New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
The Coming 7ower

ne NOIlHHly 1 OUcT
A NEW YORK LAD
When l was three-and-twenty,
I read that famous lay
Which says, "Give crowns and
guineas
But not your heart away"
had nor crowns nor guineas,
But, caught by Cupid's dart
II was but three-and-twenty),
/ gave away my heart.
And now I'm four-and-twenty
Again I read that song
And O! laugh and chuckle
To see how it is wrong
still have naught of guineas--
But wealth is all lack:
For now I'm four-and-twenty,
find my heart is back!
Speaking of international movements
as most Of us are these days, our
favorite is the shimmy, which has al
ready reached Russia, where, accept it
from the Globe-which, incidentally we
refuse to do-"Trotzky Totters."
1t is bad enough to be swiping the
Boss's space without intrudink upon
the provinces ruled over by Professor
Broun. But we should like to write an
article for Haywood some time on the
influence Of a play on its audience
Take "John Ferguson" for instance
The night we saw it there was singu-
larly unintelligent group present, which
insisted upon accepting Jimmy Cesare,
the coward, as a comical figure, when,
of course, he is essentially a tragic one.
Every time the group laughed in the
wrong place sane desire arose in US
to kill the offenders. But the same force
that stopped Jimmy from numbering
his oppressor held US bound in our
seat. To-day, we are comparatively
free man, whereas we should long ago
have had q reserved seat In the electric
chair.
man is growing old, it strikes US,
when he goes back to his campus and
watches the sophs hazing the freshmen
and realizes with somewhat sickening
sensation that only FIVE years ago he
thought that the pinnacle of pleasure.
Reverting for moment to the shim-
my, are we right in referring to 1t as
one Of the chief topics of conversation e?
Variety, the ". k. weekly, should be
included among Those Who Laugh in the
Wrong Place: it refers to "Declassee"
as a comedy success"
A primrose by rivers brim, we fear.
is beginning to be only that to US; and
our heart doesn't vault as we'll as it
used to on perceiving q rainbow; but
we don't ever expect to get 80 old that
we shan't thrill to winning double in
the ninth, Kipling's Song of the Ban
jo," the memory Of Jimmy O'Neale, and
the invisible ha)o that hovers around
the girl who is eighteen and whose mind
IL as wonderful as her own lovely self
The next best thing to being in q good
fight is to watch, from the compare
tive safety Of the sidelines, one you
have started. Which reminds us that,
according to "The American Language"
by II. l.. Mencken, "the inferior man,
in America, as elsewhere, remains an
inferior man despite the hard effort to
improve him, and his thoughts seldom
If ever rise above the most elemental
concerns. What lies above not only does
not interest him, it actually exctes his
derision and he has coined a unique
word, highbroW, to express his view of
it." 1t was Will Irwin, unless our
memory also is beginning to fail US,
who coined the word.
When we were seventeen, twenty-four
looked old to us: and it Is. But the
tragedy is not as poignant as a similar
happening must be to the other sex.
We should like to see Mr.. Briggs COL
laborate in a cartoon with Old Doc
Freud, the subject being. "Wonder
What a Twenty-four-Year-O Girl
Thinks About ?"
THE ANSWER
Horace: Book /, Ode 25
''Parc1us iunctds quatiunt fenestras"--