The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-07
The California Summer Girl.

(. Ny Summer eirl-dear Summer Girl
Out hare you are a-Plenty.
Your beauty sets NE in whirl-
I Your age ne'er more than twenty,
although its true they say.
That ages. out THIS way,
Cannot be figured on the summer" basis,
For this IS one or these delightful places
Where Winters are but Indian Summers
all.
THAT makes those twenty" stories
rather tail.)
But Summer GirI-dear Summer Girl
Your Eastern sister peaches
Included not one single pearl,
Such as adoru OETR beaches
although to tel the truth.
From earliest DAYS Of youth
I've liked the Rubies just as well as
And even Rates and Maudes as summer
girls.
And greater is my joy to know at least,
That here are twenty beaches 10 one East
! Duncan NJ. smith said that the clever
est Joke which nc had ever written was
enc which he manufactured about -.
! Louis some weeks ago ana was All Is
Fair in love and war and St Louis
Every man present DECLARED mat ne
originated that Joke himself and Mr.
smith retorted with the remark that he
always saw his jokes in their papers a
few days after he had published them
Mr.. Smith claims the distinction OF De
ing the man who made the name OF smith
famous.
Mr., smith grinds out daily column OF
laughter for the Chicago News
Think OF punsteF with the name OF
Graves
Yet Richard 5. Graves ~ St. Joseph,
Mo-. writes humorous sketches which are
punished IN magazine articles all over
the country.
He says that he took up hunor as 4
profession just 10 c0unteraet the influence
of that melancholy name.
Thomas A DAILY Of Philadelphia was
asked by the Star to Telat. his best joke
al responded with the following;
1t may be hard to save your tin,
But there is this about it,
It's easier 10 live within
Your income than without II.
Mr. DAILY is the manager OF the Catholic
Standard and Times Of Philadelphia, and
contributes humorous poetry to Il and TO
the Philadelphia Press ana Philadelphia
ledger
William + Kirk OF the Milwaukee senti-
nel Is best known by reason OF his SWed-
ish and Norwegian dialect poetry. Here
Is a sample of his work which he cone
siders TO be the best of all;
Joyfully. joyfuIIy. joyfulfy onward
In dis har valley Of death
Rode the sax hundred
1t ban a cinch. tank
Some gFeCZer Numbered.
Hustle. you light brigade,
'Yump." Maester Olsen said,
Den in his valley of death
Cannon on right of dem,
Cannon on left of dem.
Cannon behind dem. too,
Noileyed and tundered.
Finally. say Captain Break.
We got enough, dy tank,
Let's go and get d drenk-
BaUt tWcnty-saX com back
Out of sax hundred.
Kirk says that he doesn't write verses
he writes real poetry.
When the last great day OF reckoning
comes J. NJ Lewis viii have to answer for
the 'Tampering with TTifies'' column OF
the Houston Post. Lewis SONS times re-
members that and then he never can
write any funny stuff for a day or two
When asked by the Star for his best
composition Lewis replied with the fol-
lowing;
Pa what did Booker Washington,
That people call him great?
Hath he some deed of vaIor doae2
Or steered affairs Of state?
OF course if he hath done this thing
1t serves as quite a boost.
But could he. even 10 the great
Go past a chicken TooSt2
The 'Whim-W ham'' column OF the
Yonkers Statesman has been a creature or
the prolific brain of Edwin A Oliver for
twenty-seyen years. Oliver wrote the fol-
lowing poem years ago, and to this day he
is so proud of it that he handed IL 10 the
Star as the poem IN all his work in which
he takes thegreatest pride;