The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)


( joy his society most Cullen Cain is
| out OF town In his absence there is
no one around who cares enough
about baseball to discuss with us the
poets of the Ruth case. If he were
here we should express to him the
opinion that Ruth is more to be pitied
than censored. The king who is tot
tering on the throne to which he never.
had any legitimate claim is the vic
tim of hokum peddled irf6iscriminate-
ly by the sporting writers and credu-
lous public.
Ruth is headed in the direction of
st. Joe. He may consume some time
in the journey. He would have got
there eventually in any contingency.
But as a result of the attempt to cut
silk pajamas from stone-fla gging, he
will reach the vicinity of the Western
league two or three years in advance
of his natural time.
That being settled, what is the fur
ther pleasure of the meeting?
Law-making consumes the attention
of the congress. and to a lesser degree,
that of the legislatures of forty-eight
states. Sixty per cent of the laws
passed are designed to aid the poor in
their perennial battle with the rich
Seventy-five per cent of the remainder
are placed on the statute books with
the idea of protecting women from
men, Wiping out the sex line in the
laws is no favor to the ladies, if Miss
Paul cares to leave it to us.
Considering the manner in which
the laws discriminate against them, it
is surprising how well the men get
along.
There are moments of relief in the
news. 1t is not yet said that the
Jenkintown bank building was set on
fire by q. cigarette; but doubtless that
theory will be advanced at some later
date.
We string along with the contribu-
tor to the letter-box who believes sig
nails are quite as likely to come from
Venus as from Mars. It is so seldom
we are able to agree with public
opinion thus expressed that we make
a note of the fact.
On the whole, Venus being a lady,
we should say the likelihood were
greater. A man can sit with his head
in his hands, but a woman must talk
to somebody.
Probably Mr.. Secretary Weeks is
entirely sincere in his advocacy of
beer and light wines; but most of those
who are talking beer and light wines
are really looking for more definite
results.
President Harding will spend the
Fourth of July on the front porch
Following the instinct inbred in his
kind thru many generations, Iadd1e
Boy, will, we assume, spend the
Fourth Of July under it.
Give a man his choice of anything
he wants, and he will select the priV1-
lege of saying, "I told you So"
Politeness dictates more laughter
than perception.
It is all right to speak of modest
worth, but the saxaphone player at
tracts more attention than the violet.
Mrs Tug Watts says the crime of
the Indiana man who shot his father
ten times cannot be too severely con-
demned. Mrs. Watts holds that seven
times are as many as any father
should be shot,
Every time country dog hears
that town dogs are bathed regularly,
he laughs his head off.
If you wish to humiliate a man, cir
culate the story that he has been Tilted. |
The idea that there is a woman in the
world who wouldn't marry him never
enters a mans head. He can have no !
greater humiliation than the knowl- !
edge that the fact is public property. !
When it comes to a fight, the weak |
est bystander often is able to hold the |
strongest combatant