The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-22
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY u. HOUSE.
gFrOm Phiiedslphia Public LsdssEl

We feel that we are far enough
along in "Babbitt% to become oracuiar
about it. We've known 10000 George
F. Rabbits, and Mr.. Lewis's photo
graph is authentic But we never
knew a Mrs. Myra Rabbit, and we
doubt that she exists. A woman
is phi1andering and she smakes a fuss
about it.
| We don't think George was fooling
Myra much, at that. But he stSyco
out one night until daybreak the fol-
lowing morning. gave no explanation
of his absence and escaped cross -ques-
tioning. No such szenlan ever lived.
| T. H s. feels that we ought not to
stay too long behind the nearest bill
board. He thinks We might miss
something. There isn't a chance. We
seek the cover of the nearest bill
board after every election in order
without offending anybody. But we
shouldn't miss anything If We stayed
there all the times
There is a theory that elections turn
on the issues of the day; but there's
nothing to it. Election Day is the
Roman holiday on which the voters
| try, and metimes succeed, to get
even with somebody who never did
them any harm.
The Business of Making Mr.. Hazen
Famous
| Sir-On October IS you suggested
in your column that we publish the
autobiography of D. w. Hazen, of
the Portland Telegraph.
I write at this late date because
our clipping bureau is so frightfully
behindhand.
you help US in any way to get a look
at his book? The thought turks in
my mind that maybe you were just
spoofing. 1t any rate, do let me
HORACE LIvERIGHT.
| We don't suppose Mr.. Hazen has
| a book and we did not exactly suggest
that Boni & Liveright publish his
autobiography. What we said was
that Mr.. Hazen's purely human ex-
periences were much richer than Mr..
Kemp's and that, of the two, he is the
better writing-man. Mr.. Hazen has
lived. Mr.. Kemp, on the other hand,
has, in these later years, spent most
of his time in Greenwich Village.
However, while we hate a braggart
and a boaster, il Mr.. Hazen had a
manuscript and we We're persuaded
Boni e. Liveright We're the proper peo-
pie to publish it, we have no hest
fancy in saying we could get it for
them.
Meanwhile, may we suggest that
the tendency to self-revelation, which
now dominates current literature, is
being carried too far. In the first
place, the people may get tired of it,
and, in the second, it is an infringe
ment on our own copyright.
The columns cry of distress brought
forth a ticket for the Yale-Princeton
game. Tt probably is too much to
expect that our luck Will hold for the
Army-Navy contest.
Never-Endfng Quest for Information
Sir-Will you kindly give the
origin of the quotation, You pulled
a Clare Sheridan. and if it be not
an impertinence, we would like to
know who is Daisy Bell? We are
devoured with curiosity. We cannot
or being of your own creation.
The author of the quotation is a
was concealed behind the unfriendly
cover of anonymity 1t is a whim-
wham for the cognoscenti. One
must know Mrs. Sheridan to get its
full force and effect, and that de-
nghtfu1 experience is not vouchsafed
mere commoners-
We have the creative faculty only
in limited neasure.f We are quite
incapable of wrestling from the i'm
agination a lady pulchritudinous
and clever as Daisy Bell. w. may
rest assured that she is authentic.
Correct as Amended
r. Sir-It has just come to my notice
that Grigsby Station, Kansas, tired to
extinction of the brand of publicity