The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

We are the most credulous of
human beings. We believe implicitly
the story of the Philadelphia gentle
man who says he went to sleep in a
box car in Harrisburg and woke up
in Omaha Probably had he not been
troubled with insomnia he would be
sleeping yet.
It is a good story and will recruit
large and enthusiastic following from
the ranks of those who imagine
Omaha is some thirty or forty miles
west of PittsburgR.
The Fascinating Scamp.
Sir-It is perfectly terribly about
the lounge lizards, but
A while ago was going golfing and
stopped at the curb while my COM
panion went into store to buy a pair
of golf stockings. While he was
within-and he was within only the
normal time required to buy one pair
of golf stockings-numerouS ladies of
varying degrees of attractiveness cast
| inviting glances at me, smiled at me
and even spoke to me.
I confess that it was unusual and
that was surprised. Neither I nor
my car is handsome, f1ashy or in any
wise fashioned to attract females of
any description.
To mage my point and have done
with it, why in heavens name call
men names SO constantly and let
! women 60 scot free? If there were
accurate statistics available, I'm sure
you'd find that more women have got
men into trouble than vice versa;
| that women start things oftener than
men. and that men don't usually
think of being naughty until women
purposely make them think of it.
H. H H.
Fortunately, we have never been a
party to any such scandalous- incident.
| We can't think it is as bad as III. H.
! H" makes out. We, have lived in
Philadelphia for more than two years.
We have continually been exposed to
the temptations of the town, going so
| far on one or two occasions as to pa
| troll the streets and hotel Hobbies in the
vicinity of which temptation is sup
| posed to lie. But we have never yet
been insulted by a woman. We go
/ further: we have never even been ac-
costed by one, altho opportunity to ac-
cost US frequently is presented.
However, we have always commended
| it takes two to make a date for
| luncheon.
Certain Ethics of the Marital Relation.
Sir-A billboard dip1ayed on the
| outside of a motion picture theater
uptown reads: Don't Neglect Your
Wife, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday"
4nSy 10 uOl uOE QdE0 IlOI dQN4SS US
| married heroes about the remaining
| days of the week. Can you counsel
US thru your column? 81.
We can and will. 1t is Adelaide's
| fayorites story that during the first
seven years of her married life she
never saw us except at mealtime. 1t
| was halcyon period. We were free;
she was content. Then we fell upon
an evil day. Thru force of circum-
| stances we were compelled to remain
at home forntwo consecutive evenings
That established a precedent. Since
then our plight has been that of every
other married man.
The moral, as we see it, is start right
and don't weaken. Il a wife isn't ac-
customed to having a husband under
her feet. she won't expect to find him
| there.
We are no Judge of the ethics of the
situation in which Judge KeIesaw
Mountain Lands is the storm center,
but we give the American Bar associa-
| ton leave to pass resolutions con-
Enumeration of SAP, 500 a year.
Notice.
From the New Egypt IN. J.) Press.
Mrs. Harry H. Emley, of Cooks
town, wishes to announce that the re-
port that her daughter Helen had run
away from home is not true.
MRS. HELEN H. EMLEY.