The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY y. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsf.D

play writing" confideS u. Y. d., was
mighty good reading, butt don't
mean nothing Having been a re-
porter myself. I realize no newspaper
man takes on more work than he has
to, and therefore I did not expect you
to write a musical comedy for the
Balbazoo Club of the Y NJ. H. A. I
did hope I might get a little free ad-
vertising for the show but it seems
you columnists are much more hard
hearted than the average city editor.
Possibly it's the Middle West environ
ment.
"I don't want you to think, however,
that you were asked to write a play
for the average show. Ba1bazoo is
different, of course. Lee Pape-surely
you know him-received his first ex-
perience in writing play for Bal
bazoo. Willard Goldsmith wrote his
first play for Balbazoo. Ed Wynn and
Larry Semon both first trod the
boards in front of footlights at a
Balbazoo show.
"I thought you might like to add
your name to the illustrious ones men
toned. OF course, there are others,
but none quite SO prominent. Maybe
this will wiring a tear from your eye
and cause you to loosen up to the ex-
tent of a paragraph or two about the
Balbazoo Club, which is now in its
twentieth year
AS we und darstand- 1T, then, the Bal
bazoo Club doesn't care anything
about the grand idea we have for
burlesquing the typical Wild West
comedy. Very well, we'n sell it to-
some New York producer
The burlesque we have in mind, we
shall aud, is the only thing in the
world that is funnier than the Wild
Westerner of the stage and screen.
Responding to a Curtain Call.
Sir-Joining the interesting throng
who daily obtain enjoyment from your
contributions, I wish to enter the fray
by offering correction to the COM
ment upon the idioms of the Pennsyl-
Van1a Dutch. In a recent quotation
your contributor has both location and
saying incorrect. 1t is next to impossi-
Bile to hear any Pennsylvania Dutch
from the lips of the inhabitants of
Schuylkin county, where the Celtic
twang holds sway. But bending
Southwark and eastward into counties
OF greater scope we find the ideal en-
vironment for our references. Permit
this correction to the red house"
story, known to be the authentic utter
dnce' Amt Nom, Wnen the little req
house makes by, the train is~aIl"
A woman shopping in a store in a
city of the idiom belt was asked by
the proprietor concerning the condi-
ton of a sick person in her home,
and if the invalid were improved in
health. The woman replied: We'll.
for as goot as she iss, for as bad
as she vass, you can't egspecht she iss.' %
Sir-Wle have a car running between
of lof1 nd ,ir.1,
makes, a limited number of stops;
there are other cars which make all
stops.
The writer overheard the following
question asked by a very pleasant old
lady with a broad accent of Pennsyl-
ofer?" PAX.
Sr-Several summers ago the writ
er, with three companions, was en-
route, via motor, to a point in Lancas-
ter county where the fishing was re-
ported to be very fine. Losing oCr
sense of direction, we stopped and in
quired of comely country lass of six
teen or seventeen summers, who was
walking in the same direction. as to
how far we were from Cocalico. She
told us to continue on the roai we
were travelling and that another mile
and a half would bring us to the town.
She answered in the affirmative our
query as to whether she vas walking
there, whereupon we asked her to
jump in and we would let her off
wherever her destination might be.
Looking into the car and observing
there were four men and 70 ladies In
the party she very naively said: Yes,
but that way I amt" II. w
Sir-I am a Philadelphia still who
have been dropped in Lancaster
county and I want to say once more
that r. G. NJ. aint right. Pennsylvania
Dutch is worse than she is wrote yet.
A while ago was told that road
don't give as far but it makes more
the hill up" Till I am here another
year 1 will be learnt to speak it right.
It is expressive, but it makes ugly.
TAURUS.
ITO change the subject, as you sug-
gest,'' writes Honi Soft, suppose we
propose three cheers for the girl who
gallantly refuses to let out the hem
by even a fraction of an inch. Let's
assure her that observing mankind
does not fail to note and approve both
of her reasons for declining to heed
fashions most obnoxious mandate"
The column intends to become en-
broiled in no controversy affecting the
garments of the attractive set II
subscribes to no agendum in behalf
of any mode or fashion. Women look
pretty well, no matter what they wear.
To one for whom the shadows are be-
ginning to chase the sunlight over the
hilltop they look little better with
each succeeding change of fashion.
uran~su,n ssaaar nnons Paan