The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY. E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

The announcement from Washing
/ ton that President and Mrs. Harding,
with some friends occupied a box at
Polls theater tonight stirs a reader of
the New York Tribune to action. He
holds, and very properly. we think,
that when the president goes to see
play the name of the play should be
given in the connection. We string
along on the proposition. The slip
shod reporting of the present day is
CALLING to an old-timer.
Dramatic, offerings in Washington
are matter of note and consequence.
When we were there. a week or two
lago, the leading and st-talked-of
Inlay in Washington was The Bird of
Paradise" As we cleverly observed to
a gentleman from the Pacific coast
who had two tickets for one of the
performances and was Boosting of it,
The Bird of Paradise is pretty
good play the first six times one sees
it. After that 1t is less intriguing.
In vaudeville theater the other
might We saw that sterling performer,
leCap'n" Adrian Constantine Arson.
The F.Cap'n" is seventy years old, and,
comparatively speaking, still a grand
ballplayer. We refer to the -'Cap'n's''
Iact to advise our co-humorist, Ring
IIardner, that those who are booking
it make the claim that he wrote it.
If we are any Judge of a vaudeville
act, and Heaven forbid that we should
| be, the claim of the booking agency is
laetionable and Mr.. Lardner is entitled
ITO recover.
+ A More Direct Lead.
| Sir--I was amazed to read in your
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| lady "out West that Sarah Bern
hardt was born and reared at a place
called Struthers, O., and l was<still
more surprised that you ''felr' for it.
Now let me nip this thing in the bud
! right quick. Sarah Bernhardt, as her
name SO plainly indicates. is of
Pennsylvania extraction and was born
at Emaus, Lehigh county, Pennsyl-
vania, where she lived until about
seventeen years of age. The older in
habitants of the place remember her
distinctly, and many of her relatives
! still live in that neighborhood. In
fact, the family name of Bernhard is
quite common in Lehigh county. She
was indeed, an unusually bright girl,
and her parents, instead of sending
| decided to send her to Paris to COM
| p1ete her education. This accounts
for the fact that she speaks but little
English. But she never forgot her
| mother tongue, and at least once dur
| ing each of her American tours she
makes it rule to visit Emaus, where
she spent her happy childhood days.
| OF these occasions she invariably, by
choice as well as of necessity, con-
verses with her old friends in Penn
sylvania Dutch, with but little trace
of foreign accent; and her childhood
aequaintances still call her by her old
familiar name of Sally. r. A S.
h We do not pretend to know how
much of the testimony in the Stillman
divorce case is credible. But we are
willing to believe the witness who
says he peeped three times into Mrs.
Stiilmans room in the hotel That
is one of the most highly esteemed of
small-town sports and pastimes.
| The pie-nakers have decided that
hereafter the same peach pie VIII be
served wherever pies are sold. Our
own curiosity in the matter is as to
whether the peach pie thus served is
to be the one with the ''gooey'' filling.
If It is, we shall continue to order
| apple.
It is true that many apple pies are
spoiled by cooks who neglect the
necessary Formally of thoroIy cooking
the apples before placing them in the
pie; but on the whole. the apple pie
OF commerce grades higher than it's
blood cousin, the peach.
Our notion as to how an apple pie
should be made is always good for an
argument at home. 1t ought to do as
well in the column.
The plight of the American soldiers
who guard the so-cailed castled Rhine
might be worse. They can't under
stand half the conversation that goes
on about them and they are not com
PEELED to listen to any of 1t.
The chilling effect of Mr.. HugheSs
note on the German cabinet is related
in the news. We shall endeavor to
match the incident with a renin-
iscence of the campaign of 1915 It
was a warm August day and Mr.
Hughes was speaking from the stems
of a middle western state capitol A
eonsid erabie crowd was parked in the
grounds below and adjacent As we
came up to the rim of the crowd we
met Bill Libby. He was threading
his way in the direction of freedom
and comparative solitude. Whats
your hurry. BiI2" we asked. k"rlI be
back" he retorted- I'm just going
home after my overeoat-"