The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY .. HOUSE.
(Fron Philadelphia Public Lsdess.I

The courts do pretty well. but their
processes are slow. II you are in
hurry to convict a man of an offense
try him before a mass-meeting Of his
| fellow citizens
Most any man is willing to give
three cheers, If that will discharge his
obligation in the circumstance.
Oliver Ellsworth died the other day
in little town out west. He had been
i'll long time, but he outlived by
more than twenty years the head of
the proprietary medicine concern to
which he once gave testimonial that
he had been restored to perfect health
by its remedies.
Shortly afterS Hill Gannoway was
married. now nearly thirty years ago,
his wife inherited two thousand dol
lars from her fathers estate. Mr..
Gannoway has always had a good in
come and his family lives very com
fortably. But two or three times
week his wife reminds him that he
would have a hard time getting along
| If he had to support her.
Probably the hardest way to earn
money is to marry it.
| 1t is tolerably well established that
4 Napoleon was g. man of small stature.
1t is known to a certainty that Abra-
ham Lincoln was not a college grad
uate. Why not let the matter rest
| there?
Give a man a decent income and a
former employer for partner in bust
ness to hate and he will ask no other
boon.
We are frank to say we DO not read
both sides of the question. We can
side-the side that sustains our pre-
conceived notion-and that is what
we do.
When a man loves a woman he
proves it by marrying her. But, not
infrequently, when a<woman loves a
man she proves it by shooting him
dead on the street or in a hotel room.
/ We work in an office where there
are a lot of male clerks. Frequently
one of them is called to the telephone,
which is within easy earshot of our
4 desk. We always know whether he
is talking to his wife. A man never
"coos" to his wife over the telephone
unless he is framing a scheme to get
out of prison for the night.
There is one fnviolabIe rule: If a
| woman loves a man she likes to wait
on him.
Tank Beverly, who is a great 1ady's
man. also has sort of passion for
computation. II am thirty-four years
DID, said Mr.. Beverly the other day.
81 figure have spent seven years
watching the doorway in which the
women with whom I have had en-
! gagements were expected to appear
Another way in which a man can
attract unfavorable attention to him
self is that of raising before the draw
/. We have listened to the mumbline
of the crowd a long time. From it we
have learned tflatNthe cardinal sin is
making money. The people will for
give a man for awning else no rrat-
ter what his offense may have been
Our own contacts with life have
been not especially noteworthy or dis
tinguished, but we once knew wo-
man who knew how to pronounce
<sQualor."
Mrs Bud Mears went downtown
early yesterday morning. 1t was TIN
beginning of her thirty-seventh con
secutive shopping year and she caugh
} the o'clock car instead of the 9:2(
: car, as is her custom.
HE is the best baby ever saw,
said ond father yesterday. "Ht
never cries before midnight and h
always goes to sleep again by or
O'clock in the morning..
Nobody but good looking 1s-year
old girl can make a street parade o.
: an errand.
1t is only fair to say Mrs. Adelaide
Gastons mince pies are not what thel
| were. There was a time when a bite
of one of Mrs. Gaston's mince pies wa:
q drink.
The figures are not yet at hand
probably they never will be. But we
!, feel no hesitation in declaring tina
the worlds record for spooning il
public was again broken during tbs
recent summer and early fall.
After a man has said a good thins
, he is satisfied and goes on repeating
/. it to the end of his days instead OF
. trying to build up a repertoire.
Attention has been directed to the
. fact that, after eight years, war has
ceased. What about the one between
! the men and women? It's still go
ing on.