The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-04
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAZZ z. HOUSE.
(Fron Phiiadelphia Public Lsdsae.)

We again make obeisance to that re-
markable woman. Mrs Warren G.
Harding Yesterday or the day be-
fore-it doesn't matter whieh-Mrs.
Harding, who is in Washington to sell
the house and furniture, picked out
the things they wanted to keep and
sent them over to the White House
And believe it or not, my dear, the
man hauled it all at one load.
Altho it inspires admiration, Mrs.
Harding's act of abnegation in permits
| ting her husband a vacation while she
attends to the moving is not without
precedent. Once when we were taking
vacation trip along the Pacific coast
adelaide acquired a new house and
moved into it. And the first night
after we came home we mistook the
back stairs for the bathroom door and
plunged headlong to the bottom. do
| ing considerable damage to the kit
chen utensils piled temporarily on the
lower step. But even Adelaides
| thrifty as she is, couldn't hold the
drayman to one load.
We trust Mr. Harding is cognizant
| of the fact that a jewel lights his life.
! Local athletic note: This week s
prize for the largest output of sturdy
language in given length of time
goes to a painter who was working
yesterday in the basement of Green's
| Hotel If the gentleman will call at
| this desk he will receive his memento
"a pink hallmark embroidered in pur-
pie violets.
We do not go as far as Governor
| Miller of New York, who has publicly
told the New York State League of
Women Voters that an organization
such as theirs is a menace to ~Ameri-
! can institutions. Due to the fact that
it Immediately enlists the opposition
and inspires the animosity of every
woman who doesn't belong to IL, no
league of women voters is likely to
prove much of a menace.
| At the same time. the quality OF
courage which distinguishes Governor
Miller's position compels admiration
He is, SO far as our observation has
| extended, the first public man to dis
card conversational emollient in talk
| ing to woman voters.
No wonder Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait and Mrs. Ella
Boole frowned at the Governor!
The incident gives us pause and
thought. Why not a Men Voters
League? We therefore suggest the
| immediate organization of the male
voters of the country with the object
of restoring to the men the rights an6
| privileges Vi WHICH tIiey nave Deen Qe-
prived and for the purpose of resisting
the further encroachment of the fe-
male sex. And until such time as g
permanent organization is effected, we
offer our services gratis as secretary
and treasurer of the cause.
Man today has not a single right OIL
privilege. His every act is subject to
the scrutiny of the women, who pre-
scribe the conventions he shall OBJ
serve and dictate the legislation which
governs his activities and his move
ments. The condition is intolerable
Let the freemen rise!
| ION an evening of black snow,
writes Amy Lowell, 81 walked along
| the eauseway, wishing that 1. too
might melt between the agitated
| fingers of a suffering, intolerable
sea-"
If Miss Lowell wants to leave il to
us, and pretty nearly everything IS left
to us nowadays, that's a fool wish.
Add High Cost of Prohibition.
From the Advertisement of a Phila-
| delphia firm.
Among our assortment of sterling
| silver pocket TASKS is an especially
| large one, capacity one quart. that can
lie carried comfortably in the over