The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAZZ c. HOUSE
(Fron Philadslphia Public Lsdsss.l

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The request of the Sunday editor not
to write another common-sense
column for a month will be needed.
1t was a considerable strain.
The detail of David Belasco's furi-
GUS chase of q ticket SPECTATOR is set
forth in the news columns. II Mr.
Belasco will now whip q certain New
York barber and a New York editor
whose name we shall be glad to dis
close TO him, his debt to art YGs,be
cancelled SO far as the column u cen
cerned with it,
why didn't we whip the barber and
thus relieve Mr. Belasco of the added
responsibility Well, for one thing, it
was Sunday, and, anyway, we had just
time to catch our train.
You Will not, of course, be able to
understand what the day OF the week
had to do with it. Well, in the COM
munity in which we were reared it was
considered terrible thing to fight on
step a fight with Ed Fought on the
ground and it was a masterpiece OF
strategy.
Senator Dial, of South Carolina, says
Judge Landis> should be impeached.
otherwise you probably never heard
of Senator Dial, of South Carolina
A gentleman of the name Of Hard
ing was mentioned once or twice in
have meant nothing to. you. and we
take pleasure in Identifying him, Mr..
Harding is the gentleman who was
elected by the American people and
convicted by the New York World.
Nearly everybody 10 willing to ad-
NIT that the country Is In a bad way
1t is of general interest, therefore, that
H. Richards, Jr.. has plan FOR saving
it. Mr. Richards believes the thing
can be accomplished by the adoption
of the metric system.
We don't pretend to know what the
metric system is, but, since every
thing else has been tried, we urge
upon congress the enactment of q law
making the metric system obligatory.
We further urge the appointment OF
a commission composed of seven radi-
cal thinkers and an appropriation of
$1o,O00,0Oo for the purpose of erforc-
ing the law after it has been enacted.
That is the customary procedure.
1t might be difficult to find the
seven radical thinkers Indicated Most,
of the radical thinkers have already
been appointed to jobs in the Wilson
administration. But there should be
no difficulty about securing aa Hppro-
priation. At any rate. there never has
been.
|, The appearance at local theater of
an entertainment devoted largely to
the projection of back and thigh has
inevitably provoked much anatomical
discussion. We found the opinion of
one old-timer of especial interest. $50
far as 1 am copoerned,U he said the
| other night in the course of a discus
sion of the matter, there never has
been $3.S5 worth of that sort of thing
since the halcyon days of frankie
Bailey"
While we qualify as an old-timer, we
are unable to discriminate as between
the past and the present. About the
: only difference we notice is that they
are plumper than they were in the
halcyon days.
One inquirer is curious 10 know
whether Adelaide alighted at the West
Philadelphia Station or rode thru to
Broad Street. We haven't found out.
For once she struck without warning,
walking in unexpectedly at O'Clock
in the evening to find us sitting quietly
in the living room reading that tri-
umph of the obstetrical, the Cosmo-
politan Magazine.
We have wanted TO ask, but we have
been so busy explaining why the win
dow shades were pulled down. how we
CHANGED to have a wilted collar in the
laundry bag and the presence of a
used Pullman ticket stamped Boston"
in the wastepaper basket, that no OPP
portunity to do so has been vouch-
safed us.
This weeks prize for the most fool
ish suggestion goes to a writer in the
New York Tribune. He wants another
law passed.
If he will send his name and address
wo'li see that he gets the weekly prize,
a plush-covered toothpick holder.
There are exceptions to every rule.
but man with a prominent Adams
apple should not wear q wing collar.
The fact that woman is blonde
is regarded by other women as a sus-
picious circumstance.