The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
Football.

Sir-"Brenkart received the ball on
direct pass from the center and stood
for minute or two looking about for
some eligible man to whom he could
hurl the ball.'-Press report of W. j.
California game.
AS the rattlesnake struck, the man
stood for minute or two and then
leaped.
The butler stumbled and the hot
soup spilled on the neck of the guest.
| who, in a minute or two, discovered
| that his collar was wet.
With one foot plunged beyond the
brink of the concealed precipice, the
man stood for a minute or two and
then drew back.
AS the partridge whirred into the
air, the gunner took aim for a minute
or two and then pulled the trigger.
The dentists probe found the nerve,
and after analyzing the sensation for
a minute or two the patient said,
"Ouch!''
The blacksmith carelessly employed
a red-hot spike to pick his teeth. and
in a minute or two realized his err
ror VERITAS.
There is a certain gifted columnist,
a polished gentleman and a valued
friend.
Who, when he needs three or four
paragraphs to fill out his column,
|
And gets away with it?
The newspaper lads are panning the
New York furrier who turned fox
loose on Fifth avenue, and who subse-
| quently was arrested and sent to Jail
| for the offense. We don't quite get it.
| If the banning is inspired by pity for
| the fox, it is misplaced. A fox can
take care of itself. If it is deplored on
the ground of that it was an inanity,
that were surplusage. AS an inanity
and compared to many other inanities
of which New York is guilty, it was a
mediocre performance.
| Old as we are and sophisticated as
we profess to be, Fifth avenue always
| appeals to US as a great spectacle.
What must it be to a fox which has
never seen anything?
ct have avoided 'Jurgen' and Sister
| Carrie" writes Old Ed Howe. be
cause of their bad reputation Mr..
| Howe has taken an unnecessary pre-
caution. We read them because OF
| their bad reputation only to discover
| that we were unable to understand
what their authors were trying to do
Mr. Howe is smarter than the col
| umnist, but not much smarter. We
DOUBT that ne is ''lntelIecCuaI' enough
to recognize anything bad in either.
The worst bad story we know any,
thing about is running serially in one
of the woman's magazines. The Other
| night we ran out of reading matter
and turned to the current installment
of the story to top off the last half
hour of wakefulness. At first it seemed
a tiresome thing, but burrowing into
it a little deeper, we found it so de-
lightfully "bad" that we hunted III
the back numbers and read them al
before retiring.
To repeat, If we. jaded and blase a:
we are, found the story delightful
what must the ladies think of it?
Sergeant Alvin York's home has
again been saved from the mortgage
this time thru a subscription taken by
a Chicago newspaper. 1t is all right
with US; we'd as soon see Sergeant
York get the money as any of the
other popular beneficiaries. We &C
} farther; we'd sooner see him get it.
) At the same time. our picture Of
Sergeant York is spoiled. We have al
: along commended that a man who
} won't take money from vaudeville
should not accept it thru private Oh
public subscription.