The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-18
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY Il. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgeF.)

Occasionally, our search for the un-
usual discloses specimen of free mill
ing ore. On Saturday we were permit
ted to view spectacle of some public
interest to which no admission fee was
exacted orCaccepted. We refer to the
Army-K. U. football game at West
Point.
And, except the waitress who served
tea at the hotel there. was no one
upon whom a gratuity Light be be-
which cannot be duplicated in any
| other community in this country. 1t
seems to be worth a paragraph and
we hereby dedicate one to it.
Meanwhile, we continue work on
! the sculpture which is to be our mas
terpiece. 1t is a heroic figure of an
American citizen, a little stopped as
to shoulder, little gray at the tenn
| pie, with a hand in the right-hand
| pocket of his trousers.
The apparent solution of the New
Brunswick mystery is fortunate, but
| will prove unsatisfactory to the public.
| What the public wishes to hear is the
| worst that could have happened. The
| character and standing of the guilty
| persons virtually will spoil the muir
| der for many thousands.
| Probably you wonder how Senator
| Capper is getting along with his col
| lection Of the eleven billions of dollars
| which foreign governments owe this
| country. We find this reference to the
matter in Senator Gapper's own news
paper, the Topeka Daily Capital. Fol
| lowing the afternoon program" says
the Capital in its grand writeup of
the senator's Sabetha speech "'the SEN
lot {errIe act of hon of
/ ing of the S. C. Embroidery club
/ OF course, the senator can't be ex-
| pected to work for the country every
! his little relaxations. But Washing
ton does need the money.
e. w. Howe thinks the ambition of
every newspaperman in America is to
| be quoted in the Literary Digest. If
that is true. we trust the experience
of those who make the Digest will
/ be less disillusionfng then was ours.
The Digest once took one of ours and,
after disffguring it to. the point at
recognize his child, credited to bright
mind connected with another news
paper.
! We note, in our casual perusal of
| the New York papers, that Miller Hug
elected to be the goat of the New
York Yanks during the period of the
fall and winter semesters.
| A. Bogus yelling is in town for the
| purpose of establishing a factory for
the nanufacture of fine carriage har-
ness. We hope he will find the SO he
| borrowed from us ample for his pur-
pose.
The mystery of the Pennsylvania
miner who earned $3.50 in one month
| is sufficiently easy of solution. He
| probably worked every day he had
opportunity to do so.
A woman writer in the New York
Tribune wants baseball made compre-
| henSible to women, but it was a man
who turned to US in New York hotel
Saturday morning and asked us which
one of the Philadelphia teams was
playing in the series.
Personally, we are against the pro-
ject of making the game intelligent
to women. 1t would spoil about the
only really good thing there is left
! If you think there is nothing further
to observe or celebrate you are labor
ing under misrepresentation. This is
Better Homes Week and everybody Is
l
| ing.
| We sometimes doubt that the WON
en- are as wild as popular report cred
its them with being. We were invited
4 to a very pleasant party made up OF
agreeable ladies and gentlemen on Sat
urday night. But it didn't last long
AT $3.50 o'clock the women broke up
the party because they had to go home
and get their rest.
! We don't get in on many parties.
Is it possible that we have been misled
concerning the long -drawn-out scenes
of revelry that are supposed to accom-
pany them?
| When a man is stumped in an argu.
| ment he makes up a saying to sustain
his position and credits it to Abra ham
Lincoln. Lincoln could not have said
all the things that have been credited
| to him had he talked ten hours a day
and lived to the advanced age of 9S9
years.
A young man in our neighbo rhood
has gone to work and there is consid-
cradle excitement about it.
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