The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-05
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY e. HOUSE
{F3en philatsaphia Psbrc Lsdgss)

Those who reported the Hon. Calvin
|Coolidge's flight thru Philadelphia
speak in respectful terms of his sar-
thusiastic about 1t, but neither are
they deprecatory. The thing about
the Hon. Mr.. Coolidge which i'm
pressed them most was the very care
full study and attention he was giving
to the figures on the dining car menu
card. They agree that Mr.. Coolidge
seemed bit stagk cred. as it were.
But that. we should say, is natural
enough. The figures on the dining
car menu card are calculated to give
any citizen of Northampton pause.
It seems to US that, censid ering the
circumstance, the New York papers
are paying too little heed to the men,
tai indecision of j. Franklin Baker
Mr.. Baker, who has gone away a
couple Of time in recent years leav-
is again wavering in mind as to
whether he shall return to it. We
don't see the New York evening
papers, blut, striking an average, the
morning papers are devoting some
what less than two columns a day to
| the matter. That isn't enough, and
since Mr.. Baker is an old Philadelphia
boy. We give the incident such pub
hcity as the column is able to COM
mand.
We think pretty highly of Mr..
Baker. He is a fine character and
| was. possibly, the best third baseman
| who ever stood astride the bag to tag a
runner sliding in.
We never have any luck. When the
mob hanged Joe Bonnie and Abe Sow
ers We We're eating piece of cranberry
n q In IN mo- ~.
| room four blocks down the street. The
night the tornado blew Ripley City
away, wiping out that flourishing town
and piling up casualty list which still
is record in the tornado belt, we
We're making up the forms of the Rip
ley Grove Star and Argus in the office
in the basement of the First National
bank. We didn't even know it looked
| like rain until We came out of the
! basement and found the town gone
When the entire west side of Main
street from the Masonic Temple to
GuetteFs shoe store burned in Mount
Sterling we were asleep in room in
the Tinnen house across the street and
didn't wake up until s o'clock the fol-
lowing morning. We had an invitation
San Francisco. Portland, Seattle and
vancouver on a private car. We
missed the train.
|
Blythe would say. what chance have
We to see a president inaugurated?
We Say, fYes".
Sir-You say Mr.. 'Ford's approxima-
ton of history is that it is bunk"
| What, may l ask, is your approxima-
| ton of the following, taken from the
Los Angeles Times:
| III we are getting restless under the
| taxonomy of monocotyledonous wage
/ doctrine and cryptogamic theory of
| interest. with involute, loculicidal, to-
mentous and moniliform variants.
what is the cyptoplasm, centrosome or
karyokinetic process to which we may
turn and in which we may find sur
cease from the metaphysics of nor
mality and controlling principles?"
A READER.
A West Chester reader submits the
word ''batick'' for definition and in
depreciation. We strive to please, but
| 1t seems a waste of time. Those who
don't know what "baticlk" is don't care
to know.
Woman is a modest, shrinking crea-
ture incapable of cruelty. One cannot
speak too highly of her. But how she
does love to wear out an oriental rug
with an electric sweeper!
Col. Henry Watterson says Kit Mar
lowe wrote Shakespeare's plays. Which,
iii Colonel Watterson wishes to leave it
to us, is no particular boost for Kit.
Alta Boy!
Sir-Iurder will out, Ell, You don't
| like Shakespeare? Be consoled. Neither
do I'VE" And, Furthermore, if you must
have it, I'VE" don't like Dickens or
Thackeray. But I'VE" do like Herbie
| Wells and Ring Lardner. 1t relieves
our mind considerably to get that
off "our" chest. Are "we'' in good
company? W. NJ
We don't string along with w. NJ. in
his estimate of Ring Lardner, the big
stiff. About all one can say for Lardner
is that he's the funniest bird in the
world. That lets him out.
If he hasn't, W. NJ. should read
''W INSPIRING Smith" There's a book
for those who appreciate and under
stand.