The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

OIl the SUBJECT OF the clrcunlO1CutAT
pill are a stencil in the nostrils of
millions writes a Western reader.
He doesn't say why our observations
on the subject constitute a stencil or
who the millions are. and we shall be
icompelled to ask him.
As everybody knows. the speculative
| intrigues us. We are disposed TO
make the matter sporting PROPOSE
ton. Wed be willing to hypothecate
the Blue Swallow at our favorite odds
that he doesn't know a dozen persons
Ito whom such vaporings and lucubra-
tions are stencil. We'd hypothecate
the electric sweeper on the PROPOSE
ton that he can't name six persons.
|
When a man says millions oppose a
thing. that means he opposes it.
When the secretary of the treas
ury." says the New York Would in
ployes of the bureau of printing and
engraving, as an afterthought, says
it was purely an efficiency move, he
makes an incredible statement 1t
will not be accepted, and he cannot
expect that it will be accepted"
Well, who cares whether it is &C
cepted or not and what difference
does it make? The World can't do
anything about it.
| As we have hitherto pointed out. it
is the disposition to enlarge incense
Quential matters out of all proportion
to their significance that has made
| this country wild.
We characterize the gift of three
| fountain pens to Princess Mary and
| her husband as surp1usage. There's
| always som ebody around who wants
to loan his fountain-pen, and who in
sists on doing SO.
It is with deep and abiding regret
| that we announce our inability to print
| the concluding installment of THE
! Curse of Tobacco" by Harold Goss.
We mislaid the final chapter and a
thoro search of the premises has
failed to reveal it.
! One comforting thought cuddIes in
mind as we scrape the bottom of the
tobacco jar: nothing is ever perma-
nently lost and it may turn up later.
| The case of Governor Small, of Hi
J nois, who challenged a jury because
| there were no women on it, revives a
waning curiosity in the case. 1t was
assumed that Governor Small was in
| nocent of the charge against him and
| had nothing to fear from the courts
But the latest. development in the
matter gives to it puzzling aspect.
Can it be possible Governor Small
wants a hung" jury?
| Among the wedding gifts to Princess
Mary and her husband were a con-
sidera ble-number of good books. But
4 the fact that there is no copy Of
| Lucille" in the list amazes US. Have
the friends of Princess Mary and her
| husband so soon forgotten whose great
| granddaughter she is?
Well, the circus season is on again,
and it will soon be time to reprint
/ ofo Of hoy inc hr0 y,
got their start.
Possibly the story of the manner in
which the Ringlings got their drag
with this column never has been print
| ed. We were a country editor with an
advertising bill to collect. Encum-
bered with the electrotype we sought
Charles Ringing. then press agent of
the show. Mr.. Ringing paid the bill
without question and expressed a de-
sire to set up" the cigars The town
was full of five-cent cigars, and is
yet, for that matter, but Mr.. Ringing
waved them aside with a gesture of
contempt. He said a. ten-cent cigar
was none too good for a man who ad-
vertised his show. And he finally ran
a ten-cent brand to earth in a drug
store far up the street, after canvass
ing all of the intervening emporiums.
Long since we have come to suspect
there was more to the incident than
we were able to comprehend at the
moment.
We keep only casual track of the
opera. Was that, we desire to ask,
Miss Farrar's first farewell appear
ance in Philadelphia or one of the sub
sequent onesP :
The curtain has fallen on the Haps-
burgs and the consensus is that they
gave a poor show.
OF course, the downtrodden coal
miners are out of luck, but they would
have been in any event.