Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-29
THE CHAFF7NG DISH
feelings if he were behind prison bars. Thus

feelings if he were behind prison bars. Thus
Pete:
That dish of soup with nothing in,
Gives hunger more than nourshment
L tried the door to break within
But fell on floor in great torment
What is this for I'm sitting here?
My years are just one score and one
l was preachers son when l was free
But here now what have L become,
a living soul Of mystery.
|, TNHE next item is letter, dated April,
1919, from Carroll ii. Frey, inviting us
to go down with him to Walt Whtman's old
lOafng place at Laurel Springs
Unpublished poem by Ella Wheeler Will
COX, given us by Frank II. Taylor.
Recipe for mustard plaster given us by
medical friend two years ago when we
thought We were dying We have saved the
formula ever since as Il memorandum to get
even with that Doctor We still carry on
our bosom the ccatrice (or is it the cocka
trice?) caused by that fiery plaster.
Pamphlet sent us, we don know why, by
the Corrective Eating Society, called ''Why
Some Foods Explode in the Stomach
Memorandum to the word mdnSuetude
in the Dish some day, as an attempt to i'm
press our clients
Memorandum to keep on roasting Orison
SWEET Marden and George Creel,
Notes for an essay on Keeping Children
Covered at Night.
MICE photograph of an Irish terrier sent
~ us by lady in Plattsburgh n. Y,
saying that she is sure we have a dog and
that her pet, '"Ierence Mulvaney, the
brightest. trucst terrier that ever lived"
would enjoy exchanging letters with him
bnf oh SC
arc one of the few who feel about dogs as
she does.
Letter from lady in Doylestown saying
the Dish excrtS such a helpful moral influ-
cnce on her that she regrets we did not enter
the church, and asserts that we would have
been "a very comfortable preacher
Letter from man in Wilmington bawling
us out for makiag fun of religion
Letter from Il man in New York offering
us job as headmaster of a school for girls.
! Letter from our high spirited contrib,
! Milton Harvey, saying 81 have gathered
! that my poems do not impress yOu.' This
! is not the case, Milton; but they have got
! so far down in the pile that it will take
some dredging to reach them.
| MEMORANDUM to write to Bill McDer-
1Fl mid, of the Mcnnen Co., to thank him
! for that bottle of muscatel he opened round
at Verandah's. Feel that we ought to cul-
! tivatc his acquaintance.
! Ten unanswered letters from Jim Shields,
! all very witty and delightful.
| Memorandum not to eat so many dough
| NUTS.
Memorandum TO learn at least one stanza
! of some famous poem by heart so that we
can make Il better impression on strangers.
Twelve Eecms dealing with the woes of
! ireland.
Poem ficm j. Saccfutti. the barber at
! Fifth and SAMSON, offering among other
( Establishments to keep us "heathy, fair and
! fat
| Memorandum to write something that will
/ make us really respected as a serious thinker
Letter from a young lady in New York
taking issue with StevcnsOn's remark about
women not being good companions on a
walking tour. This damsel says
TO me, a woman is the ideal companion
| for a walking trip. | can talk more easily
| with another woman and can get more out
! OF myself with her than with a man Don't
! YOU think that it's more question of not
| mixing the sexes in walking trip than of
| outright damnng woman by saying that
she would not be a good companion on a
walking trip?
Memorandum not to forget anything.
SOCRATES.
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