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I don't like Kansas. At least not from a car window. If you. . . . . . like flat fields . Kansas may please you for a little while. . . . By nightfall the state will wear down the hardiest.
Colyumist Broun ended by relating that he used to tell ambitious young westerners who asked his advice about coming to New York: "There are no jobs. Don't come to New York. Stay where you are. You'll be better off." Hereafter his ad vice will be: "There are no jobs [in New York]. You'll probably have a terrible time. But come ahead, anyway. Hurry! Fly for your life before it is too late."
Colyumist Broun got off at Tucson, Ariz., where he has planted his son in school. Super-colyumist Brisbane sped on to the Hearst ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Editrix Patterson tarried briefly in Washington, which she scandalized by printing newspictures of Negroes, thus boosting Hearst darktown circulation.
* Not to be confused with Nelly Ely of Stephen Collins Foster's oldtime folksong. Mr. Brisbane assumed that everyone remembers Miss Eliza beth Cochrane who, writing as "Nellie Ely," circled the world in 72 days for the New York World in 1889—90.
† Ledger Syndicate.
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