The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-13
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY E. HOUSE
(Erom Philadelphia Public LedserJ
The Whispering Post.

The Whispering Post.
A. L. B--If the editor ever prints
the picture you suggest, we snail pc
ruined. We'd as soon see our goh
score in print as our picture IN the
paper
c. Q. D.-Two thoughts impress us
in connection with your three pages
of typewriter manuscript One Isl
that you take the column too hard.
Anybody who goes TO the trouble to
write three-page letter eondemning
II. IL taking 1t too hard. The other is
ing kidded- The fat-heads furnish us
infinite amusement. But we do not
play to them and we have no time to
parley with them.
s. r, Bit is long years since we
contributed to "mulligan.'' We re-
call only the principal ingredients. but
everything brought in by the gents
whose turn il was to "batterf' the back
doors of the residential districts, went
into It. A good many of the denizens
of the shop district read the column
in those dear dead days beyond recall,
but few Of them knew what it was all
about.
People continue to ask us how we
liked the fight. We didn't like it. but
| missed It. Already we have been
pointed out In barber shops and hotel
| Hobbies and dining rooms as one who
| saw IT. Only the day before yesterday
we heard a head waiter and one of
his underlings caressing the distinc-
ton which is ours in soft and num-
| bled undeFtones. AS time goes on our
hurried trip to Jersey City will permit
US to nlonopoiize many a conversation
in which we otherwise should be an
uncounted bystander.
| The great competitive event nearly
always subjects those who view 1t TO
annoyance to tiresome prattle and to
| physical discomfort. But, man, the
chance it gives a ehappie to talk about
/ it afterwardi
Another Medal Score.
Sir-''W. Els" letter in your coll
umn anent Mr.. knight and Mr.. Noon
reminds me that two weeks ago last
| Saturday Mr.. knight and Mr.. Day
were playing a twosOme ,on the Ply
mouth Country clubs golf course.
Which Of the light and dark combina-
ton won l DO not know, but. If need
be. they could have. played extra holes,
as Mr.. Moon was in a foursome just
ahead. n. L. NJ.
| We had hoped to conceal our entry
in the event until the play was almost
complete. but the pace grows too hot.
Wen uncover her now. She is Mrs.
Day Knight, who used to travel up
and down the trans-Missouri country
spreading propaganda and selling tick
cts for lecture course.
The wet parade seems to have
been not quite up to expectations,
numerically speaking. Few of the ris-
ings of the populace are. But what
a grand time those who participated
must have had talking about the
lWOrkin ry5aan ans the haaV. - xv1afrh ha
has been deprived!
Miss Frances Perkins is distressed
at the widespread circulation of the
story that she defended bigamy in a
recent speech in Milwaukee and has
asked the newspapers to correct it. We
1 think Miss Perkins is making a mis-
take. One must advocate bigamy or
something equally daring to attract at
tehtion nowadays.
i II we were in a position to advise
Miss Perkins. we'd say let the story
ride. We once added several hundred
paying clients to the subscription list
of a Missouri Valley newspaper by
boldly advocating white slavery.
All the News From Pittsburgh.
Sir-With infinite regrets and the
fareweliS of my friends sounding in
my ears, left Broad Street station
Sunday evening last and transferred
my lares and penates to Pittsburgh.
AS a result, missed all numbers of
the Public Ledger up to Friday. but
today 1 bethought myself and perused
me q copy. paying a premium there
for of $50 per cent. My complaint.
however. is not of that, but what did
you bet G. B. E. a hat on? 1 missed
it and had I remained home 1 might
have got in on it.
Pittsburgh is a nice crowded town
with double trolley tracks on narrow
streets and left-hand turns permitted
The inefficiency and sardine-can con-
dition of the cars has caused me many
la homesick pang. There is nothing
here to compare with Chestnut streets
vista of comedy and skirt-abrio2ec
panorama: but the newspaper ac-
counts of our Philadelphia baseball
games are mercifuly short. Nobody
writes letters to the newspapers The
Il Gazette-Times calls WaltMason-nnToG
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