The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger)

| Aston and the column, but particular
/ ~ to Lady Aston, that the newspapers
would refrain from saying, The audi
i ence burst into outlaws or nearly
| laughter at Lady Astor's sallies OF Wit
and hunor" The practice is likely TO
| do Virginia's famous daughter 1ncal-
culable harm. The print of her I'M
pressions of life indicates that Lady
| Aston is a sane, clever woman of much
personal charm But she isn't funny;
at her best she Is only mildly amusing
/ She might, from sophisticated audi
ence, induce a series of polite filters.
She couldn't inculcate guffaW IN
thousand years.
It is a serious thing to attach to a
| man the odium of being a humorist-
To a woman it is an almost prohibi-
tive handicap.
Mr. Mooney. who was sent to prison
to serve a life term a time ago, has
again been acquitted of the charge
! against him, this time by the New
| York World. Mr.. Mooney has had an
unusual experience. He was convict
ed by a San Francisco jury and has
been three times acquitted, twice by
the New York Tribune and once by
the World
In contemporary jurisprudence Mr.
the case of Caleb Powers. Mr.. Pow
ers was once convicted by a Kentucky
jury and twice acquitted by McCIure's
Magazine.
From One Not Easily Amused.
! Sir-Please let me know when you
are going to see Mr.. Sothern play
Shakespeare, and your seat number,
so that I may laugh my head off at
the spectacle of a cIownisn columnist
trying to look intelligent. Don't fail
me in this. as 1 haven't had a good
laugh since L heard you were once
mayor of Topeka d. L. W.
The column strives to cater to the
whims of it's admirers If D. L. w
will procure a ticket to this evening s
performance doubtless he will be per-
mitted to observe the phenomena for
which he homes!
D. L. VS. incapacity for laughter
the paucity of his cachinnatory re-
sources-intrigues According to his
own confession, he has had but one
good laugh in three years. Some of
the funniest things in world history
have happened within that period A
! man who reads the column, and, APP
parently, D. L. w. does read it. should
| be able every day to wiring a laugh
, from the lucubrations of those who
''bawl it out" We do.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of General Grant prompted
many editorial tributes to his memory.
We read such of those as came within
our purvieW with satisfaction-some
of them with delight. But our pleas
ure in such encomiums did not OBJ
scure the fact that General Grant.
during the greater portion of his ac-
tivesservice to this country. was abused
like pickpocket by many thousands
of it's people.
That, we shall add. is the price of
amounting to something, and most of
> 81 ,,oI7
sessment, is levied would be perfectly
willing to pay one.
The gentleman who dreamed the
Mick Carter stories is dead by his
own hand. He wrote more than one
thousand volumes thru which his gall
liant and virtuous hero stalked tri-
umphant. And now that some of the
stories come back to mind, we wonder
what those who then objected to them
would think of Waldo Frank.
We trust the Missouri university
coed who is beating her way to New
York by fast freight will like the big
town, but she is going to miss the
scholarly and mentally invigorating
atmosphere of Columbia, Mo, for a
long time to come.
! We could have written that para
graph in thirty or forty different ways,
but in no other way could we have
expressed SO forcibly the relativ So
cial values of New DIRK and Columbia.
Il have never before SEEN" Mrs.
George Sevey, of Chicago, is quoted
as saying, such enthusiasm as the
women manifested in the Wilson
principles and ideals. The women of
this country are fighting along for
the principles Mr. Wilson represents
Mrs. Sevey stsrs our curiosity.
What. exactly, are the principles that
Mr.. Wilson represents?
We put the question with A pur-
pose, and it is not that of decrying
Mr.. WilsoR or his principles. But we
don't believe the women, as a whole,
lare enthusiastic for them or that they