The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-28
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public LedEer.l

The Spiker case again is news. In
its most recent development it bears
upon one of the columns cherish I'd
theories. Much was made of Mr.
Spiker when he took Mrs. Sp.ker to
wife. The nobility, magnanimity and
the unzelfishness of his act were
played upon. He seems to be all that
was claimed for him. At any rate.
Mrs. Spiker has run away and left
him.
The point. as it d 'scloses itself to
us. is that when they are too good
the women can't bear them.
Not That 1t Is Important.
Sir-In The Hoosier Schoolmaster,"
by Eggleston, page AS, you'll find. I'm
be dog-on'd," and footnote. Like
many of the earmarks of this dialect.
the verb ''dog-on" came from Scot
land. presumably by way of the north
of Ireland. A correspondent OF he
Nation calls attention to the use of
~dagon" as Scotch dialect In me
Little Minister" On examining that
story 1 find that the word was pre-
cisely the sense of our Hoosier
| "dog-on." ]. F. B.
Refusal on the part of the chief of
| police of Stamford, Conn, to permit
Rose Pastor Stokes to make a speech
temporarily renews interest in Mrs
Stokes. A lot of people will want 10
know how come she never served the
term in the penitentiary to which she
was sentenced.
And. despite our reputation for
presc 'ence, we can't tell them. But
we assume there are perfectly salts
factory reasons.
A New York woman wants $2.5oo. 900
for having kept a secret, and has
asked the court to give it to her. We
trust the courts will order the money
paid over. Those who pretend to
know about women agree the lady
| earned 1t.
| However, we take no stock in the
whim- wham to the effect that a
woman can't keep a secret That is
the third Oldest joke in the world and
one of the poorest Except in the
matter of her own indiscretions. a
woman can keep a secret as we'll as a
man-maybe better.
| But if it is anything about herself, a
woman must tell it to somebody
At the Nineteenth Hole.
Sir-Y esterday 1 shot an 81. my
first time under 80. 1 note what you
say about the man with whom you
played and he had a 76 and the man
DeHlHQ WnOIl you pldyed anu ne H1u
a IS. How do you know there is
more fun in around 100" when you
have never had Sc, a 76 or even an
81? It's just like saying you like APP
pie pie better than BURBERRY pie
never having tasted the latter
shooting around 100" means 1oS te
100. I know, because I was there
three years, and it always sounded
good when I told it. Maybe I'll never
break 80 again, but the one time
did it it was 'blueberry pie"
What does the gent mean we never
shot an 81? We shot an "a in oul
first year at golf, and it spoiled the
game for US. -
1t is at this season of the year thai
man lays away his straw hat and
surrenders himself to the delusior
that he is going to have it cleaned an6
wear it again next year.
We observe. in the connection, tina
President Harding was wearing his a
the time the New York papers tool
his latest picture.
Probably the mildest punishment
was that inflicted by the Ku Klu1
Khan when it automatically barred
Jews and Catholics from its member
ship.
The Imperial Wizard of the Khan
so the story runs, was first an eX
horter, then an insurance agent ant
afterward a solicitor for a fraterna
insurance order. There are many ex
cellent citizens in all of these pro
LESSONS and callings. but the timer
ant performer Is nearly always thu
| t--pe in which fanaticism is evolved.
Colonel Simmons evolved a new lay
He seems to have a thin streak o.
originality. Ordinarily his type get
into politics wearing the reform oil