The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-29

else, stirs in us the gay and facetious
I mood But one shaft from the CULVER
frol-- somewhere out west, says: II
didn't know you were ill, but I knew
there was something wrong. The
! column has been so badly off OF
course, one can't be good all the time,
! but never knew you to descend so
! far into the doldrums or remain there
so long"
be done about it, but We do know
Adelaide is right, as she nearly al
ways is.
should not so long have been in the
dark concerning the ultimate outcome
| Of Merton of the Movies" which now
| is assuming the aspect of a broad,
welI-marked trail leading from the
great wide-open spaces to a comfort
| able seventeen-room cottage in Holly
! wood. When it comes to divining the
intent of an author and gathering the
| threads of his narrative into the warp
and wool of a completed fabric, that
woman has a gift which amounts al
most to prescience-
''Fordney, Mondeu Longworth and
| others of the bonus band" we quote
from the New York Herald, "have con-
troll of the house, of the speaker of
the house, and are viciously jamming
! thru their bonus bill in true Jesse
James fashion. When Jesse James
had a piece of work to do he sus-
pended the rules of civilization and
cleaned up the job as the Fordneys.
Mondells and Longworths are cleaning
up the job today"
The esteemed Herald is severe in its
arraignment. Ours is the neutral lay.
and we do not wish to be placed in the
attitude of approving or condemning;
we merely quote. But II the Herald
were printed in Clay county, Mo. or
circulated in that territory, it would
not dare thus to cast odium on the
memory of Jesse James. The people
of the community in which Jesse lived
so long and so transiently and in
definitely still honor the man and the
mighty deeds he wrought.
It IS, we shall add, one thing to
abuse the lower house of congress and
quite another to go into a community
of hard-bitten, straight-shoot Mis-
sourians and decry a popular hero.
We are in position to sympathize
with Mr.. J. A. H. Hopkins, executive
chairman Committee of Forty-eight
whatever that is. Mr.. Hopkins com
plains that the president has not yet
answered a letter written to him on
March Is. We wrote the president
more than four weeks ago and haven't
heard word from him.
Not only that. our letter was inn
portant- Mr.. Hopkins communica-
was merely little advertising for Mr..
Hopkins. Ours concerned the game of
golf which the president last year sug-
gested and sought to induce him to fix
date for it.
And the whole thing was imper-
sonaL We couldn't get any advertis-
ing-at last none we should value
ont Of a ga .af calf Ju-ifh the
dent, or anybody else.
We trust the lady wearing a black |
gown, a black hat and a. trimmed |
coat who sat at an adjacent table as
We ate a lonely meal in a city res
taurant Wednesday evening will not |
ton for her. She is a diplomat with |
a genius for the marital relation. 1t |
was q gay but highly respectable party |
of five persons-two men and three |
where for the evening, but the lady in |
black didn't care to go. Home beck |
oned to her And so she said, You |
run along, Charles, and have good |
time. don't want to go, but won't |
spoil your evening by keeping you
away"
Naturally enough. we didn't see the |
denouement- But we'd be willing to |
speculate, at our favorite odds, that |
Charles trundled along home with |
his wife. After that remuneration wild |
horses could not have dragged him
to a scene of gayety. When a woman
loses a man it is, nine times out of
ten. for the reason that she clutches
for him.
New York is much wrought up over
MacMonnies' statue of Civic Virtue,
which represents a rude, husky gent
his pathway. We do not get the re-
action which New York has toward
the statue. It is not, to our mind, an
insult to the ladies. The thing we
about it to object at all. is that the
statue does not typify the spirit OF
New York.
II we were modelling a statue de-
signed for erection anywhere in New
York, we should either depict q visitor
from the middle west lying prone with
his trouser pockets turned inside out
an arriving guest that the room which
he had reserved would not be avail
able until o'clock in the evening.
The impending Mccormick Oser
faded from the news before
we contrived to put the question which
really agitated us. We shall do so
now. 1t is as to whether NJ. Oser's
people can overlook the fact that Miss
great grandfather once
made reapers and mowers with his
own hands.
We have referred to the confessions
of Eddie Guest in the current Ameri-
can. We do so again for the purpose
of noting that Mr.. Guest. unlike most
of the great men featured in the j
does not attribute his sue
cess to his mother. He divides it
about equally between his wife and
the installment house from which he ,
bought his furniture.
!
One great story in the PERSONAL
achievement series remains to be writ
ten. 1t - that of the typical American
who won his position and fortune by