The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-25
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ jar z. HOUSE
(Fron Rhi,aaslphia Public Ledssf.)

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We have for disposal at this desk
the case of the Hon. Jack Dempsey.
who has offered to give a boxing ex:.
hibition in Paris for the benefit OF
stranded members of the American
lexpeditionary forces. The Hon. Demp-
seys proposal Is susceptible to many
variations in the line of treatment 1t
may be regarded as an insult or greet
ed with hoarse guffaw. 1t might be
treated humorously, satirically, sarcas-
ticaily. seriously or emotionally.
We prefer to disregard Mr.. Dempsey
in order that We may interpose pure
lily hypothetical case, to-wit: Why
should a "fathead," who shirked his
er intelligence, commendable personal
qualities nor the rudiments of decency
or gocd taste. be discussed in news
paper at all?
And so, for reasons which must be
obvious, we refrain from comment on
Hon. Dempsey's proffer and confine
discussion in the column to hypotheti-
cal and abstract subjects.
If the correspondent who signed
himself "F'' will communicate further
with the column he will learn some
thing, to his advantage. Yesterday
beautiful woman-a statuesque bru-
inette-panoplied in rare furs and ex-
quisite draperies came to this desk
bearing a gift in her jeweled hands.
She departed without giving her name,
| but left her gift behind her. The
package contained two made-up ties
one of red figures on a black back
ground and the other green.
If "F'' will write or get personally
into touch with this department Wen
confer said neckwear on him. 1t is his
kind.
Well.
| Sir-I- see by the papers that one
Owen Wister was a pupil in the first
class of the West Penn Seminary for
/ Young Ladies, instituted by Miss Ag-
mes Irwin In 1863.
| We have read Miss Agnes Repplier's
| monograph on reform in the current
! issue of the Weekly Review with ex-
| ceeding joy. Miss Repplier wields a
mean scalpel with great refinement
and exceeding delicacy of touch. But
\ we wish she hadn't attributed Lucy
Page CASTOR to Kansas. Kansas is
no more responsible for the self-Ap-
pointed Nemesis of the cigaret than
is Pennsylvania. She wasn't born in
Kansas and she doesn't live there. To
refer to her as a Kansas woman is to
do the state irreparable injustice.
| While we are amout it we might as
well correct certain of Miss Repplier's
| other erroneous notions concerning
the Sunflower state. Some of the best
smokers and most discerning drinkers
we have known among women live in
Kansas and have always done so.
The plan to increase Cal Coolidge's
forthcoming salary to $4,000 a year
is satisfactory to the column. The
vice president should have more
money. He is compelled to live in
Washington the year around, and at
the present rate of pay Mr.. Coolidge
tprobably would not be able to save
more than half his salary.
| Bill Reeder was the only man we
ever knew who could really save
money in Washington, altho this pro-
! nouneement is not intended as a re-
Election on Mr.. Coolidge, whose ability
| in that direction has not been tested.
Bill was a congressman in the days
when the honorarium was $4,000 a
year. The first year Bill was in
| Washington he saved $4,000.
He told the writer afterward, how
| ever, that his first year was the most
productive financially. II got in with
a fast crowd" he confessed, "and
| there were years in which 1 had to dig
| into my salary TO meet expenses:
couldn't live on the money the gov
eminent allowed me for clerk hire"
enter his dog in the kennel show. A
pessimist Is a man leading his dog
away from kennel show.