The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY Z. HOUSE.
(Fron Philadsiphia Public LedsAs.l


handed Gopher Prairie an awful jolt,
fancies he is going to do the same by
Broadway. The job he now has in
hand is that of tearing New York to
tatters. We suspect Mr.. Lewis is go
ing to be grievously disappointed; he
isn't going to get any perceptible re-
action from his prospective victim.
New York doesn't care what anybody
says about it. Gopher Prairie. being
both intelligent and extremely sensi-
tive, does care.
We happen to know Gopher Prairie
pretty well. Mr.. Lewis's interpreta-
ton of it stirs in us no violent emotion
one way or the other. Main Street.
is Photographic as far as it goes. But
it depicts only one side of the street
the shady side. The sunny side of
Main Street" is a most delightful
place in which to lofter.
We suspect the trouble with Mr..
Lewis is that he is young. In ten or
fifteen years he will be able to see
both sides of the thorofare. We know,
because we have been thru it all. We
left Gopher Prairie with a feeling of
resentment burrowing in our soul.
We thought we hated the town. But
one day, years afterward, having the
notion to throw a brick at Gopher
Prairie, we found we had no brick. 1t
had crumbled in our hand. Now we
have only golden memories of the
town.
Mr.. Lewis will get over it. If he
he should be fully recovered in five
years.
The lifeblood of columnist GIBBS
and flows with the morning mail. He
looks to it for inspiration sufficient to
carry him thru the day. All this by
way of saying yesterdays mail was
disappointing. There were letters
from three persons who want to edit
the column and from two who seek
to revive the controversy about Shake
speare.
We assume the three persons first
in question want to edit the column.
At any rate, they told us how we ought
to run it. But no two of the three
agreed as to the exact method. Since
the doctors disagree. we make bold
to print our own prescription for their
benefit. The prescription has two in
gradients. One is-to be able to get a
job writing a column and the other is
to hold the job after you get it.
We shall not permit the controversy
about Shakespeare to be revived. We
have some regard for the innocent
readers of the column. We don't want
them to grow as tired of it as we be-
come at Shakespearean perform
ance.
Attorney General Daugherty be-
lieves, if everybody helps, bootlegging
will die out. Attorney General Daugh-
erty is right about it. If, in response
to the attorney generals plea, every
body refuses to buy liquor, the boot
leggers will disappear in ninety days.
But why the patter about it? The
attorney general knows nobody now
buying liquor is going to stop as long
as he is able TO procure it.
The trouble in this country largely
is due to desire on the part of nearly
everybody to conceal the facts in a
growth OF phraseologicaf underbrush.
There will be no objections from
the men if the church finally seliTni-
mates the word obey from the mar
riage service. Practically every man
who has tried it admits the plan is
impracticable. =
A father never remembers the ages
of his children. A mother OCCASION
ally forgets how old her daughters
are. But sister-in-law always knows.
tract large following Almost any
device for beating a corporation will
win a considerable measure of popular
approval.
Home, which formerly was the
sanctuary toy which the family turned
for peace and quiet and congeniaI in
tercourse, has now become the more
or less comfortable place in which
some member of the household &C.
casionally eats a meal.
Probably the most thank!ess and
least remunerative job is that of being
brother to a great man.
Along about the time he is twenty
two a man shoulders his gun and goes
out to shoot big game. About the time
he is sixty he comes back with an
empty ammunition belt and couple
of rabbits.
1t is entirely possible to take any