The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-07
ON SECOND THOUGHT

| 1t were high time we wrote q little
sporting intelligence. Here of late We
have been SO busy with literature AMI
politics and sociology and psychology
and economics that we have given lit
tie thought to ath-a-letics. With
apologies to the sporting department,
we shall, for the moment, revert to
type.
Life, as we have hitherto observed,
breaks about fifty-fifty. We've had
hard summer, but we don't have to
so to the worlds series.
| Age commands our respect, the G.
A. r. button our reverent admiration.
But we permit the father of no presI-
dent to Guido us in the matter or
frankness. perspicacity and discern
iment. This column also bolts Brook
hart of Iowa.
In which Petronius kids the World
! Sir-Wasn't this George R. Sims
the old dear who. several decades
ing "'Ostler joe" a rather redolent
composition subsequently featured at
drawing-room recitals to the -Four
Hundred by a Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter. who had daughter. Fiji. who
married a Mr.. Stillman? One who
turns to the column for daily refresh
ment here inplores you to decline any
suggestion to follow in Georges foot
steps. And did you note on the front
page that the Rainy Daisies are at 1t
again? With the Ku Klux doing bust
ness at the old stand, it looks like
things were beginning to pick up. VIII
the Rosicrucians please write?
PETRoNIUs.
| This. we finally have concluded. is
no place to come for information. The
pace has grown too fast for us. We
always get "'ostier Joe" and The
Face on the Barroom Floor mex
tricably confused in mind. And we
until they came in and told US ne had
passed on.
! Mr.. Hearst returns from his sixth
| consecutive forced and painful journey
} into the street below to place a coat
t ing of enamel on the toe of the shoe
? that propelled him. 1t doesn't take
much of an analyst to solve this par
tisan of the people. Mr.. Hearst is go
: ing to try it again.
mot long ago." confides a friend OF
| the column, st subscribed for the year
to the weekly edition of the Manches.
ter Guardian to see what 1t was all
about" What we should like to know
is whether he found out. That seems
to us to be the crux of the experiment
Recurring briefly to Mr. Hearst we
express the hope that we may some
time meet him and exchange expert.
| ences. We never were kicked dowr
| the front stairs, but once, in a dari
A house, we plunged head first down this
: back stairs, turning over twice in tn,
:, descent and landing on neck ant
3 shoulders at the bottom.
: We've stayed away from back stair
y ever since, but Mr.. Hearst is NOR
= reckless, and we are curious to know
J whether he is trying to learn tricl
in acrobatics.
g Yale and Harvard won their initia
n games, and the question as to which
D is the champion football team still 4
in doubt. and will continue to be unit
We trust that. meanwhile, neithe
university will succumb to the temp
tations to meet other teams. Tha
: would be surplusags.
Fl As we suggested a year ago. wha
Yale and Harvard ought to do is I
l. engage in a couple OF light practic
re games and then get together at tn
L flag end of the season and settle tn
u championship. This bruising schedul
l. team plays. is uncalied for in the cir
z cumstance.
ss We seem to have been differer
- IrOIu IlOSl Dogs. we never were hOrr
e when school began. School took U
IS out of the various practices and dc
is vices of husbandry and kept us out fc
N four long months.
he And while we have to disfigure tn
., best friend a cartoonist ever had, W
n doubt that boys really dread the oper
n, ing of the school year.
Mr.. Poet, a very shy young mai
he was introduced to a fascinating youn
lie woman who, misunderstanding h
name. addressed him constantly 8
"a Mr.. Peters, much to his distress.
a. Finally summoning up courage h
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