The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

frank confession that MS WlIe Is ms
severest critics We have just read. Will
not get the fallacious idea that he has
a copyright on that distinction. Mer-
ton will find, the first time he dis
cusses the matter confidentially with
the boys. that a lot of them are max
ing the same complaint.
Poor Merton's position is. of course,
more parlous than that of the average
married man. Merton has no init
mate gentleman friend-apparently
no gentleman friend of any sort-on
whom the blame for leading him
astray can be placed. 1t is not alone
that he must carry his cross; he must
also supply it.
We see by the papers that the old
fashioned round garter is coming
back-in fact, is already here. Prob
ably we shall see little of it; our IA
cility in observation is not what it
was. But for purely sentimental rea-
sons we welcome it.
Back in the prehistoric days, say
those of twenty or twenty-five years
ago a pair of silver-mounted or be-
jeweled garters were considered the
most audacious gift a middle western
Lothario could bestow upon his tenn
porary Adelaide. 1t was. of a fact,
considered the smart devilish thing to
do. Achieving always high level of
au0acity, we probably bought more
than our proportionate share of gar
tiers. We do not now recall the de-
tails. but it is likely our gross output
ran into dozens of pairs.
AS we have indicated, the theme
touches the well of sentiment that bub-
bles always within us. And so We are
going to ask the Adelaides of the nine
ties to rescue from the discard such
furnished and faded mementos as stir
sleeping memories of a certain donor
and wear them again for one day on
May s of this year.
Throw this in the waste basket, -
writes A. NJ. S. We shall do no such
thing. We shall put it with the 9TH
ers in cherished files. and when our
and blink at the sun we shall read
them all over and over again. Those
who commend the column get into
tEkn files: those who abuse it get their
letters thrown on the floor.
Possibly you were expecting US to
write a paragraph concerning the at
tempt of the Episcopal Revision COM
Inittee TO eliminate the word "obey"
from the marriage ceremony. If so,
we shall disappoint We wrote a para
graph about it in 1899. We have dis
cussed the matter in from one to three
photographic references every year
since. We feel that is all that may
reasonably be expected Of us.
Our offer to become enthusiastic
over the future of baseball for S42.5
a year having met with no response,
we submit an amended proposition
In view of the fact that living costs
are coming down. and may reach pre-
war levels within a year or two, we'll
engage to be enthusiastic about the
futgre of baseball for $4,000 a year
We are not advised as to the rights
and wrongs of the coal strike bur
we think we understand the attitude
of the operators in the matter. They
want to try running their own business
for a while.
Rose Coghlan.the New Y DIRK papers
say, is i'll and facing want in her room,
for which they also designate an ad-
tresses live in rooms, but this is the
first time the New York papers have
conceded it.
In a New York paper an actress al
ways lives in an apartment.
Word from Louisville is to the effect
that the enthusiasm of the gentleman
burg and Hohenzollerns!" carved on
the statue Louisville purposes erecting
to the memory of ''Marse Henry Wat
terson finally has been curbed.
"Marse Henry will get his statue.
but the inscription still is on the lap
of the gods.
Judge Landis' professed enthusiasm
over the future of baseball is natural
enough. We are no enthusiast when
it comes to that. but we could give a
cracking good imitation of enthusiasm
il we had a. seven-year contract to be-
lieve in baseball at $42,5oO a year.
We have in mind a much more diff
ficult feat. The judge is an able en-
thusiast-we should say one of the
ablest. Let him move to Philadelphia
and try to be enthusiastic over base
ball for nothing.