The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23
GIRLS LINE BROMS
n. S. A. Says They Get idea From
Lazy Actresses.

Dear AJC.
You know Art, Ia hate to talk
about people and make snide remarks
but then 1 do get so peevish once in
while. And then I don't want to
appear as If 1 were butting into some
body's business, but have you noticed
these gals running loose around this
town with those plucked eyebrows,
you know Art, they pluck 'em out.
till just thin hair line goes over the
eye. 1 hate to mess into things. but
that fool idea started about five years
ago with a lot of lazy chorus girls,
these girls figured it was easier to
pluck their eyebrows than to block
them out then cover them with a
makeup, you know Art, these chorus
girls do like to hurry out of the thea
ter after the show. 1 don't know why
But then after the other girls saw it.
in the different towns they thought it
was some new idea and they immedi-
ately adopted the idea, paying out
good money to some beauty specialist
to have 1t done. Now the point that
arises, wait till they want them to grow
back again, the dern things are going
to spread out all over the forehead, a
lot OF these girls are going to look
like gorilla, altho that will be rather
hard on the gorilla. And then il a lot
OF these wise boys that wear these
funny little moustaches could see
themselves as lot OF ks see them,
the BARRIERS would do a good business.
Whoever started that fool idea should
have been shot long before the sun
went down. They must have got the
idea from Charley Chaplin, only he
did 1t to make himself look funny, and
these poor birds here in town do it
thinking 1t makes them look serious,
but the effects are the same as Chap
Inns. Anyway, Chaplin got a million
| dollars for his, the other guys haven't
got a chance in the world. And say,
Art, you know, the other afternoon |
dropped back in the news room and
there was one ofsyour reporters (name
on application) smoking a cigar Il
guess somebody gave it to him). and
he was wondering how the paper
| could ever get along without him. He
was dreaming and there seemed to be
some weighty problem on his mind.
The problem seemed unsolved, he
PICKED up the Postscript" and Pc
rused the first page. At length he
noticed story that stated that the
ladies OF the W. c. T. L. having placed
| John B. in his beer, were out to get
Lady Nicotine. 1t seemed to him al
most incredible. Something ought TO
be done. Finally. summoning all his
reserve cerebral force, he sat down
at the battered typewriter and wrote
something, after he wrote it the re-
porter (name on application swooned
away. I rushed to the machine and
yanked this verse from out the tan
gled mass of type and mud and dust.
| Here IL be:
Aye. tear the wooden Indians down.
and throw them in Gage lake; the
| humi and the cuspi-dores, unto the
garbage take. Destroy the twinkling
signs that speak OF vicious weeds for
sale. and lynch the birds who've
helped to fix this habit on the male
All. Winsome Lady Nicotine. you've
been an awful vamp, in captivat ting
human hearts you're the undisputed
champ. But now the women folks
opine, they'll soon attend your wake
aye, tear the wooden Indians down
and throw 'em in Gage lake
And then when I revived him with
a glass of that COLD water out of the
thermo bottle by the door. he gath
cred himself together and hiked GU,
into the twilight to think it over
] Really you couldn't blame him. He
had had a hard day. And. o, I nearly
forgot to tell you. that wearing a mus
tache Is like union suit. they never
fit the face. And guess that will be
about ALL N. S. A.