The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-03
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well boss the uncertainty
keeps up here mean the uncertainty
about myself the round OF
Invitations which expected has not
materiali1ed things 20 right
ahead a. 70 were not in washington
at all
1 scarcely know how to explain
It invited myself to breakfast with
high official Of the government the
other day and would you
believe II { nearly lost my life one Of
the servants chased me away with
broom am beginning 10 think
that my efforts to save the country
and
bolster up the committee Of
publicity in the work II Is doing are
not
appreciated Sometimes 1 think
will snub this war from now on how
would the government take that hey
archy
BIurb.
The Columns series of Interviews
in Rhyme will gradually work down
toward the present day. There are
some details of an unfortunate oe-
currence in the Garden Of Eden that
have never been put before the public,
and the Columns representative IL at
tempting to get q frank talk with
Satan. Adam has had his say, and
Eve has been extensively quoted. But
Satan has never told all he knows.
Among the other Interviews to come
are a talk on matrimony BY the late
Henry the Eighth OF England, 4 little
article on Shakespeare as / Knew
Him, by Queen Elizabeth, and an Gp-
probation Of the German people, by
Frederick the Great, who invented
Germany because he had q Crouch on
the world, which did not appreciate
his poetry. They think this 10 the
worst I can do, do theyT said Fred
erick. reading one OF the reviews Of
his poems. VERY well! They shall
see" Our interviewer, perhaps II
should be explained, Is q psychic
gink; all he has to do 10 call up
shade and 20 to It. When we Rave
worked down to the present we In
tend to get some talks with some llv-
ing people, including . few dead ones
who don't know II yet. And our In
terviewer may reach into the future
and grab OF a few personalities as
vet not incarnated. This column
spares no pains or expense In It's
policy OF keeping Its readers In touch
with the here, the heretofore, and
the hereafter. When this world has
been used up. there are other planets
and speaking OF using up
worlds, one Of the most informing
little Interviews will be with Alex
ander the Great. You can not Anord
to miss the column: make arrange
ments to borrow the paper from
neighbor.
NV movie queen! my movie queen!
so sweet and full Of virtue, no mat
ter what they do to you they never
seem to hurt you!
They tie YOU to the railroad tracks,
they blow you UP with powder, they
pour invectIve In your ears and pol
son in your chowder, but still you
never come to harm; you only laugh
the louder!
Nv movie queen! my movie queen!
what Is the secret charm?
No matter what they do to you, you
never come to harm!
The scarlet-robed adventures pur-
Ioins your marriage papers, the hand
some villain always cuts ungentle-
manly capers. they drop you from an
aeropIane, they drown you in river
i sit and watch the plots they hatch
until / pale and SILVER! / see them
aiming guns at you, or doctoring your
candy, 1 see them choking you with
ropes, or anything that's handy and
tremble for my movie queen: the vii
lains get me worried.
But through It all my movie queen
IL smiling and unhurried!
They tie you in the haunted house
and menace you with axes, they SEND
YOU into cholera camps devoid OF
prophylaxis. they throw you In sau,
sage mill and chortle as they grind
II
Nv movie queen! my movie queen!
YOU never seem TO mind It.
but in the end. my movie queen.
your goodness earns its priee-death
| comes 10 them as has done wrong
and wealth to them that's nice! You
weep a EIycerine tear or two, and
with the hero chapple you oseulate for
thirty feet and all 10 we'll and happy
Your secret, girl. 10 wonderful, II one
could only find Il. for even when he
| kisses you, you do not seem to mind
II! DUN MAi'|OiS'