The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10

Gruppy, the company being composed
of members of the art department of
the Topeka Federation of Women.
A guest at the tea was Mr. Merrill
Gage, who made an address on art.
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A student down at K. U. this year.
one Derald Hartley, has written some
verses in burlesque of the present
vogue for the futurist style of poetry
affected by certain of the highbrows
and exploited in most of the maya
zines. The lines recount how a man
who was a plumber gave up his trade
to write poetry to order, and his lines
contain a sample OF the cubist verse
he turns out. Mr.. Hartley has friends
among the Topeka people who are
students at the university Following
are his lines on Art
Brcezed in the door; slammed up his
-'Morninr' to stenog.. just like that
''Mornin" snaps latter, Business is
big,
Swamped with orders-we gotta dig!"
-'whoop-'em-up, Liza! Wen knock
EN- cold!"
(This from The Big Noise. Cleaner of
Gold.)
He was Poet: who shall say nay ?
He was a gent that made it pay.
Once was a plumber; two-fifty per;
Reckless one day, married a Her.
Plumbing was scarce, wages went
High Cost of Living-few things
more
Kept him guessing-Elias Dubp-
Keeping his family filled with grub.
One fine day he read an ad-,
Made him happy, awfully glad:
| Verses to order-we strive to please"
An Idea camel I'll be one of these!
Nothing but nerve; I've got enough;
l think I'll wrastle that kind o stuff"
He sent out letters, two cents a sent
| Told the people just what he meant.
| He waited awhile, ard then some more.
| Business seemed to Shun his door.
But at last, as some things will,
| Golfers soon began to fill
| Orders came for odes and songs,
| Laments for a thousand wrongs,
Death and taxes, vice and booze,
Any subject that you choose:
ELIAS Dubb will write that wall,
Get your poem by next MALL"
Lets see, Snaggs. number thirty
three four;
What? Verse libre? They want some
more?
I sent that bunch wad last week,
| Somebody's think tanks sprung a
leak.
| OF all the stuff that gets my goat
It's liver verse. Put On your coat
And run down there to Jinkses' bar
And get some MUSES. in this jar"
So threats were gargled. MUSES. wooed
| And Dubbs began in ghostly mood:
Shades of Omar
| Riding straddle hypnotic Muse.
[ hear the nighbrow,
Pen athwart one ear,
On slab of asbestos
| Composing verse libre-"
| "Oi Busting Ford tires,
| Blowing many blows
Fitting as a f1iver should ought to
fit
! Yank its stubby tail,
For Halley's Comet is a naughty cuss
I Bring, o bring,
/ Lyd. Pinkham from ethereal dome,
/ Preaching sterling Truth
With gestures from Montgomery
! Ward
Here, sitting beside me
/ In my Biliousness,
/ Angle-worms chatter:
] Who made the Fourth Dimension de-
| mented?'
Ossifer, o, ossifer! Shoot me not with
thy shooter
1 feel much better now
O-O-Ouch,"
"Snaggs, By immortal Bill ]. Bryan,
I've a notion to stop tryin',
/ If orders like this keep on comm,
I'm a-goin' back to plumbin."
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The Impromptu club met Wednes-
day night with Mrs. D. c. Tillotson Of
Fillmore street.
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Miss Gladys Neil, who is i'll with
tonsilitis, will not be able to take hel
part in the show. Miss Nancy" anC
Miss Helen Griffin will take the role
in her place.
The tickets for the two evenins
performances of Miss Nancy have beer
/ practically sold out. and the matinee
seats are going well.
One of the features of the play will
be the folk dances, introducing Aus
trian, Russian, Swedish and Danisl
dances. They are done by bevies o
, Topeka's prettiest and most charmin,
girls and will be finished in every de
tail.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Mary A ]. Devlin of New
York City and her daughter, Mrs
Donald MOffafI and Donald MOffat