The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-24

We are treasured TO learn from ms
authoritative statement that Mr.. Fred
Beauvais did not sell Mrs. Stillman's
letters to the attorneys representing
her husband. We knew no gent
schooled in the code of the great wide
open spaces would so far forget him
self as to sell a lady's letters. In fact.
no gent schooled in that code keeps
a lady's letters.
Unless we misread the motion pic
lures, to do so would be to violate ev-
cry ethic of the frozen north.
We notice, quite incidentally. OF
course, that the advertising depart
mcnt is billing us as humorist. We
suppose we ought to say something
funny. If somebody will supply US
with the angle we1I endeavor to meld
it into a paragraph.
Or We are willing TO reverse the
process. OFT & Hay run a photograph
studio in Towanda- There is the raw
material for a wheeze which would
set the people to laughing their heads
off Let some reader who gets over
big on his own front porch try his
hand at reducing it to laughter.
The news is that Mr.. Hearst will
run for governor of New York. 1t is.
apparently, well authenticated, but we
are disposed to discredit it. We don't
believe Mr.. Hearst would take the
best office within the gift of the peo-
pie.
At any rate. he always has resisted
every effort of the people to force him
into public life.
Mr.. Dempsey is sailing for home. We
have already read his impressions of
Paris. So has everybody else, and it
will not be necessary for the New
York papers to reprint them But We
would like to know what Mr.. Demp-
sey thought of Chateau Thierry.
If that is a tip to the vaudeville
managers they are welcome to it, Tho
champion in a twenty-minute talk on
How the Battlefields Impressed Me-
would sweep the vaudeville circuits
next winter.
The need of a big, vital star for next
seasons vaudeville must be apparent
to every manager. 1t is unlikely that
Babe Ruth can go out and repeat
his triumphs of last season.
In the esteemed Saturday Evening
Post for May IS Nina Wilcox Putnam
than whom there is no Whicher-
tells the world how to put it on. 1t
is valuable secret. one of the
things of which the world stands in
urgent need is a more equitable dis
tribution of adipose tissue. But after
a careful study of the Putnam system,
we prefer our own. Marriage did for
us all Mrs. Putnam claims for her
regimen. And marriage is a great
deal more comfortab BILE and satisfac-
tory than the course of self-denial
which Mrs. Putnam prescribes.
Since the foregoing observation vir-
tually forces us to naive confession, we
shall say that when we took the leap
in the dark in MassiQon, Ohio. on Oc-
tober IT. 1911-we once forgot the
date, and it has since burned in our
memory-we weighed 165 pounds.
The proverbiaI arrow had nothing on
u.s. Now we weigh 1875, and the only
concern We have is the fear that we
shall replace the three inches we take
off every summer with four during the
succeeding winter.
just When Everything Was Calm and
Peaceful
Sir-No doubt J. s. is elated over
having made the line" as the late
lamented b. L. T. would have said.
fault in printing "genetic'' instead Of
generic" which is. / am sure, what
both ]. S. and Darwin meant.
The proofroom is in the clear. It
was "genetic" in the copy. We have
no interest in the matter, but we'll
agree to keep an eye on such sartorial
equipment as they find redundant if
the gentlemen wish to fight it out.
We are not sure the New York man
who refused TO take his wife to the
golf tournaments he attended is the
wise bird ne is cracked up to be. We
have tried both plans. 1t is much
easier to convince by ocular demon
stration than by word of mouth.
And, we observe as we proceed to
be rough and ungallant, there is no
other place in which a woman is less
likely to be in the way.