The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-16
ON SECOND THOUGHT
y By JAY =. HOUSE.
(Fron Philadslphia Public LedEss.l

II ID AT. E1GuQI1A oAl1RSlC1os L.
senator-elect from Minnesota, speak
ingI "I referred to Wall street, too.
Ny idea OF New York, and by tnat
mean the controlling interests there,
is that they sit back and look upon
the rest of the country much as Great
Britain looks upon India. They I'M
agine that when they need a senator
they can come out here and get one
This is not feuda1 state and the peo-
pie are not serfs. Wall street is not
the chosen people"
The Great Alexander's floating car
tilagei Have we got to go thru with
all that again?
The reason we ask is that we've
been thru it so many times. We heard
J. M. Dunsmore and John Barnes say
virtually the same thing in 1884 we
heard it repeated in the campaigns OF
1890, 1892, 1894. 1896, 1898 and 1SOO.
We trust Doctor Shipstead will not
take 1t as a personal reflection II we
seek seclusion behind the nearest bill
board in order that we may laugh our
head off. He probably can't help 1t;
"a surprising number of people are
born that way.
Another profound secret has just
been revealed. The New York papers
say the vets are planning to kill the
"dry" law. We knew there was some
thing going on, but we had no idea an
assault on the Volstead act was con-
templated.
Euuipping Stella for Matrimony.
Sir-Stella is going to marry soon,
so the girls gave her a shower. She
received a flock of guest towels.
host of centerpieces. the usual lot OF
unmentionables and three revolvers-
S. I. G.
Now that the business of saving the
country rs completed, the column re-
cf,,, 20 0naforoaIofnn Of the Now
Brunswick tragedy. AS everybody
knows, we presented a solution of the
crime within a week after 1t was
committed. We should have presented
the solution much earlier had we be-
gun our reading of the case inlmedi-
ately subsequent to the tragedy; but,
somehow, we never can get interested
in a murder case until 1t is three or
four days old. By that time Adelaide
is reading it and, rather than appear
ignorant in her sight, we equip and
fortify ourself with knowledge of its
details.
But what we set out to say is the
thing that intrigues us-the thing
that has always intrigued us in the
connections Mrs. Halls contention
that she did not suspect her husband.
1T may be true that Mrs. Hall didn't
suspect her husband. Anything may
happen once. There may be, once or
twice in a generation, a woman who
doesn't suspect her husband. But the
idea that a woman can live in a town
the size of New Brunswick without
being duly advised concerning her
husband is a most fantastic one.
In the first place, while the slick
attempts to solve small-town mys-
teries, the people always know. And,
in the second place, in every small
town there are dozens of persons who
lie awake all night in order that they
may get up early and carry to the in
jured wife the details of her husbands
faithlessness.
politics has no place in the courts"
the recently elected lady Justice of the
Ohio supreme court is quoted as say
ing. The women promised faithfully
that their participation would invest
politics with a new meaning and a new
phraseology. What we should like to
known is when the investiture is to be-
gin. That's preci.rIy what a man
would have said. OF a fact. we have
heard men say it times without num-
ber
As one whose fondest belief is that
life should and does break fifty fifty,
we would not take from Mr.. Wilson
the gloating which is his. It is his
moment. He may meyer have another.
Let no man fntrude upon the saving
of his soul.
And, we go on to say, when it comes
to gloatings Mr.. Wilson give as fine
an exhibition as any man we know.
Every once in a while something
happens to cheer US out of all proper |
ton to it's personal significance. Mary |
Garden is quoted as saying that the |
sort of husband. she wants is old and |
has lots of sense, but that, unfortu- |
nately, all such men are married.
Miss Garden is reported as having |
passed lightly and gracefully over |
Harold Mccormick and his bride, |
Gamma Wa1ski. If she did. it was one |
of the artistic triumphs of her career. |
There is no more outstanding per- |