The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger

in q New York hotel the other day,
and those who were privileged to view
the spectacle saw a slim, dapper fig
ure wearing spats, brown suit. soft col
lar and raglan overcoat. We don't
know how you feel about it, but they
practically have spoiled Mr.. Beauvais
for US.
We are not unaware of the great
work Mr.. Beauvais has been doing.
We do not wish to deprecate it. But
when an Indian guide takes off his
moccasins we lose interest in him.
In New York they are cleaning up
the saucer-shaped track for another
six-day bicycle race. Our interest in
the matter is not acute, but we shall
peruse the publicity of the event that
we may ascertain whether our favorite
six-day racer. Oscar Egg, is in it.
You remember our notion about
that? Or. mayhap, you don't remem-
Der it. Well. we hold, if there must
be six-day bicycle races, somebody
named Egg" should win them. The
fitting and appropriate ever challenge
our zeal.
One of the columns regular Gus
toners reproves it for taking no part
in the dog argument" 1t would
have been necessary to abrogate Rule
No. 10 to do so. We settle the dog
question" once every seven years. We
had it up in this column in 1918. We
are not due to dispose of it again I'M
It'll 1925.
The column extends it's congratula-
tons and its Fluctuations to the distin-
guished Philadelphia gentleman who
declined to act as POSTMASTER at the
Babe" Ruth dinner. We sometimes
despair of the so-called human race;
but always, just at the moment when
it appears to be slipping over the
brink of the precipice, some sturdy
figure endowed with a sense Of what
is fit and appropriate, rises out of it
to check, if not entirely to impede, its
descent.
The wolves should go into winter
quarters in high good humor. What,
with one thing and another, they have
had a highly profitable season, and
good pickings are promised for the
spring. Mr.. Dempsey is reputed to be
exacting a fabulous salary for a win
ter season of vaudeville, and will be
waiting for somebody to take it away
from him.
at is my experience" writes r. N,
that if Adelaide had happened to
give the overeeat away, Adelaide's
husband would have been asking for
it within week
Probably that is true; but there is
one thing we never have been able to
understands: Why can't a woman let
her husbands old clothes alone? An
old suit or a pair of discarded shoes
in a closet is as great a temptation to
a woman as drink to a drunkard.
An Intriguing Proposition.
The reporter who writes the column
lett
which he takes the liberty to print:
't- The Macksville Enterprise
A. L. Mcmillan, Publisher
Macksville, Kan.
Dear Sir-From information which
I have gathered from one source and
another it is ny belief that you must
be the largest single holder of propo-
sitions on the continent.
1 have one to make to you. This
office is q rip-roarin' good one, and
doing good business, but she is not
balanced. The writer and another
helper-both past sixty years of age
are old-time printers. To shorten this
paragraph would call your attention
to copies of the Enterprise sent you
under separate cover.
The paper needs an editor, and here
is the proposition 1 am offering you.
The publisher pFides himself on the
fact that he is manager and can
and always has-dug money out of
W
gally as you and me can live we'll and
save some The plant, building and
all, is valued at about $4,000. There
isn't penny of Indebtedness. If you
will come to Macksville and take the
job of editor you may have a clear
title and a bill of sale to half in
terest in the business. Would want
you to agree to stay ten years. At
the end of that time I would buy your
interest back if you should wish to
return to work.
I might offer many other induce
ments, but copy is in for a double-page
ad for next week, so must go to work.
It's glad game here. Think it over
A. L. MCMILLAN.
1t is a violation of Mr.. McMilan's
confidence to print his letter. but we
believe the object we have in so doing
justifies the act. Many have sought to
induce the editor of this paper to
decorate US with the order of the bat
tered tinware. The urge to have US
fired" seemed always to be predicted
on the idea that should We lose this
job we couldn't get another. We print
Mr.. McMillan's letter to prove that
were we separated from the payroll
today--and today is payday-we could
be reclining on a bed of DOWN
couch of goopus feathers-by THURS
day evening at the latest
And. we confess, the offer allures.
We leave it to readers of the column
as to whether We shall go or stay.