Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-06

We know that the ladies Will feel tndt
they are sufficiently recognized when
we tender them the regular army sa-
lutte. At least that is what will nave
to 60 from now on"
LITTLE FABRICATIONS.
"She wrote back home from France
with no thought Of publication"
If YOU imagine that the soldiers
don't crave the old home tobacco u.s.
ten to this that one Of the boys wrote
in acknowledgement OF pack
o. his favorite tobacco received from
home: Il tell you that Virginia LEAF,
with its sweet delights and with SUI
mach or kinnikinnick gently min
gled spreads around such a pastllled,
ecclesiastical air that no sensation that
is can be compared thereto, unless 1t
be the kiss of your sweetheart during
sermon time under the lee of high
backed old-fashioned pew
MANY are of the opinion that that
luncheon that Senator Chamberlair
and Secretary Baker had together at
Washington last week was the begin
ming of piece negotiations between
them.
c. r. WEED tells the New York Sun
that a lie is a Hun-truth. He says
that he can't tell where he heard it
aid it may be original with him for
all he knows.
"I'r not a grumbler. Far from it.
| have done my bit at every turn in
the road since war was declared by
my country But l do insist that we
are doing some silly things in our
efforts at conservation. For instance,
/ know Of factory not more than a
hundred miles remote from Rock Is
, land-not one of the largest, as you
may guess-that so far has lost sew
eral thousand dollars in delayed work,
its employees have had their pay en-
velopes shortened more than a thou
sand dollars, and all that was saved
in coal was single car load. Do
you call that conservation? l don't.
l call it damphoolishness.
'OSWALD.
DON'T let them kid you with this
'bled white stuff regarding France,
writes an American from lover there.
! Its German camouflage." In other
words, another scheme to throw a
scare into the American boys who are
being shot across.
TAKE THAT, BLUE EYES.
Now, Blue Eyes, l don't think you're
nice,
To criticise my verse,
For though am not prejudiced,
Yours is whole lot worse.
Although you are a maiden fair,
! I'll bet you cannot sew,
And that although you are no cook,
| You sure can spend the dough.
e. c. X.
TROTZKY declares he went tt
| Russia to do bis bit If he woult
have said to get his bit he would have
come nearer to telling the truth.
THE four-minute men have been in
structed to cut the hate in their ad
dresses. Heat might prove prefer
able substitute during this old weather
CHICAGO has enough whisky to las
two years. Then what is to becom.
of the fellow that can leave it alone
NOT GRAFT; IT'S A GIFT.
Lii Russell says many women d.
not realize for moment how fire.
quently they descend to petty graf
in small ways or they would 60 out o
their way to avoid such a condition
In the matter of motor cars, she dc
clares women do not hesitate to rim;
themselves in among women who owl
cars in order to get cemfortabl,
ride.
NAME DELETED BY CENSOR.
If whisky causes people to do an,
act like we are told that a 60-year-ol,
man in the upper part Of the count,
done and acted a few nights ago, GU
advice to all men is quit drinking i
right nOw.-Dahlonega (Ga.) Echo.
THEDA Bara dropped off in Chi
cago enroute to the Pacific coast t,
get two days rest. And then sh,
proceeded to dig trenches in tn
amusement pages of the newspapers
which is the hardest possible kind O
labor in these days of the high pric,
OF print paper.
THE Rock Island Churchmen's Fed
GRAFTON is publishing a dry pape
which Is toebe continued until afte
local option is again threshed ou
in April. 1t may be a dry paper, an.
all that, but you'll find 1t pretty juic
in spots. Evidently the editor doesn'
propose TO let 1t get SO dry that no
. body will read it, In other words
he Stops to the punch occasionally
even though it be not nice soundin,
word to be associated with a publica
ton OF its character.
J. N. c.