The Topeka state journal., 1922-03-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
dFrOn PhIadelDhla Public LedEsr.l


its bill of exceptions. filed at the time
the blurb concerning the Hon. Ruth's
honOrarium was given circulation, mas
been sustained by authoritative denial.
One of the Hon. Ruth's employers is
quoted as saying there is nothing in
the story of the $500 bonus and that
the heroS salary is much less than
the indicated figure. OF course, it will
take the truth five years to overtake
the burblings of the New York sports
writers, and by that time Hon. Ruth
will be playing with ST.. Joe, in the
Western League; but some slight con-
cession to truth has been realized.
1t is all unimportant. but not as un-
important as you think. If the pop
ular mind could be taught to discount.
to the extent of so to rs per cent,
every sports story carrying a New York
date line another victory in behalf
OF verify would be achieved.
We are frank to say we. don't know
what the American people would do If
they were permitted to know the truth
about the things that go on about
them. But as one whose quest OF the
unimportant is complicated by
never-ending search for the unusual
we should like to see the experiment
given fair trial.
The story in a New York newspaper
concerning the all-night country clubs
Philadelphia is creating some talk,
not a little of which is indignant.
Well, we haven't been asked to join
one of them either, but it had not
occurred to us to become annoyed be-
cause of the oversight.
We fancy, however. if those who
conduct the clubs knew our penchant
for staying up all night and were con-
versant with out ability to withstand
the rigors of a social evening with
out becoming garrulous, lachryma1
or messy" We should be besieged
with invitations.
yhu DtmrA etao eta eta ct ct etaoin
The Whispering Post.
G. B.-We feel the same way about
it, but obviously we cannot say SO.
H. B. Cit must have run down.
At any rate, so far as our knowledge
goes, there is no SUCH clock and never
was.
Bond.-If A. o. H. still is connected
with the Quincy postoffice, ask him
about it. He ought to remember us
well enough to tell you whether it
was a caricature or a likeness.
N. J.-If you were in our shoes, and
heaven knows we wish you no such
misfortune. would you print it? We
thought not.
"Ghost Quest Ends; Report Is
Awaited is a headline in a contem-
porary. Not by US; not by us. We
lost interest in the Macdonald ghost
when its sponsors failed to produce it.
Floyd GIotzbach, who married
Margaret Matzenauer a. year ago and
is reputed to be leaving her, is quoted
in Hhe esteemed Associated Press as
say Ag I'd rather be a chauffeur in
California than to dwell for ever in
the palaces of Babylon. Orchards
will thrive in hothouses, but wild
mustard needs the California SUM-
Again the speculative instinct
seizes and holds. Wed be willing to
hypothecate the old pay check for
the second week in June on the prop
osition that while the sentiment may
be Mr.. Glotzbach's, the language is that
of some reporter connected with the
Hearst newspapers
Mr.. GIotzbach is described as a
siX-foot westerner. Which is all right
since they always are so described.
But some day some reporter is going
to describe somebody as n five-foot-
eight or five-foot-nine westerner, and
he is going to create a journalistic
sensation.
The question as to what sum is re->
quired properly to clothe a working
girl is being discussed in many locaIi-
ties. The controversy is academic. A
girl can dress on whatever she has
and, no matter what the sum, it takes
all OF it.
Every once in a while you hear it
said, THE fools are not all dead yet"
1t is much worse than that. II the
fools voted together they could win a
election.
A fierce bull is harmless compared
to a gentle COW with a young calf by
her side.
Politeness dictates more laughter
than perception.
1t is true that Scotch gentlemen ex-
pose their bare knees to the gaze of
the crowd, but only Americans diYulge |
the Adams apple to spectators.