Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
To His Brown-Eyed Mistress

10 HIS Brown-Eyed mistress
Who Rallied Him for PraiSing Blue Eyes in
His Verses
TF SOMETIMES, in a random phrase
l. (For variation in my ditty),
l chance blue eyes, or gray, to praise
And seem to intimate them pretty
TT IS because l do not dare
l. With too unmixed reiteration
To sing the browner eyes and hair
That are my true intoxication
TNOW, then, that I consider brown
1A For ladies' eyes, the only color;
And deem all other orbs in town
Compared to yours, opaquel, duller.
T PRAY, perpend, my dearest dear;
4 While blue-e eyed maids the praise were
drinking
How insubstantial was their cheer
1t was of yours that was thinking
II seems TO us perfectly natural and cred
table that the retiring councilmen should be
eager TO take their mahogany desks with
them Those desks, undoubtedly, are asso-
ciated in their minds with the pleasantest
and easiest job any of them ever had; more
over, like our own cherished roltop, they
are probably crammed and pigeoned with all
sorts of neglected correspondence which they
intend, some day, in the happy leisure of
their old age, to answer.
Certainly, to speak for ourself, we would
rather push the desk home on tarrow than
have to answer all the letters IN IL.
One of the problems that worries the
architect of the projected new building for
This newspaper is what to do about our desk.
We understand that, after one look at 1t,
he decided that the only safe way to proceed
would be to jack up the pile of unanswered
letters and then erect new building around
them.
If General Pershing goes on eating fried
dried apple pie, the question of his candidacy
for the presidency will soon be decided.
It is our opinion that the really sagacious
man Is the one who saves until ftcr the
festival some of those Don't Open Until
Christmas" seals. He saves them, of course,
to put on the presents he hastily mails, the
morning after Christmas, to the people he
inadvertently forgot
And the really base minded man is the
one who reckons up, on sheet of paper,
the number of people he forgot who sent
cards to him, and compares 1t with the numSl
ber he sent to those VINO sent MIN nothlng,
and concludes that he stands about even.
Many of the thoroughly well meaning
schemes of social regeneration puzzle us
greatly; but we profess ourself even more
than usual nonplussed by a broadside from
Xenia, Illinois. which has just reached us.
In this it is said, 1--WE hold that the orderly
evolution of society can be secured only by
the abolition of interest"
Testing that doctrine by applying it to a
particular case, ourself, we take the liberty
of observing that nowhere has interest been
more substantially abolished than in our own
case At the moment we are somewhat
soied, to the pure vision of the Xena
thinker, by having battened on the incon-
siderable interest of few Liberty Bonds I;
but there was time when for several years
we never got near enough any interest even
TO know what it looked like. And we do
not remember that this condition made us
any more gay, innocent or altruistic at heart
The Nena enthusiast complains that TN
terest has thrown man on the scrap heap, -
but we think he is too optimistic.
Dove Dulcet, who is a simple minded
thinker, has confded to us that he believes
the Deity to be a kind of publisher who has
issued the universe in the form of galley
proofs We are now in the stage of cor
recting the misprints, Dove AYERS; and he