The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-29
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY y. HOUSE.
(Fron Philadslphia Public LadSae.l

We seem to grow mellow with the
years. Moments when we are over
infrequent. Probably that is the rea-
son we are not much disturbed by Mr..
A. B. Sees denunciation of the
woman's college. If he is right about
it, nobody will pay any attention to
him. In this country to be sound,
sane and sensible is the surest way to
be forgotten. Perhaps it were better
to say it is the surest way to escape
public notice. If he is wrong, he
probably don't do the woman's col !
lege any harm.
The college women we have known |
knew a great many things that are
not true. But, despite the fact that |
we were spared the indignity of a col |
lege education, they knew no greater I
number of things that are not true l
than we knew at their age. And, we /
add as the impulse to make a clean
breast of everything surges within us, |
we know some of them yet.
We have been no great friend of |
the womans college. The grandest
row we ever had with Adelaide inn
pinged on the question as to whether
if we had a daughter, we should send
her to a coed school. 1t began on a
wednesday Eening. We did not
again speak to each other until the
following Sunday afternoon. But we /
do not assume to say what other peo-
pie who have no daughters shall do /
about their education I
The discovery that George F. Bab-4
bits middle name was "Follansbee"
was the inspiration for much light Il
and airy persiflage in Zenith. The
Boosters laughed their fool heads off
about it. But the discovery that Sena-l
tor simmons first name is "Furnf- Il
fold likely will pass unnoticed except Il
for the brief mention accorded it here h
The Imperfect Analogy.
Sir-A disinterested onlooker has
suggested that you, when you go /
duck-shooting, probably would like to
have the birds line up on rail fence
so you can shoot them off one by one. 4
rather like the idea. Just think how ]
much fun duck-shooting would be if T,
you could arrange to have the ducks
come into your own back yard! 1t is
entirely possible that you might be I.
able to shoot them without getting out /,
of bed. A. c.
We used to do good deal of duck
shooting. Once we killed a duck, a
fine mallard, which dropped across
the river, but having neither dog nor
boat, we were unable to retrieve it. i
Cliff Manlove, who had gone shoot
ing with US, said it was a remarkable
shot. He talked so much about it that
we never did tell him the gun went
off accidentally.
But the thing we set out to estab-
fish was that we used to do a good
deal of duck-shooting. In the spring
and fall flights many flocks of ducks
and geese failed to hesitate at our
humble address. They narrowed the
sky at height so remote as to be
out of range and out of earshot. But
always there were q lot of suckers
shooting in the bottoms who, having
no sense of distance, could not resist
finn a ryox nf o. T..
animate object within the range of
their vision. In the course of a single 4
Afternoon we've heard the reports of a !
thousand rounds of ammunition dis
charged at ducks flying a mile high. r
The average golfer playing one of ,
these desecrated courses is shooting at
ducks flying a mile high. And he's a
sucker to do it. For President in 2
1924: Samuel G.. Blythe of Califor-
mia and the Waldorf-Astoria.
Our Attic.
By Dale A. Lindsay
About a year ago I went up to our 4
attic which is very interesting as 1t
has a collection of odds and ends and l
L walrus tooth, at least 1 think it is,
about three-quarters of an inch longl i,
and a quarter wide There is one l
place I always visit as it has a COL I
ection Indian arrow heads and the
Walrus tooth is there. "
friend of mine and I have a good
ieal of fun dressing up in the old 4
clothes and making houses out of the =
bundles There was an old board in
he corner of practicly no use to us, c
,ut my friend proposed that we make
slide out of it. I answered in the
affirmative and the plan was put in l.
o execution. 90
The attic, sight-see-er of all the
,ames that went on in it, has brick A
ides and posts are in the middle In
he middle reposes a pile of trunks
nd bundles At the front and a lit u
lie to the side is a skylight.
That's pretty good, Dale. Let usl
Iear from you again. We fancy a