Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
By John w. Postgate

Q1Vlde IL INTO three parts
and conclusion. First.
mans ingress to the world; second. man s
progress through the world third. man S
egress from the world and, to conclude, man S
life after departure.
" Mans ingress to life is naked and bare:
Man s progress through life is trouble and care
Mans egress from life is nobody knows where.
If we do we'll here, we will do we'll there
l could tell YOU more if l preached whole
year. AMEN"
The coquette has received some very hard
knocks. 1t was George Birdseye who admin
istered this one:
Her pleasure is in lovers coy.
When herself she gives them not thought.
But, like the angler, takes more JOY
In fishing than in fisher caught"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich paid her this COM
piment
Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a spring to snare them all.
Ais one to her; above her fan
She d make sweet eyes at Caliban.'
Nor is Mother Eve neglected by those bitter
satrists The episode of the apple is summed
up in this fashion:
Too soon the knowledge she obtained;
Too late she cursed the prize.
Oh, had she but fool remained,
We should have all been wise
On the relative merits of man and wife, this
view meets the approval of the - better half ::
Says Giles. My wife and are two;
Yet. faith. l know not why. sir
Quoth Jack. Your re ten, if | guess true
She's one and you're cypher.'
Wit of the Bowl
DRINK and drinking call forth much irony
- and biting sarcasm. Honest Tom Decker
says, Drinking healths is drinking sickness.
Shakespeare declares that drinking empties
both purse and BRAIN" and he deplores the
fact that men put an enemy in their mouths
to steal away their brains.
I'm zinc uertigo." the apt perversion of a
famous Latin proverb. fell from the lips of a
Chicago builder who knew whereof he spoke.
Referring to the saying. When wine is in; wit
is out" Bishop of Elizabethan days remarked.
If wit were not out, wine would not be in. t"
Excuses for indulgence in this regard are
as plenty as blackberries. Most of them are
comprised in the triplet by DR.. Aldrich
Good wine, a friend, or being dry
Or, lest we should fbe by and by;
Or any other reason why
Pope's quarrel with Colley Cibber gave oc-
casion for this gibe:
"Quoth Cibber to Pope, Though verse YOU
foreclose.
I'll have the last word for by - I'll write
prose
Poor Colley, thy reasoning is none of the
strongest;
For, know the last word is the word that lasts
longest.
Worrying over little cares and ills of life is
censured by Sims in the Ballads of Babylon >:
" From day to day some silly things
Upset you all together:
Others not soon CONFUSION brings
AS tickling with feather
'GainSt minor evils let him pray
Who Fortunes favor curries:
For one that big misfortunes STAY.
Ten die of little worries
Turberville wrote, on a wealthy niser:
"A miser's mind thou hast
Thou hast princes pelf.
Which makes thee wealthy to thy heir
And beggar to thyself"
GOOD Night"
A MOTHER type of epigram is represented by
the lines on Good Night. written by
Miss Siri Swanander, BROOKLYN school
teacher:
Il stood in the land of the midnight sum-
And tried to say, Good Night
But this day was never done,
Those useless words took flight
How can we ever say Good Night?
There is no night at all;
For every shadow takes its flight
When at Gods feet We fall.