The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-24
ON SECOND THOUGHT
- BY JAY Z. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgsR.l
Life.

Life. -
From an apartment window the
adolescent day looks gray and unin-
viting.
1t always does.
One struggles into consciousness
with the thought that he has been cold
all night.
There are blankets in an adjacent
closet but the effort to Secure them
more than counterbalances the dis
comfort endured.
Somebody says: Aren't you ever
going to get up? It's very late
The question as to whether today's
days is discussed. fhe judges decide
in favor of the negative.
Bacon and eggs.
The papers and the morning mail
two invitations to contribute to worthy
causes, the prospectus of an oil COM
pany. the advertisement of cleaner
and dyer
The telephone rings and somebody
asks if Grace is there. Wrong num-
ber.
Try to remember to tell the garage
to fix the right-hand front light.
Something lose in the socket; moth
ing important, but very annoying.
Try to remember to take winter
! Forget it.
Reminded to go to bank and get
| silver. Company next week.
| Reminded to write to United States
| Steel company advising that dividend
! check for $3.50 has been lost.
Woman scrubbing front hall. Won
| der what she thinks about.
Man on elevated occupying seat for
which he has paid and all adjoining
| territory. Moves when requested, but
scowls heavily.
| Discover that he is reading an in
| PI a m m oafOry-IOOIiuO a nIIhTicatiOD nrint-
| ed in a foreign language.
| Man across the car reading ION
/ Second Thought" Quits about half
/ way down the column and turns to
] the financial page.
| Advertisement of collar set off by
blight blue, polka dotted bow tie. Col
lar is too fow and tie Incredibly ugly
Four sea captains getting shaved ir
| three-chair barber shop. The laugh
ter is uproarious,> but the Joke is unin-
! telligible.
Figure that if the customer who is
next" doesn't ask for a hair cut and
massage will be able to get to the Of
flee by IL o'clock
Girl wearing light gray silk stock
ings, whose skirts reach barely to hel
but looks older.
/ Narrowly escape being run over b3
a Ford.
Yes, it was a coincidence.
| SlC staring out OF WlnQOW ana eQl
torial colleagues wonder what i!
wrong. Yesterday" they say, ''yoI
were so gay"
Mail is either complimentary or un
interesting. Not an abusive letter il
the morning delivery.
Editor of the Wichita Eagle blow
in and introduces himself. Says h
writes an average of 1000 words o
editorial matter every day in the year
Sundays and holidays included. Whei
he takes vacation, as in the presen
instance, he carries his typewrite
along and never misses an issue.
Interesting sort of career, but to'
strenuous for the money.
N Pastor of Germantown churcl
fcomes in with invitation to max
speech to- his mems club. Put him of
with promise to come later.
Not one man in ten thousand cal
resist an invitation to-Tnake speech.
Dean of editorial corps passes thrl
room and says it's time to go to lunch
Join an automobile club.
Get silver out of bank.
. DAISY Bell'' calls up and we max
a date for Friday night The lad
hath a most alluring voice.
Stock salesman who wants to TAX
liberty bond and convert it into some
thing better devotes time to the en-
, terprise out of all proportion to it
| importance.
What finally became of the youn
: man who, after his graduation fror
: college last spring, decided not to be
come a stocks and bonds salesman
, Friend from out of town, telephone
, that he is going to run in for littl
, while. Story of his automobile acci
: dent the high light the day. He ha
: nine ribs broken and was disfigure
> in a thousand places.
Had no idea there were nine ribs.
> Reporter wants to know what angl
he shall play on the Roster stor!
o Says he doesn't want to mess aroun
/ in it,,
= Suggest to him that what the pub
: lie wants to know is what really hap
y pened and what is going on about 4
: Find out that everybody around tn
D office has stopped reading the ea
tKaiser's "reminiscences.
4 Try to remember to call up broke
> about insurance policy
} Forget it.
E Somebody rings up the office an