The Lamar register., 1915-11-03

Against lHt Ioal pioNAhSi ltNhf
The lusty hired man will bawl
For thicker blankets on his bed,
The quail will sound his plaintive call
Before the hunter shoots him dead,
The village loafer will bestir
Himself indoors with some regrets,
And the girls will show US bits of fur
Just peeping from their pantalettes.
1t does beat all what styles become,
and what the womenfolks will wear.
I 1t keeps the world from getting glum
and yielding wholly to despair. A
season they are coy and sweet, an
other season fierce and bold. They
keep it up from head to feet as long
as men provide the gold. a bit of
fur is what they feel they ought to
wear this year of grace, of whether
flying from the heel, or maybe glued
upon the face. One sees it waving
in the breeze from bonnets, collars
and from socks; it may be seal from
Greenland's seas, or nothing more su-
perb than fox. 1t may be cat, it may
be dog, the ladies, bless them, do not
care. They'd wear the bristles of a
hog if fashion wore them anywhere.
Thank God, the women are so sweet,
it's hard to make them seem fright;
but seeing them upon the street, ones
courage sometimes says, Goodnight" t."
A lovely miss with two fur bands
around her dainty little limbs can
make a man throw up his hands anad
say the words of seven hymns.
At any rate, the war of kings will
keep our exports on the jump, and
what with making guns and things,
We'll keep our purses pretty plump.
The pickle works will turn out shells,
the cooper shop will take to caps,
the stove works, turning to what sells,
will fashion cannon for the Japs. The
smoke will rise from smokeless flues,
the wheels of business will resume,
the miller will contract for fuse, the
old spaghetti works will boom, the
timer will make coats of mail, the
cracker works will come to bat, the
locomotive plant will hail an order for
bomb-proof hat, the shovel works
will do their best, the powder mills
run day and night, the smelling works
around the West will take orders with
delight, the country editor will turn
his type machines to making balls,
and in the end of this great fight we'll
all reside in marble halls.
But be it as it haply may,
The weather will be very fine;
A tender haze will fill the day,
The air will be as rare as wine.
The robin will return to rest
A moment on the leaf-strewn lawn.
The wary duck will be our guest
A watchful moment getting on.
The cider will begin to work
And pop the stopper in the jug,
And the allies, working on the Turk,
Will join the now departed bug.
November will be a quiet month po-
litically, the chief interest centering
in two or three big drives to be made
by the woman suffragettes. They ar,
still fighting on the eastern battle
front, but they are having sort If
Russian luck. The moon will be full
on the list, and the first twenty days
of the month will be under the in
fluence of Scorpio, the eighth sign Of
the zodiac. Scorpio people are very
farseeing, and they knew tina. some
widow would get the President. The
last ten days of the month will he
influenced by Saggitarrius the Archer,
the ninth sign. Sagitarrians are cold
blooded, and they seldom care whether
the janitor fires up or not. Jupiter
and Venus will divide the responsible
ity of being the evening star, alli-
ances being fashionable just at this
time. Thanksgiving will come on the
25th, but until it becomes clear which
side is winning in Europe it will not
be possible for neutral country Ike
this to be quite sure what it is thank
full for.
And then December will return,
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