The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-09
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


| This column is in receipt of what
might be regarded as flattering, il
somewhat enigmatic communication.
Through the medium OF the ubiQui-
tous postcard.
| On the near-side of which appears
the following strange and curious le-
gend-
IF you consider your advice so
good, why give 1t away"
| In red letters against a white back
ground.
And, motto-wise, surrounding the
figure of a naughty female leading 4
dog of preposterous anatomy.
In the offing deploys remnant
counter collection of sinuous males
bearing sealed envelopes.
And on the fringes appears weirdly
Chunks of Wisdom" in large, fat
caps.
Printing office caps.
On the other hand the facade is dec
Grated with hieroglyphics-whic
would not indicate a rigid course pur-
sued in our best business colleges
to the following effect:
Please let us know through the
Palladium columns when the Bull
Moose funeral will be-"
Signed. Bill Smith"
Passing lightly over the seeming in
consistency of the reserve sides of this
interesting communication and the
! fact that BILL Smith, may or may not
be Bill" but another man by the
same name-or mayhap some victori-
Gus. If degenerate, member of the COM
ing dominant political classes posted
within the purlieus of Palladium-or
hideous deduction. a message from
the submerged ones whom the pictur-
esque Frederick Lands denominated
as the descendants of Jesse James
passing, as just said, lightly on-we
come to the stamp.
A cocky-looking one-center, pasted
ing rules and regulations.
Or instructions from the oracles of
the women's section in the Sunday pa
pers.
A dissipated seeming stamp which
had the general appearance Of having
made night of it.
OR pasted on by someone having a
juicy and hilarious jag.
Incidentally the contents of the
glue-pot had been emptied in its en-
viron.
While this description may sound
like the detective stories published by
the Bobbs-Merrill Company and plat
ted out for the consumption of the
fingertip experts it is not with such
deadly intent.
Merely to let Bill Smith know his
card was received and placed, accord
ing to Hoyle, on this columns type
writer.
rs the gentleman anonymous? Is he
a great unknown"
Is this Bill or is Bill afraid to sign
his real name!
Jump into the arena, Bill, and biff
this column in the face. Don't sneak
round by way Of the post office de-
partment and the menials who go for
the mail.
| Anonymous postcard writer's are,
too, sometimes classed with towards,
cads and other human debris.
But we opine this is not BILL
Bill is a humourist
OF that peculiar brand which buys
postcards at drug-stores and sends
them to the people he may or may not
know.
And then tip-toes round after dark
and looks through the windows to
watch his victims scrutinizing them
under the family lamp.
II Bill isn't a member Of the Repub-
lican County Central Committee he's
a Prohibitionist.
He isn't Democrat.
No self-respecting Democrat would
take the trouble to write postcards to
anybody at this juncture.
1t isn't necessary.
AS to the Bull Moose funeral-it
isn't case of funeral but a christ
ening.
The Bull Moose party is a lively in
FAINT and is just out of his swaddling
| clothes
When the hoary-headed old Demo
Gratis are sitting round the work
house fire reminiscing of the past glo-
ries of their party the Bull Moose
will be dancing at his coming out ball.
The Republican party won't be do
ing anything.
Because it will be Wondering in the
tomb.
The undertakers have the body and
are preparing the winding sheet.
What is a winding Sheet" casually
inquired the misanthrope.
The Spanish for shroud," whisper
ed the other person.
In any event when the funeral does
come off it won't be in Wayne County.
And the only occasion for a
| funeral at all will be in the event
of strangulation by the Fairbankses.
Kealings and Penroses and other of
their peculiar ilk who might capture
the party organization in a future
| which contains no such possibility.
You can't discount the Progressives.
Nor man who can make a new par
ty in twenty-four hours that will. in
three months time, disrupt and nulIify
one Of the Oldest and most powerful
DOlitical examinations kpovr 20 &ho