The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia PublicIedger-)
The Haverford College column.

Tho we could have rested in the
clustered calm of college walls, we'll
out of print, we suddenly awoke to
the fact that we had sold our birth
right for a pot of message. Here it
Is. We ask your kind indulgence for
it and hope that the elements will ia
vor Mr.. House and that he will do
eighteen holes in thirty-six. The sub
jects on which we are qualified to
speak are limited. We are authorities
on nothing, dabblers in many things.
spectators about all things
One of our number is greatly OPP.
posed to the present-day trend of
dancing. He was overheard to re-
mark, on viewing little dance in
Narberth, that modern morality is
exhibitions. We have not made many
careful observations, but we cannot
entirely agree with him: we never
noticed the one-tenth.
Our same friend is much distressed
by his belief that the churches and
synagogues of Manhattan could not
hold all the bathers at Coney Island
on a warm Sunday. He thinks that
cleanliness is next to Goodness, and
has put the cart before the horse
We have advised him to rebaptize
himself in his marble. tile and Stand
ard fixtured bathroom to the lofty
| phrase of 1bSen'S Brand:
| "On me no spot is to be seen;
The tub of Faith hath wash'd me clean;
Each splaeh has vanish'd. scraped aud
scored
On HolineSs's washing board;
In vigilance's mangle I
Have wrung my Adam ssvesture dry;
And shine like snowy surplice fair,
| Soap-lather'd with the suds of Prayer"
| We suggest that the Illinois Zionists
who are marching on New York to
reform the town take along plenty of
sulphur soap.
Never" says Artemus Ward, don't
do nothin' which isn't your Fort, for
| eff you do you'll find-yourself splash
in round in the kanawl, figgeratively
speakin'." We are tempted to think
! Unable friend, Mr.. Edison, is splash
in'.'' Altho we have the highest re-
spect for the opinions of Mr.. Edison.
| we feel that he is not an educator par
! excellence. 1t is a sentimentA open to
doubt that the calculation of the dis
| lance covered by man in a potato
race adds materially to education.
| Nor can you convince a colyumist
that a knowledge of the dimensions
of Beetlejuice is half as valuable as q
working knowledge of the space-fill-
ing qualities of those astral godsends
asterisks.
.s+.s*s+%*****.s%.
THESE are aSterlSkS:
/ Sstt*aaH S*&EHS*s*s
They are used to separate para.
graphs when YOU have Second
Thoughts" thus:
s%sss**sts&ss*s%ss
Mr.. Harding has made an enviable
record for himself thus far. Altho We
are not addicted to reading all of ey
erythine in every newspaper (the car
toons are our main loye-aside from
the Colyum), we have still been abb,
to observe four public acts of Mr.
Harding which should insure his place
in the hearts of all: He unveiled 6
statue of Bolivar in New York (thi:
4 the Zoo, but a South American gen
4 tleman of the same name); he gave 9
boy $50 to help build a. swimming
J pool; he rolled eggs on the Whit,
} House lawn; he taught mankind, say
ing, Service is the supreme commit
, ment of life
!. "A few days ago we were partial t.
organized labor. We lauded its aims
Possibly Robins Thinker with it
rugged, forceful symmetry, gave us al
idealized picture of labor. But all il
|, changed; we never heard labor talk
, except thru the newspapers. Las
week we asked Mr.. Gompers a Ques
ton concerning labor's stand on tn,
immigration problem, which couIs
words. The reply was a Telegram
which cost us SS.0s, including war tax
We shall never call him by long dis
lance phone. At last we understand
Z why silence is golden.
Have our readers ever noticed how
people pronounce WHAT? SOM
have it Whu-u-ut; others prefer thu
easier Wot; while occasionally come:
a concise Wut. We wonder how i
| ia u To
take of the subjective nature of tina
difficult word YES, of multitudinou
variations. (The musicians might say
If they thought of it. that the pronun
Citations of YES were variations o.
Dialect on a theme by the Englisi
language.)
We wonder whether the English