The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

versations between father and daugh-
ter relate to money and the latters
effort to compromise for fifty cents
on the dollar. When Abe Stoneking's
daughter Mabel visited the office the
other day it was assumed that such
visit was in some way connected with
financial matters. But it turned out
that she had come down to go with
her father to the tailor shop and help
him pick out a suit of clothes.
There is a good deal of talk about
the isolation of the farm, but It is as
nothing compared to the isolation of
city Mrs. Buck Kilby ana Mrs. Eph
Wiley are great friends. Now mid
de-aged women, they went to school
and grew up together. Their families
were friends before them, and nothing
ever has occurred to mar the friendly
tween them. They live in West Phila-
delphia only six squares apart, but
they haven't seen each other since
they accidentally met in Cape May a
year ago last summer.
When Jab Swisegood went from
Garth to Blue Star to engage In busi-
that he was the most popular man
who had ever lived in Barth. 1t was
estimated that he had forty friends.
But if a man who lives IN a small
doing pretty well. If he lives in
city, he is doing pretty well If he has
three friends.
When men talk, they talk of them
selves. When they think, they think
about humiliating their enemies.
Men are pretty smart in other re-
spects, but when they want to know
whether a woman's hair is real they
have to ask their wives.
Jimmy Hoskins, son of the col
umn's oId-time friend, the Hen. Free
ling Hoskins, dropped in to see us
yesterday We never knew Jimmy
very well, and the last time we saw
him was at a football game some six
or seven years ago, at which he Of
ficiated in the capacity of a cheer
leader for the state university He
said he was just drifting around the
East, but was about to make an i'm
pOrtant connection with a big New
York house. When Jimmy came in
we decided he was going to ask for
him 81. But he only asked for IS
and got it.
HE is the sort of fellow" said Eph
Wiley yesterday in discussing Adna
Bolts, "who believes men get down on
their knees to propose to women"
Fathers of married daughters say
that in the matter of expense and
general damage one wedding equals
three fires.
The people of our neighborhood got
the shock of their lives yesterday. 1t
seems that seven or eight years ago
q girl named Sadie Apple, then about
seventeen years old, ran away from
home and disappeared, leaving no
clue. Various theories concerning her
disappearance were advanced; a good
many Idle stories were told. 1t was
generally believed she had either gone
to Los Angeles to be a movie queen
or that she was working the cabaret
circuits in New York and other cities.
For months our people went to the
motion picture theaterS in the hope
that Sadie would appear on the screen
Those who went to New York made
same thought in mind. But they saw
nor heard nothing of her, and it
finally became accepted as a fact that
Sadie had come to no good end. Peo-
pie shook their heads when they spoke
of her. Yesterday Sadie appeared at
the home of her parents with a. hus-
band and two children. 1t seems she
was married to a young farmer the
night she ran away and has been
living with him on a farm in New
j ersey about forty miles from Phila-
delphla, ever since. The people of our
neighborhood are greatly disappointed,
and they have reason to be.
Generally speaking, critic is a man
who can't do it himself.
Mrs. Ferris Linkliter always takes a
trained nurse with her when she trav-
els. Mrs. Linkliter has no family and
is perfectly well. She boasts of the
fact that she hasn't had an ache or
pain in thirty years. But she says one
never can tell what will happen.
A woman is disposed to be disturbed
about the state of the world. but a
man doesn't care much what happens
SO long as it doesn't happen to him.
When a mans wife tells him she is |
ready to go, he knows it is time for |
him to begin to dress for the party.
When we drove westward last fall |
we noticed that wherever we stopped |
in Indiana, Illinois or Missouri a |
crowd invariably gathered about the |
car. For a long time we attributed |
the attention we attracted to our own
and metropolitan ap-
pearance. Later it dawned upon US
that the crowds were attracted by the
It was a humiliating blow, but life is
ike that.
The fact that you have heard it
won't deter the man who knows
story. You might as well feign. igno-
rance; he'll tell it anyway.
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