win
dow, SCATTERING the pane of glass
and fell SPRAYING in the aisle. That,
I hold, was no mean feat (no joke
intended) for a man with one leg, the
other disabled one arm, an impaired
back and tuberculosis. f. P. 4
Sir-Is this unimportant enough to
intrigue your notice? Why should a
man send me an attractive and eX-
pensively gotten up catalogue of bar
gains and destroy all chance of SELL
ing me any of them by referring to
them as Xmas offers" Who was
* anyway? G ID. u.
Sir-Our- Pennsylvania license tag
probably drew quite as large crowd
in Quebec as yours did in the middle
west. However, the French-Canadians
could not make out whence we came
until one fellow better schooIed than
the rest shouted, "Penna, Penna, All,
PennamaH' H. j. M
! Sir-You spoke of a crowd gather
| ing around your car. Last year
went to Ipswich, Mass. in a peerless
Henrietta; she carried her Pennsyl-
vania license number fore and aft. In
the village one day crowd OF little
boys gathered around her and me and
had a violent discussion in undertones
Finally one boy thrust another for
ward, saying, You ask her, G'longi"
And he asked me: What does Pa
stand for? He says it's Pennsylvania
and say it's Panama
Speaking of awards. as we were a
time ago, it may interest you to know
that the hand-forged desk blotter
stays right here in Philadelphia.
| We strive to serve. If the sales
man attempts to sell you the new
! tangled pajama, don't let him do it.
This is the advice OF one he did sell.
When he began writing his story we
assumed Mr.. Tumu1ty knew what had
gone on in the White House. We re-
cast the conjecture and return to our
original position. 1t is that nobody
| knew.
Mr.. Bryan has been around Wash
ington a good deal lately. He has eX-
! pressed his reaction to raw gin. As
one who didn't learn much about it
until it was too late legally to do so,
we'd like to know what Mr.. Bryan
thinks of Scotch.
We notice. quite incidentally, of
course, that Henry Ford is having
another battle with the windmills.
That we have not hitherto protested |
the indignity heaped upon Mr.. Bryan |
is due to the fact that the news of II /
has just reached US. We take occasion |
to do so row. It was poor strategy
to fill Mr. Bryans glass with Holland |
gin. That he swallowed mouthful
I'M Wa HE5ck1