The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-25
ON SECOND. THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.l

! Further than to observe that the
coal miners have substantiated our as
severation that the radical is always
a fool, we shall spend the day Cos
siping with the customers Usually we
feel the urge to save the country every
day, and we have long been curious
as to what would happen should We
relax our vigilance for a period of
twenty-four hours. The time seems
meet for the experiement, and we
shall try it.
Me thinks it i'll becomes you to H.
dulge in discussion of lingerie. 1t has
been a happy circumstance to the
writer that one paper he reads has
one man on its staff who thus far
has disdained such discussion as a
space-filler. Your column has been
singularly clearly written in the more
than twenty months have been read
ing it. Why not keep it SOP
We have always left the discussion
of lingerie and kindred topics to
But we place no stress upon this vol
untary act of abnegation. To us the
discussion of lingerie and kindred
topics seems the cheapest and most
tiresome form of physiological ban
ter. 1t bores us stiff.
All we try to do is keep the col
umn cleaner than the home. 1t isn't
much of an effort to do so, and We
ask no credit for it.
And that brings US to a woman's
viewpoint of the matter, as expressed
by Mrs. r. P. "a propos of the flan-
mel nightgown," she writes, Il should
think in these days of universal expos
ure man would hail with delight
a wife bold enough to encase herself
in flannel armor. How much more
is she an inspiration to the sight and
touch. rosy-cheeked and warm, than
another shivering in three-eighths of
a yard of orchid georgette, with a
nose of corresponding hue. 1 was
once one of the orchid brigade, ad-
nit, but five years of frenzied gallop-
ings up and down draughty corridors
in response to midnight calls for a
'dinky water and other miscellanies
have weakened my fiber, and sadly
admit that now I wear them other
wise. However, my better half Can
other admission Yields no scalpel and
loves me in flannel or vice versa. Yes
flannel has a vice versa, so it really
doesn't matter what other jaundiced
souls may think. Besides looking al
| me you'd never suspect it.
Our own reaction Ito it IL is thai
the theatrical producer dealing almost
exclusively in feminine charm who
fifteen or twenty years ago, substi-
tuted the black silk stocking for the
fleshling was one of the smartes
| gazebos that ever lived.
Personally. we have seen abou
everything there is to see and our in
| terest lags, but because we love t.
read and must make "a living as {
writing man. we hope for long tint
to come to retain our eyesight unim
paired.
DRY your tears" writes T. X S
oscar Egg is going in the six-day bi
cycle race"
That makes the six-day bicycle
race for us. Those who follow tina
particular form of sport will recall
that Oscar wasn't in the last one. ant
we lost all interest in it.
The fog of mystery which enve1opeC
the appearance of our name on tn
mailing list of a Kansas City firm en-
gagged in oil stock promotion ha
cleared away. G. ]. S. writes: "Yol
were probably not a part of an!
| sucker list, but you will be now thru
my thoughtfulness. 1 have studied thu
literature of film-f1am oil promotion
for years and find it more thrilling
| than novels. Each persuasive tale o
| great prospective wealth is accom-
panied by a return postcard. Severa
weeks ago 1 typed your name to {
| Kansas City promoters return. You'll
never get rich columning, but by read
/ ing the tons of fortune stories yoJ
will now receive you can at least fee
wealthy at times"
| At any rate, we feel much better
| about it. Our earnest endeavor fol
| the last twenty-five years has been di
rected toward erasing traces of the
| ''hick" environment from which We
| sprang. We thought we had made g
| fairly good job of it, but the receipt
| of oil stock promotion literature shat
! tered our assurance and, so to speak
| our morale. Did we, we wondered
after all our efforts at deodoriza ton
still eXude the scent of the new-mowr
| hay?
| We were, Of a fact. so worried in
| ~ fpF nj a nf 70 oh Ia xr-s