The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-22
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY =. HOUSE.
eFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.l

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Alumnus.
Bad taste changes little from gen.
Grafton to generation, but it occasion
ally clothes its manifestations in new
physiological garb. The old-fasn-
toned man referred to his wife as the
woman" His snappy.- up-to-date
modern prototype speaks OF her as
the wife" or friend wife,"
II mans wife doesn't love him he
is miserable and unhappy. II she
does love him he is perpetually de-
PENDANT on trial in the court of do
mestic relations.
the Don't Worry club. but resigned
years ago. We couldn't bear to be
connected with an organization de-
signed to make the people unhappy.
Yesterday we spent thirty minutes
in casual conversation with man.
We made careful note OF what was
said. NeitheS of US had a thought
or worth expressing. Most converse
ton is like that.
We don't blame women for, getting
dogs job. But here is something
for them to think about: If a woman
were not keeping house for a man,
what would she be doing?
A man came in the other day with a
new doctrine. 1t had to do with
money and was designed to make ev-
everybody rich. Failure" was printed
wasn't necessary to look him over to
realize that. No successful man has
time to fool with doctrine.
After the average man has talked
about himself he is thru until it is
time to talk about himself again.
The prettiest picture is that OF a
woman putting baby to sleep.
We don't know whether it is justi-
fled or not, but we have heard COM
plants that President Harding wears
his trousers too long. Probably the
complaint has some basis in fact.
There is always something wrong with
q mans clothes. There are tailors
who can make coats, tailors who can
make trousers and tailors who can
make vests. But no tailor ever lived
who could make all three.
A man goes home tired out and de-
pressed because his business isn't
running Just right, and his wife won
ders what woman he is signing for.
We always attributed Senator Eek
Harbison's political success to his lat
teral handshake. Senator HARRISON
can love" a constituent, pass him out
OF the presence and into the next room
with one motion. Most public men
have three motions in getting rid of a
constituent. and, as a consequence,
few OF them last long.
Patience and application are rare
virtues. Somebody must pick the red
raspberries.
We've tried saying, i've heard it."
but the man who knows a story will
tell 1t anyway.
We are in favor of the eight-hour
day. but we doubt very much whether
employers will ever be able to get it.
body is going to work eight hours
day in this country.
If a man wishes to entertain a
woman all he needs to do is to take
a piece of machinery and explain to
her how it works.
We have our faults, but when we
left the town in which we formerly
lived we did not tell them we were
coming east to accept position. In
stead, we told them We were coming
east to try to make good on a job we
for three months.
Men know they smoke too much
and eat too fast. They ought to. They
hear it every day of their lives.
There is a good deal of talk about
the " of but the animal has its points
No movement for the purpose Of TAX
ing up a popular subscription to re-
lieve famine among the wolves is ever
organized. The hat is never passed
to enable the wolf to live thru the
winter.
Two or three years ago we asked,
when the property is divided, that we
be given the Philadelphia-New York
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
We have since decided that we do not
care for railroad property. Wen look
around and pick out something else.
The late war settled one question
that had been in controversy for years.