The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
by JAY .. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgss.l

How can you speak so slightingly
| of Mr.. Kohlsaat's fascinating remin-
iscences in the Saturday Evening
POST writes NJ. M, "wheE they con-
| tain such gems as the reference to
the tender solicitude President Nc
Kinley felt for his wife in her hours
of travail? Would you. I ask, under
similar circumstances know the So
cially correct course to take-arid
take it with such sang-froid? I, for
one, feel that we had never fully ap-
preciated President Mckinley before"
We find Mr.. Kohlsaats reminis-
cences tremendously Interesting We
hope there are other chapters to
come If thru them we have learned
who was president during the period
| covered, that gives to them additional
lvalue. The ideal marital relations of
| the McKinleys have been touched up
on in this column. 1t is only a little
| more than n year ago we made note
of the fact that while the late and la
mented Major Mckinley had been
president, governor, a member of con-
gress and the author of a tariff bill
which brought temporary disaster to
his party, he would be remembered
as the ideal husband. And we meant
1t in all seriousness. If what we hear
is to be taken at it's face value, good
husbands are mighty scarce.
Anything we write aDOut the NC
| kinieyS may be taken as authorita--
tive, too. We get it from Adelaide,
who used to live just around the cor
4 ner from them.
1t Was No More Than a Catnap.
Sir--Jove has nodded again. The
hero in Opening of q Chestnut Burr
was not a tenor, but a basso. You
will remember the losing of the road
In a snowstorn, the building of the
campfire and the songs in which the
embryo parson Joined with his rich
bass" 1t was then, too, if you recoI-
lect, he became engaged to a young
i woman who, at first acquaintance,
had made him a target for her jibes.
i read that immo ortal work at least
twenty times, and I'm not wholly sure
1 would not enjoy reading it again
4 Tempest and sunshine too, was
an old-time favorite to which my reac-
ton must have been very nearly iden-
tical with yours. Probably, I shed
moro tears Of pure joy over it than
any other Book 1 ever read And
John Halifax, Gentleman"-do you
remember that? 1 presume 1 have
read it from cover to cover fifty
times, but its charm is perennial
think, in all sincerity, it is the greatest
piece of fiction ever produced. If
you haven't copy, I'll gladly lend
you mine. E. B. s.
|
/ Opening of a Chestnut Burr was a
basso in the open and tenor indoors
we know a lot of fellows who talk
!; tenor at home and bass downtown
But surely E. B. S. remembers how
right in the beginning of the book
at the first church service, in point of
1act-the hero'S musical tenor rang
out above the droning voices of the
congregation, or words to that effect.
We have heard of "John Halifax
| Gentleman" but never read it, The
Youths Companion used to offer it as
a premium-probably does yet. For
one new subscriber and ten cents ad-
ditiona1 one could get John Halifax,
Gentleman" an t'Elsie' book, Samuel
Smiles ''Self-He1p," magic lantern
II bracket saw, toy steam engine and
many other articles of virtu. For three
new subscribers and twenty-five cents
for postage and packing one could get
a printing press and set up in business
for himself.
/ The Youths Companion always
spoke highly of John Halifax, Gem
tleman." We were crazy to read it,
but we never could get the new SUBJ
scriber.
We Appropriately TrembIe.
Sir-Permit no light reference to
the Rosicrucians in the column for
which you are responsible. Construe
4 this as request or mandate, as you
please. Accepting either construction,
you will avoid trespassing on ground
whereon an intruder cannot fail to
encounter grave danger The Her
metic Brotherhood has spoken. More
| than this I am not permitted to reveal
Verbum Sap. ROBERT FLUID.
Personally, we think the Rev. Dr.
Krauskopf is undu1y alarmed. So long
: as the people applaud honesty, cour-
age and virtue there is no reason to
be deeply concerned. And they still
were doing it the last time we at
| tended the theater.
The temporary detentfsn of Isadora
Duncan probably was a. foolish ex-
ercise of authority, but it is a matter
about which we find it utterly inpos-
| sible to grow indignant.
Isadora is one of those. Whether
she comes or goes, remains or re-
| turns, is, aS we see it, a matter of ex-
| ceeding inSiznificancel to her and to