The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Phiadelphia Public Ledger.l
The News ofOur Neighborhood.

is capable OF IrdnSacLln8 business aLd
as soon as the authorities get around
to- it, which will be within a day or
two, he will be taken to a hospital Tor
the insane. A year or two ago Mr..
Andrews and his wife met a couple
named Stone. They were nice agree
able people and Mr.. Andrews liked
them. But for some reason Mrs. An
drews SUSPECTED her husband OF flirt-
ing with Mrs. Stone, altho Mrs. Stone,
who is a young and attractive woman,
probably wouldn't look at Old George,
who is q plain, ordinary old codger,
well along in middle age. So the in
timacy was broken off and the An
drews haven't seen the Stones for
more than year.
Nevertheless. Mrs. Andrews pea
sisted in discussing the Stones. Regu-
iarly, two or three times a week, she
has asked her husband if he has seen
Mrs. Stone. She has pretended to be-
entertains her downtown. Old George
stood it as long as he could, but finally
cracked under the strain and likely
will be in a hospital for the insane as
long as he lives.
Mrs. Adam Gamblers believes great
good will come from equal suffrage.
She thinks maybe the women will con-
tinue to divide at the polls on local
issues, but that they finally will get
march in a soli5 phalanx against the
forces of sin and evil. Mrs. Cam
bern's most intimate friend is Mrs.
Mapes Wells. They are botlr gentle-
women, well born and well reared.
But they do not agree on Woodrow
the League Of Nations, the tariff, the
bonus and on only few of the other
great questions.
And they are i1svioIent antagonism
on some of the great moral issues.
Still, Mrs. Cambern persists in her
argument that all of the women, in
Guiding those who dislike her and her
class. will finally get together.
Nearly everybody in the'neighbor-
hood is taking a hand in the rearing
of the Ross Sims baby, and Ed Frye
says they are making poor job of it.
Pete Chilson his discontinued his
subscription to Henry Ford's Dearborn
Independent Pete says he read all
that stuff when Lincoln Steffens and
twenty years ago and that he doesn't
care to go into it again. He says that
so far as ability is concerned, the new
crop of muckrakers doesn't begin to
compare with the old.
Ed StucSey has lately returned from
Washington, where he stayed in a
hotel much frequented by women who
were in the National Capital attending
some sort of convention. "Ettie,' he
said to his wife the day he returned,
81 never realized it before, but have
come to believe you are the best
dressed and the best-looking woman
in the world"
Pep" Smart, who is said to be the
best mixer" in our neighborhoOd, has
lost another job.
Herb Showers, who started in
week or two ago to read Thru the
Shadows With o. Henry by AL Jen-
nings, has finished it. at don't pre-
tend to know much about literature
said Mr.. Showers at the weekly meet
ing of the Idly Club the other night,
either Mr.. Henry or himself SO far as
am concerned"
For years Al Acton has been noted
for his hostility to doctors. ''They
don't know anything" he frequently
has been heard to say. Still, when Al
took sick the other day the first thing
he did was send for one.
Jim Sherman says he has heard his
wife's story about the drug clerk in
Rochester Who gave her the wrong
medicine thousand times. Mrs
sherman says she has heard her hus-
bands story concerning his 'run-in''
with old Mortimer Conkley 5000
times. The Shermans have been mar
ried eight years. The probabilities are
that both will live to a ripe old age.
George Raschen's distinction is that
when he was in the west, some years
ago, he worked a while for a man
who owned go sheep. Charlie
distinction is that his father,
IN fo },
7 ork, had the best well in the neigh
borhood. Charlie says travellers who
passed that way frequently remarked
that it was as cold as ice.
1t looked for time as tho Seth
Grant would not be able to take his
wife and children to Atlantic City for
he Easter parade. Mrs. Grant was |
much cut up about it. She said. ex-
septing the spring Minnie was born, |
hey hadn't missed an Easter parade |
n Atlantic City for seven years But
Seth borrowed $25 of "Gib" Morton |
md $40 from Mr.. Clendenning, and
hey made the trip
Very few from our neighborhood at
ended Sir Conan Doyles lecture. Ed |
Peavey expressed the sentiment of our
people when he said he had been read
nature for many years and knew all /
bout heaven he would need to know
n this life.
Asher Wattleigh has decided that
he world owes him a living and will
ry to collect 1t by running a shooting
,allery in connection with a street
arrival which starts out next week.
Pitt Davids says anybody can run
he country, but that genius is required
o make a grocery store show net
'rofit-
George Matthew Adams