New-York tribune., 1918-04-30
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax

Concerning Rhymes for Rhymeiess
Generals
But spondees and trochees were good in those
times
And doo-dabs like that.
Yet ii ever he'd tried to write verses TO Hais
Well admit that they might have been fogsy
or vague
And utterly fiat.
While his stanzas to Foch-G Generslissino
Foph--
No doubt would be pale pianissimo boshl
But for Pershing, for Pershing-
That rhyme -wrccking third
"R. r." who penned the above, scores
one. He has proved the British COM
mander's right to Immortality in verse.
Well even let him get away with his
rhyme on Foch, because we have yet
gneralissimo's name the same way. But
on Pershing his collapse is complete All
we can do is to await the event Of that
superpoet who can rhyme all three
in one Stanza.
Residents of Greenwich, Conn.,,
who were aroused from slumber
early yesterday by hoa-se asser-
tions under their windows that
the asscrter would not be back un-
til it was over over there. appeared in
court later in the morning as complain
ants against John Gallagher, the mid
night sercnader.
The only trouble is, your honor"
quoth John to Judge Mead, II look
so much like the Kaiser that 1 get ar
rested wherever l go. And to keep
people from arresting me, understand,
your honor, | just sing patriotic songs
wherever | CO."
"1ll give you just ten minutes to get
out Of town." said the judge to William
Hohenzollern's musical double.
Boss" remarked Gallagher earnestly
as he picked up his hat. IL don't need
even that much time"
Bread upon the water is surpassed by
rabbits. Mickey Cattinelle, of 1146
Sevcnty-fiftf Street, Brooklyn, let two
OF his out yesterday and they vanished
After much vain searching the nine
year-old youngster appealed to the DO
lice for aid. Detective Smythe brought
them back in basket-quite a large
basket, for there were eight.
"Wonder if the Kaiser ever played
poker. says Uncle Abimelech Bogar-
dus, of Preakness, N. j., "and If he
knows what generally happens TO- the he
feller who wins like the dickens at the
fb.eeginnin' OF session? And this is
likely to be fright long session."
1t is going to be hard to beat the
sort of men that Phi! l.. Danz. of the
Medical Corps, writes of in q letter to
his family at Southold, L. l., from some
where in France.
Mrs. Borden Hartman" the letter
reads, who has seen good many hos
p'tals IN France and England, says that
this Is about the best of the bunch. At
a a. french hospital surgeon asked her
% II she could stand horrible sight. She
could and was shown man whose BODY
ana face were burned by gas. He was
covered as with one pig sore and one
eye was lost. She said to him:
You're in hard luck" and he an
swered:
know" 'o' 'o0
If George Scheich. of 1854 East Nine
teenth Street, Brooklyn, hadn't washed
dishes for his wife on Sunday dire
things might have fallen to his lot when
ne appeared before Magistrate Nash
IN the Flatbush police court yesterday
TO answer charge of speeding.
r., MS may sound funny" he said.
but it's true. l had to speed because
l was on my way to Valley Stream to
see my mother-in-law, ana | was late
You see. helped my wife dry the
dlsnes: s9 s., that's what delayed me-"
Il like that domestic touch" said
the m9VlStr9tn oyJ