Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
THE CHAFFIlNG DISH

thinks the page proofs will be along about
the year 1000.
Dove also maintains that once the volume
is ready for publication, the publisher will
back it to the limit with a big advertising
appropriation.
Doves theory is an interesting one, and if
Dove weren't SO tedious we would have liked
to discuss it with him more at length. We
did remark, however, that books that are
published by the author himself rarely have
successful sale and are usually panned by
the critics.
Looking over our modest reasons for
thankfulness and preparing our spirit for
the bracing discipline of New Year resolu-
tions, we are very pleased not to be the
owner of a railroad that has been two years
under government control.
But as director general of the Urchin's
clock work train we assert that the success
full conduct of such a system makes the
trousers very baggy.
Out in Cincinnati they face the facts of
modern life with refreshing realism. From
friend in that city we got Christmas card
with the following sentiment printed on it
Perchance 'twW Santa Some,ohqt gripe
To crdWl in through your flats steam pine;
IHOuyH "OueFH apartments arc minus q Uue,
There is no chance that he'U miss you
Our favorte author, Shepherd NJ. Dugger,
well understands the effectiveness of alter
mating the sublime and the comic. Students
of literary art will note his technique in the
following passage:
The beautiful clouds, the ships of the
ethereal sea, in whose electric berths the
giant thunders were sleeping now sailed
oniV mountain. high
senting a side view to the tourists; and, as
they caugho the rays of the sun in their
rigging or allowed his beams to pass
through between them to the beautiful
earth below, the landscape was leopardized
for miles around with a moving robe of
light and shadow,
Just at this instant a buffetng breeze
lifted Shippers light hat from his crown
and gave him lively southwark race for
| it's recovery and every time that one of his
big feet went forward, the heel of the
other flew up behind and hit him on the
hip, while his great hands were extended
forward in pursuit of the structure of
cereal straw.-The Balsam Groves of
Grandfather Mountain.
The "Balsam Groves" has aroused genial
comment from number of our gently nur-
tured clients, one of whom, Mr.. George II
Nell, tells us that within sight of Grand
father Mountain, North Carolina, is gen
eral store with the following sign:
Terms Strictly Cash.
To trust is to bust; to bust is Hell.
No trust, no bust, no He'll.
Another client says that at the time of
the Centennial, Philadelphia was the birth =
place of book no less unconsciously anus
| ing than the 'Balsam Groves" 1t was
called 1.-THE Maple Dell of TO- and our
| client sighs to see it again. Does any one
| know of copy?
Social Chat
The Rev. Robert Norwood is a keen ad =
mirer of the Gumps.
Roy Helton is at work on poem for the
| Dish.
Tomorrow being President Wilson's birth
| day, the Dish has sent him present, but
we doubt whether he will read it.
|
If the back page Beauty Corner can hold
out for about eighteen years longer we have
daughter who will knock them cold.
|
A. Edward Newton has collaborated with
| James Boswell in writing little book about
| the late Samuel johnson. The lucky pub
Usher of such a pair of sprightly writers is
| Mr.. r. B. Adam, of Buffalo.
SOCRATES