The Delta independent., 1905-11-17
Jest and Jin9les
A Denver Girl.
By James Barton Adams

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ADenver Girl.
She was stylish maid in tailor clothes,
Her figure (f twere genuine) was great.
The smiling features grouped about her more
We're up to date.
She stood as II enrapturetl gazing on
The mountain panorama over there.
Al in the eastern heavens broke the dawn
In beauty rare.
"a lovely view!' We ventured to exclaim;
Her bosom rose und fell to pump sigh
A sl,e replied. her l,lstrous eyes afinme:
"sure, tlrat no lie.
''The hand Titanic that upheaved those rocks
Was Of most wondrous power and wide Of reach
Sle dreamily replied: '.You fet your socks!
Ii was peach!
"No painter brush could catch the tints that
Those towering peaks that reach to kiss the
skie~!'
"A painter HUH" she said with glowing fBce.
They ne not his size.''
And sse those clouds. 40 wier,ilike Floating er
Like derelict@ sdlrift on azure seas.
And this reply from OF her string she tore:
They re just the cheese
Are you not from Missouri 8 sunny clime:
She stuffed into its place a truant curl
And answered me: Not on your whiskers! I'm
A Denver girl!
The Cossacks make their fercest
showing during strikes and in Wild
West shows.
Justice occasionally takes a peep ov-
er the bandage that covers her eyes. A
Cincinnati court has awarded alimony
to a divorced husband.
It is said that the Russian people
were intoxicated with joy over the cars
manifesto. They were less dangerous.
perhaps, than when intoxicated with
vodka.
Theodore Roosevelt's last trip is bear
ing good fruit. Quite a number of the
southern papers now refer to him rs
''our president.
There about 800 physical lepers in the
United States. If the moral lepers
were enumerated quite . string Of ciph-
ers would have to be added to the num-
ber. 4
What a refreshing novelty it must
have been to Theodore Roosevelt to
travel all the way from New Orleans to
Washington and make no speeches en-
route.
The doctors claim that kissing is more
dangerous in winter that in summer.
possibly because more of it is done in
the house where the girls old man is
liable to hear the smacks.
A man who sat in \ transatlantic polk
er game lost &c, 500 because he threw
down three aces to 4 pair of fours. It
goes without saying that the loser was
not Colorado man. Dunno about the
other fellow.
A New York paper has unearthed the
fact that Mutual McCurdy once wrote
poetry. When q man once starts down
hill everyone seems aching to give him
= kick.
His mighty majesty, the cxar. has ''tur-
tled," and It's well:
He scented danger from a-near and
cravled into his shell;
He saw the Revolution tide in angry
billows roll
And knew he soon might get it where
our Katie had the mole.
A Winfield. Kansas. man was danger
ously injured by street car motor the
other day. The motor hailed from Mis-
souri, and wore long ears and shaved
tail.
That little squall which hit the vessel
on which Roosevelt was q passenger off
Cape Hatteras can be forgiven. much
n the act may have bordered on lese
majestic. 1t is mighty seldom old
Neptune gets an opportunity to shake
up real live president.
While ut target practice a few days
ago the gunners Of the cruiser Colorado
hit the mark forty times in succession.
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