The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-15
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY z. HOUSE
lFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.D

We were so deeply interested in the
career OF Robert Savage, rich Yale
ath-a-lete. that we violated Rule No.
% and turned over to page Is to find
out what he had done. Rule No. %
| provides that the doings of q Yale ath-
a-lete in New York shall not be 1ol-
lowed beyond the front page on which
| it first appears Well, we pursued this
bird to page IS and discovered he was
an ineligible member of the freshman
| football team last fall.
| In the event that you Fave not been
/ pect: The ath-a-letic young Mr.. Saw
age has just married chorus girl.
watching the convolutions of 1.-THE
Gold Diggers" the other night we fell
into reflective apd ruminative mood.
We wondered why the young fellows
nowadays bother with the chorus. The
girls of their own sets are so much
more attractive, so much better
dressed, so much cleverer and meal
I culahIy more sophisticated and indis-
Greet. AS we have said. we fell into
reflective and runinative mood. We
failed to arrive at any conclusion, but
when we emerged from the mood the
show was over, and that is something.
It is our own notion that the allure
of the chorus has always been over
written. We were about the theater
| a good many years; most of the time
we had the run of the shop" We
she was so painfully shy that con-
/ versation with a strange gent was en-
barrassing to her
1t is not enough to fight for the
country in time of war Somebody
has got to be for it all the time.
Alice Paul complains of thirty
seven laws that are unfair to women.
We don't know just how maAhy laws
there are. What We do know is that
all of tho balance of them are de-
i man who, having gone to the trouble
| to earn a dollar, has thought it worth
while to save it.
At any rate. Mathilde Mccormick
has secured the consent of one grand
father to her contemplated wedding
We refer, of course, to her fiance, M.
Oser.
That one emerged from the molds
bearing a number of flaws. 1t is
| predicated on an unsound wimple, and
| its wallop lacks impetus. But you'll
have to admit the idea behind it was
clever.
We don't know whether there is
anything in the story that Mr.. Wilson
is in contact with Senator Borah If
| it's true, it's a considerable feat. Con-
tact with Senator Borah is more than
that which is ostensibly his own party
| has ever been able to establish.
ostensibly. the Democrats are plan
ming to rebuke the Republicans for
their folly, but all they really hope
to do is to beat Senator Lodge for re-
election.
It is. we pause to observe, the New
York assembly. and not the legisla-
ture of Oklahoma, that is considering
bill forbidding an unmarried girl
under II to attend a dance unless &C
eompanied by at least one parent.
land besides" Miss Annie Fitziu is
quoted as saying in explaining the
breaking of her engagement: IT want
monte independence. 1 have that in
dependence and want to continue in
it, All right, let Miss Fitziu go
ahead with her economic indepen-
denee and see if the men care.
It is possible that all of the other
members of Miss Fitziu's sex will be-
come inbued with her idea. IF they
do, maybe the men will be able to
save a little money.
It is not alone that the advocates
of the proposed blue laws wish TO
curtail our liberties and our diver
sions. They are also primarily re-
sponsible for the formation of an
anti-blue law league.
Chauncey Depew admits he never
fished, played golf or saw a game of
baseball. We do not know Mr. De-
pew, but perhaps there are those
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