The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-03
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY =. HOUSE
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\ A Letter to Mr.. Coolidge.
HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE,
Northampton, Mass.

A Letter to Mr.. Coolidge.
HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE.
Northampton. Mass.
Friend Cal:
expect you seen the letter written
to Warren Harding because everybody
has been talking about it and got
letter from the editor Of the Marion
Star saying it was good sense and he
would send it to Warren. but ! don't
know II he did or not because have
not heard from Warren and it may be
he is waiting until he decides where
he can use me. Well, I got to think
ing 1 should ought not play any favor
Tres because ! am a Republican. THAI
Is 7 am a Republican unless the fell
lews who writes to the New York
Tribune are Republicans and IL they
are Republicans 1 am not. Anyhow l
am a Republican till 1 find out what
they are. and I don't want to give
Warren Harding any tire best of it.
feel If one Republican Is entitled to my
advice they all are. and SO I am writ
ing to you. don't know you intimate
ly. like i know Warren Harding, be-
cause 1 have seen him and have never
saw you. But / stood in front OF the
door of your room in the Congress
hotel little while one evening nsl
summer and 1t may be you seen me. l
was the fellow in the gray suit and the
red tie and the Wilted collar and you
know practically ruined that tie thar
day. 1 have never wore 1T but once
or twice since You know what 1t
means for fellow to ruin his neckte
and don't need to tell you. Wen. an
I know about you. you might say, Is
what I seen in the moving pictures
last summer and what the papers say
and if they are~true you need my al
vice and If they are not true they are
mo harnd~done.
Well, II I was you the first thing l
would do would be to buy me new
pair of pants and il possible before
you go to Washington. / was going TO
say buy a necktie. too. but Bert Tay-
lor says yoa have got necktie, and
there is not no use of being eNtrava-
giant. The way say is be neat and
tasty but do not throw away your
money. You should ought to have
dinner suit, too, because you Will be
invited out a good deal and while the
men don't care the hostess feels bet
ter. 1t need not be no great expense
because If you buy a pair of blac<
pants you can use them and ALI you
will have to buy extra will be coat
and vest. I have been to Washington
and the people dresses up good deal
When the men are invited to parties
they not only change their collars, but
some of them goes much further than
that. ] will try and meet YOU at the
station when you cesne in, but if I am
not there you give your suitcase to a
porter and let him find you a taxicab.
Don't try to ride up to the, hotel on a
street car. If you are going to live in
Washington you have got to make up
your mind to spend some money. They
are not no need OF tipping the porter
who carries your suitcase, but he will
be. expecting something and you will
have to use your own judgment. The
lf0f will II.
you and when he opens the window
and puts the key in the door for You
and asks are they anything else he can
do that means you are to slip him p
little change. tho sometimes just look
out the window and let him glare
hisseif to death. And YOU should
ought not forget to tip the waiter, be-
cause If you do not him and the other
walters will talk about you. Ten PEI
cent is about right. because If you ZIP
him much more he seSll think you a
''hick-" / figure about half the money
spent In this country is throwed away
to keep walters and BARRIERS from
thinking people is hicks and You
ought to hear them talk when your
back are turned. But do not go 20
extremes. If the checl, is 10 cents do
not tip the waiter cents; tip him 10
cents. But l will be at the station if
1 can get there and you don't need to
cross no bridges until the house burns
down, as the saying goes.
Another thing I would do if I was
you would be to find out where they
are q good savings bank and go right
down and start a savings fund. You
have never saw such extravaganza as
you VIII see in Washington. You'll see
men pay a dollar for a meal and meyer
bat their eyes; you'll see people get
on street cars TO ride four blocks; you
will see men throw away cigars that