The Washington herald., 1917-10-08

Our Old Friend, Pietro, the Organ
Grinder, where Is He.
Did you ever hear old Pietro. a.
grinding out his tune,
Did you ever hear him play the song.
Under the Silvery Moon?
Have you ever thought he earned
enough to keep his wife in duds,
Or elothe his regiment of kids and
keep them all in spuds?
He played the Marseillaise, and then
he played The Wacht Am Rhein,
He played old yankee Doodle" and
The Girl Left Behind"
He ground out "Annie Laurie" and
Way Down in Dixieland."
And then came Traviata right on
top of Rustlcann.
He's getting scarcer every day. I
wonder where is he,
1 have hunch he's gone to fight for
his dear Italy.
His wife is sewing shirts and socks,
his kids are making hay.
They'll all be doing this until the
war has gone to stay.
Consolation.
The tears which thou didst shed for
me.
Not utterly I rue them,
For oh, 1 could not fail to see
The love-light shining through
them.
My needless hand a wound had
wrought
The falling drops revealed It;
But comfort lies within the thought
That with a kiss 1 healed it.
EMILY CONSTANT.
Amt 1t the TRUTH
Out in Illinois, they arrested a
man for stealing apples out of the
poorhouse orchard. A woman wait
ed on the side of the road for him
with two empty sacks So much for
that.
A long time ago, a woman swiped
an apple and gave It to a man, and
ever since we have had poorhouses
But She's AwfuIIy Good to Her Folks
Mrs. J. 8. Homley. of Lethbridge,
has come to the city to spend the
winter with her daughter, Miss Vera
Homley.-Calgary Herald.
How About This Townf
One reason why milk is high was
set forth by H. G. Wells in a book
published nine or ten years ago.
quoting from 'Elihu's classic tract:"
observe how private enterprise
supplies the street with milk. At
1880 a milk cart comes numbering
along and delivers milk at one house
and away again. Half an hour later
another milk cart arrives and de-
liVers milk first on this side Of the
street and then on that, until seven
houses have been supplied, and then
ne departs. During the next three
hours four other milk carts put in
an appearance at varying intervals,
supplying a house here and another
there. until finally, as II draws to-
ward noon. their task IS accom-
pIished and the street supplied with
milk.
The time actually occupied by
one and another of these distribu-
tors OF milk makes in all about one
hour and forty minutes, six men and
six horses being required for the
purpose, and these equipages rattle
along, one after the other, all over
the district, through the greater part
OK the day, in the same erratic and
extraordinary er,"-Chicago Trib-
une.
Gabe Harkin sex,
Ther gal en- ther boy whut useter sjt
In ther parler in ther dark winter
evenin's now sit In ther movie theater
outa sight Nv their kinfoIks.''
Where Is the boy, who spen, his
time. a'readlng books and things?
Where is the boy, you thought was
tied, to his mothers apron strinps3
Where Is the boy who always work.
ed, and always saved his coin?
Hes out in camp a'drilling. with q
gun strapped to his loin.
He's I'm the Army Now.
Where Is the hoy who never worted
but was shark at pool?
Where is the boy who drank tha
booze. and always played the fool?
Where is the boy You always
thought he'd never fight?
He's out In camp a'driIIing. a'driIl-
ing with all his might.
Fabrieste You Own FrivoL
The other day they took a youth,