The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28


WITCH 1 hope he never does.
ON SECOND THOUGHT
III By JAY Z. HOUSE.
(Yrsn Philassiphia Public Ledsary
Very properly, we think, the Ameri-
can soldiers who tried to arrest Gro
yer Bergdoll now languish, actually
or constructively, in a German prison
Maybe the American army finally. will
| learn that it only gets into trouble
when it fools with young Mr.. Berg
doll.
1t is. of course. impossible to ap-
prehend and convict all of those who
have contributed to young Mr.. Berg
dolls annoyance. and Inconvenience.
But the occasional prison sentence il
is possible to inflict on such Of
tenders may have a salutary effect.
Newspaper publishers will be in
terested," writes our favorite author of
light and casual fiction, who is none
| other than Arthur Brisbane, ito know
that the circulation of the Hearst
Sunday newspapers has passed three
millions"
as " tIdL We CeSL { say. we QOn
pretend to know what interests the
publishers. But, writing as a re-
| porter, we have no wish to conceal our
own reaction to the statement. 1t is
| that there are just about three mil
lions of that sort of folk in this
| country.
Luckily. the country has a popu-
lation somewhat in excess of one hun
| dred millions.
| We Know Her Well.
Sir-If you are acquainted with Mrs.
| Fulmer, please add my congratula-
tons to yours on her courage in omit
| ting the radishes from her menu.
Can't we now find some hostess with
| the temerity to dispense with the
customary sprig of parsley which deco
rates the butter balls and the roast ?
r. E. r.
| Such hostess eventually will be
| found. 1t has been demonstrated that
| dinner can be served without rad
| ishes. That is long step forward,
| Desire on the part of other hostesses
| to emulate the courageous indepen-
| dence of Mrs. Fulmer eventually will
revolutionize the art of dinner giving.
I II we wrote feelingly upon the SUBJ
| 1ect 1t is because it is a matter that
touches us personally. We estimate
that in nine or ten years of married
| life we have paid for a thousand dol
T, lars worth of radishes. We have
never entertained a guest who ate one
! Nearly everybody is glad General
Leonard Wood is to head the Univers-
| ity of Pennsylvania. He is a very ef-
fficient citizen. whose capabilities as
an executive are well established
But the New York Tribune was the
only newspaper to signalize the Incl.
dent by kissing the ground on which
| the general walks.
That Reminds Him.
| Sir-I have made private inquiries
| and find that you cane from Kansas
or somewhere out there. I knew it be-
| fore I asked. It's all right; I'm not
| objecting and, incidentally, there is a
| great deal of interesting, instructive
and amusing matter creeps into your
| column because of 1t. Moreover. you
are bringing the great minds of the
| rolling prairies and the sea-girt states
closer together. But you do remind
| me of the man who came along from
| Danbury and married a widow who
| owned a farm near us up in Connect
cut.
| Wal, she stood him just as long as
| she could, then drove him out and
made application for divorce, and il
was granted on the grounds that he
was generally good for nothing. Her
main allegation, however, was that he
insisted upon having family prayers
| every morning, in the haying season
| too, with men at 81 q. day. and the
worst of it was he never prayed for
nothing or nobody but Danbury
| folks"
The psychology of this is positively
funny. You let any man living loose
| in a newspaper and I'll tell you in
| thirty days where he comes from; usu-
| ally can tell in five. H. G. H.
It may be that our writing betrays
our origin, but H. G. H. would never
| suspect, from merely seeing US. that
| we came from kansas or somewhere
! out there" We haven't worn a pair
| of buttoned tan oxfords with turned
| up toes for more than twenty years.
The reluctance of men to serve on
juries, stressed in recent news story.
is natural enough. A good many of
The others have no desire to med
! die with things that do not intimately
| concern them.
Are you tremendously interested in
the Stillman divorce case? Well, it
| is strange coincidence, but neither
are We.
The fact is, we have paid so little
attention to the Stillman case that We
have been, upon the occasions on
| which Adelaide has referred to IL,
| wholly unprepared to discuss 1t in
diligently in the intimacy of the fam
lily circle.
cit is plain to be SEEM says the New
4 York World, that President Harding
has no fiscal policy" To US the Worlds
criticism seems captious. Knowing
President Harding for the weak
minded, doddering. spineless creature
it persistently represented him to be
! the World could not possibly expec,
him to have a fiscal policy.
If the absence of any initiative OF
4 creative ability on his own part. 1t may
be that President Harding will be COM
PEELED to adopt the fiscal policy OF
the Wilson administration. Every
body knows what that was. It con-
II l.