The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-14
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY 4. HOUSE.
(Trom Philadelpais Public Ledssr.)

ST venture to suggest" writes w H.
c.. recurring to our dilemma in the
which had grown too short for golf
and was yet too long for the fireside,
that 1t would have been profitable
for you to spend a moment or so re-
writing the following sentence: OF
those born probably not more than
to business after she had acquired
perfect husband. who gave her
beautiful home, and had become the
mother of adorable babies He must
have been a perfect husband, or would
be so regarded by many women, If he
had become the mother" etc, etc.
The sentence might have been re-
written with some profit to grace and
directness. but not because it is I'M
grammatical or conveys the implica-
ton w. H. c. wrings from it. This
is a short-sentence country, which
suffers excruciating pains from an in
volved and tedious rhetoric. Anything
calculated to relieve its distress is
worth discussing.
Among others distressed by Mr..
Daugherty's sweeping injunction is
Bishop Charles D. williams. That,
we take it, is we'll within the bounds
of personal privilege. But how would
Bishop Williams meet the situation?
In other words, what would the
doctors who are deprecating the
remedies of the attending physician
prescribe for the malady? CONVEX
sational unguent, you will remember,
already had been copiously admins
tered without effect.
The Gibbsinn Twist.
Sir-If you ever break your rule and
decide to use Illustrations in the
column, you might get George Gibbs
of his latest book, THE House of
Mohun,'' as she:
"Sat for moment in silence, her
fingers on the clutch, her foot poised
above the accelerator."
Can you blame her for sitting in
tsilence? In a position of that kind,
what could the poor girl say? B. T.
It may be Mr.. Gibbs can jstify the
futile acrobatic feat in which he has
involved his heroine. If he wishes to
do so, space is his to command. But
cumstance, speech would have been
trying, enunciation difficult.
Speaking of handsome men,"
| writes r. T. from Toronto, how did
Neysa McMein come to pass up Bull
I
Why not ask Miss McMein2
Or, since we have a date with her a
week from Saturday, if r. T. is scared
| to do it, we1l ask her.
Ho, Hum! Looks Like Dry September
Sir-Your repeated references to
yourself as "a, hick from the middle
west" give me pains in the sun parlor.
1 do not question the propriety Of call
ing yourself a "hick," assuming you
have long since followed the advice of
Socrates to know yourself, but the in
ference is that all people from the
middle west are "hicks." Such sup
position shows you to be woefully ig-
norant of both the east and the middle
west. The middle west, my friend, is
to the east what America is to Europe.
| Cogitate and contemplate that SEN
ltence, for it is large in its cerebral
lpotentialities.
| On the other hand, when did Kan
sas horn into the middle west? The
Middle west is made UP of Michigan,
lOhto, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Iowa by consent. When 1 went to
school was led to believe Kansas was
out in No-Man' s-Land. Nothing I saw
when journeyed from Kansas City to
ICoffeyville changed that impression.
tOf course, 1 went thru Oklahoma, but
what is the difference?
| realize your references to yourself
as a thick" are facetious, but the east
doesn't get that stuff. 1.-The east needs
enlightenment and not to be further
Ekidded into a helpless stupidity.