The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

WT1LS II WITHOUT the standardized
formula" he added.
THE standardized formulai"
Yes, the standardized formula in
vented by the late Bert Taylor, and re-
lgiously followed ever since by the
New York column salad mixers. He
wene on:
THE, type ingredients are,-f1.)
The typographical error; CD The
comic clipping from the country news
paper: 60 The abbreviation of an OBJ
vious term, for instance. 'w.k-' for well
known; 14.) The joke play oa-a name,
for example, Sam Needles runs
tailor shop; (5} Bum verse from a
contributor; (6.l, An alleged transla-
ton from the works of some Latin
poet and then mix in three fat para
graphs about yourself. Any child
could
Whose column are you to do any
way?"
THE House column. not Col. e. MS,
but Jay Els daily skyscraper," I re-
piled.
Now that is different" ruminated
the( author of still another political
novel. You can do no better than
follow his simple formula which is BE
YOURSELF"
Neither LEDGERdemain. nor PRESS
tidisitation can bring forth an idea
when you are empty of them and filled
with Spring. The robins are Singing
in the parks, and the baseball season
is on. Besides Mark Twain said 400
words pes day was quite enough to
write. and write well.
(Note to Managing Editor,-Wed-
nesday. Please put what have writ
ten in type and don't let Mr. House
see it. More to follow tomorrow.
r. G. c.
First Add Second Thought.
For how long(do you have the
column" asked DIR. John William
Cunfiffe, director of the School of
Journalism at Columbia University
"one day only. Thank Heavens!"
answered.
Then if I were you I should en-
deaxors to study the style and methods
of the regular columnist, so as not to
jar the sensibilities of the daily read
ers,'' he said and make the best of it,
Where does your past environment
blend in with his?"
spent 'steep years one rainy Sunday
afternoon last summer at the National
hotel IN Topeka, KAN" replied. I'm
the evening a man who had voted for
Mr.. House for mayor came around
and took me to a private house where
lived rapidly in a poker game until
train time for Oklahoma City"
Perhaps you had best give Mr..
Houses readers some of your own
personal reflections of a human char
acter, something that might interest
the columns done by professional
columnists seem to be largely per-
sonal narratives in a humorous vein,
and when their brains fag they APP
pear to fall back upon what outsiders
send them"
Having no ready-to-use barrel of
contributions, I was commencing to
worry when DR.. Cunliffe casually re-
marked: Queer world this. Only a
few days ago l received a letter from
the aged proprietor of a printing es-
ia blishment in Connecticut who wrote
me that he had been a printers devil
in the establishment of The Bolton
Guardian, a newspaper my own grand
father founded in Lancashire. Eng
land @
Now for the personal reflection"
-England's entire countryside IS
dotted with vine-clad homes that hold
memories of good folks who have emil
grated to America. Not so bad, Ell?
(Mr. overwhelmingly. Kindly
set up foregoing, and hold for Mon
day. More coming. r. G. c.
Second Add Second Thought.
In order to ascertain how to write
lin a humorous vein" called up the
country home Irwin S. Cobb is buying
near Ossining.i The butler or maybe
it was the gardener explained over
most prosperous season. Nothing left
to do but locate the premiere humor-
its alter ego, Bozeman Bulger, who
marched away to war in uniform
that Irv had given him the $500 to
pay for Cloth was high and it re-
| quired lot.
IL have been thinking right hard
for three or four days trying to bring
real cute one out my own solid ivory
for Mr. Lorimer's Sense of Non
sense" declared Boze pulling long
face.
Now you just go ahead in a serious
vein about column-making in Gotham
and it will be quite funny enough" he
advised. Tell how they always lead
off with a misspelled- Then put
something. in italics and label it
is the rule for the Stillman, Stokes
and Elwell cases. Doug and Mary can
| be depended upon for a turn rule.
Don't forget Main street. call the
League of Nations the Leg of Notions
and say something about the Erie radl-
road. Work in spring with few
blue birds eggs or a plate of shad-
roe Then serve with good last
line"
what would be a good line?"
asked.
''Ihat would De d SOOu fldst Illle-
concluded the former major of the
! 18th division.
| Only it cannot be the last ,linep for
Mr. Houses column end seems to be
further off than Betelgnese-
tPriyate for Editor.-Friday; 81 IN !
next take" More. CO
Third Add Second Thought.
| Professor Gump says that to pro-
duce a scintillating column the aspir-
ant should Immediately set about to
| increase the weight of his brain He
recommends a preliminary ten day
| diet on fish,. celery and the cooked
brains of domestic animals, preferably
! calves brains. We have all sorts OF
i SUGGESTIONS for columnsmaking daily
diets-A pound of raw steak divided
4 into three portions; A \baked potato
with glass OF milk for each meal;
Plenty of caieries and dozen or more
I ff<4s1r r.