Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-29
The OTHER ANGLE
Almost Sense
BY KIRK MILLER.

| Conceding that punch in the jaw is
a punch in the jaw in any language it is
printed and that if this weather remains
normal stamps will be worn a little
further away from the vests than usual
.hings do look very summerish now that
Russia is awakening to the realization
that Germany handed it a genuine, six
lcylinder. drawn-from-t he-wood punch in
the jaw.
/! For long time Russia has been laying
back on its launches thinking that Leon
| Trotzky just slipped 'em gentle little
love pat on the place where you usually
powder your nose. but after inhaling
those Isle glamour actresses all winter
the Inhabitants of Siberia and contin-
gent real estate have awakened to the
| awful fact that Lying Leon. Ltd. issued
! them one sincere kick in the ribs with
no time off for good behavior.
That Russian peace. which was manu-
featured in Germany where they put
| wine in bottles with false bottoms, had
a snow-white dove of peace over to I'M
tansle the spaghetti, Germany imported
one rain crow, which indicates bad
weather. dropping of the elbows. long
drawn-out winter and other things you
cant plant upside-down in your war
garden.
AS soon as the Russianites saw that rain
crow with the poison ivy leaf dangling
from it's bill they knew the peace messag e
from Germany had been sent collect. Rain
crows predicate rain in Slavic, same as in
; any other language and right way all the
Russian bubiOnS commenced to forecast
rain, and rheumatism parked itself gem
orally on Russian shoulderbades and
hips
Everything in gay old Russ came to a
standstill. except whiskers, and they came
up for more air. Instead of bringing the
olive leaf TrotZky snugPied in Il cargo
Of olive oil. and how he did dispense the
old oil among the oilshivik constituency
Those birds hadn't had any more oil
than Washington had had sugar and
when they ran across a Luther Burbank
who was willing to give it away. they
started to slipping it in habit forming
installments.
Soon they had imbibed themselves in
to swoon and instead of realizing that
they were getting punch in the jaw
with and ccasional kick in the vest
they thought the good old days had
returned when you could send a letter
to the Skiptsopian Islands for cents
cash. Seems with a little more of this
tepid weather Russia should be able to
uncurl itself completely from it's win
ter trance and come to life like reSu-
lar country.
All that it now needs to get back into
the good graces Of the world is to learn
that safety razors were not made ex-
clusively for Mexican hairless poodes and
that the skip-stop system has got the
eighth wonder OF the world knocked fur
Their than John d. is from the draft age.
Other bits of modern world nomencla-
ture that Russia must get hep to before
it can thoroughly abdicate from German
/; influences are that palm beach suits con-
tain more wrinkles to the square inch than
a washboard: that pants are not going
to be worn with lapels this spring: that
trench coats are not made by hoorerS
and that punch in the face is jab in
the jaw, no matter what your nationality
Now when Russia becomes thoroughly
cognizant of the fact that the expedition
which. assisted America in discovering
Christopher Columbus was entirely stag
affair and that there were no soprano
sailors on board. it ought also to learn
that three aces are still the superior of
two pairs and that no matter how many
whiskers compose a bolshevik caucus, one
| swift punch in the nose is equivalent to a
slap in the face, regardless of who owns
the face.