South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-29

and that II VIII mean the lifting OF
no epidermis from our anatomy
Of course. a man who gets $4,000
a year would be willing. il he had
an income OF 100000 year. 70
pay the government $4,000 of it.
But he doesn't like to pay $40 on
the $4,000.
A Boston spiritualist says after
as il did before its release from its
tenement Of clay. We suppose it
begins TO worry as soon as it ascer-
tains how smoothly the old world
runs along just the same.
Peace hath her ecstacies no less
thrilling than war. There were p
600 democrats appointed postmas-
ters last month. 1t seems TO us that
even the very angels must have
walked the echoes of the New Je-
rusalem,
AS we understand it, France is
bled white, Britain is stupid and
America can't fight. But outside of
these DEFICIENCIES. the allies are COM
ing along very well. thank you.
A grandson of Francis Scott Key.
author OF Star Spangled Banner"
has been decorated by King AL
bert OF Belgium. Yes, and we will
bet six sesterces that he doesn't
know the words OF the song
Sherman said war is hell" before
he had an opportunity to inspect
the war poetry.
We don't favor a tax on summer
furs. The furs are a sufficient af-
Fiction in themselves.
u looks 10 us as if the Germans
are almost ready to ask for a truce
in order to arrange sleeping hours
FrancO-AngIais Medley.
A Mishawaka boy who is with
the army in France had a furIough
in Paris recently, and after return
ing to the trenches wrote the fol-
lowing lines. which he has sent to
US:
All, Paris, mes enfants. Paris gal.
Je suis heureux that je got awayi
Avec mon shoes and pants and
Mais je left behind mon VIM. Goat.
Les demoiselles sont tres jolie.
But from them all je was glad TO
fee;
lie temps went vite. mon mOnnaie
too.
Il went so vite, il fairly few.
Paris. c'est lively. to that je'I
swear.
Que must il have been avant lie
guerre?
And dit-on, boys, I'll be back there
Toute de suite apres lie guerre!
Quite a number Of our older men
will recall that baseball was once
quite a popular sport in the United !
States. but it is no longer in vogue. /
If things do not change pretty I
soon the kaiser wiz change the
spelling OF Colt by using one It" 1
and a little g"
II is said clothing is scarce in f.
Austria Has Austria exhausted the /
possibilities in the way of observing /
the McAdoo patch?
From some Of the talk OF the
German generals which appears in
the German press we take ii that
IL has become custom in Ger
many for a reporter TO hit his man
on the head with a bung-starter
before permitting him TO reel off
the story.
Gee, they have squad OF four
minute singers in South Bend. We
want TO see this thing thoroughly
tried out before staging it in Mish-
awake.
The first report that Lenine was
killed. the second that he was ia
tally hurt, the third that he is re-
covering. Let us hope that the last
two reports are lies.
The women OF Mishawaka. il is
said. are Stacking in Red Cross
work Ladies OF leisure. what the
country requires of YOU is to learn
TO labor and do without Not that
IL won't win without you, but IL
loves YOU so much II wants you to
have the thrill and glory Of serving
in the crisis.
The local Liberty loan committee
is in receipt Of the following: I'm
sorry that / can't help some way
to win the war, but my new twins
take all my time" Noble little