Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
Er-SerUice Man Wins
SeUenth Limerick


Continued from rase One
his own Christmas troubles. let's all
make the best of ours and get busy on
more limping limericks and see IL we
can fatten up the old pocketbook BY
stuttng winning last line in It..
Maybe you think today will be
hoodoo. The limerick. you will notice,
Is No. IL. But somebody is going to
knock the spots out of that old super
sttion.
About Today's Winner
We are glad to see the prize go to-
day 10 an X-service man who did his
bit over there in the recent muss.
Mr.. GDpin went across with the
Fifty second Pioneers and saw service
in the Meuse- Argonne parties until
after the armistice. Then he was
transferred to the 2S6th NJ. P.'s-nover
mind fellows; it's all over now, so forget
it--and was with the army of occupa-
ton in Germany.
lie was on the other side just about
year and was discharged in August,
1919.
The winner is the second Penn Char.
ter School graduate to take one of these
limerick prizes Have they got course
in limerickitis there? George Rhawn.
who won in the third contest. imbibed
his talent for humor in the same classic
halls.
Mr.. Gilpin graduated from there in
1908 and then took the arts and science
course nt the University of Pennsyl-
vania, where he completed his limerick
education in 1913.
He took up newspaper work on the
FvcninG Bulletin. being a member Of
their rcpertorial staff until he went into
the army and he Joined them again
when he reganed his freedom-if a
reporter can bc said to have any such
thing.
Two months ago Mr.. Gilpin secured
a leave Of absence and went 10 the
seashOrc. Maybe the prize he has won
will extend his leave.
He Is twenty nine years old and is n
member of the well known Gilpin fam
lily. of this city. Charles Cilpin. 3D.
who writes all the funny lbrcttoS for
the Mask and Wig shows, is his cousin.
80 the talent for jingfng verse must
run in the family.
Can't Help Writin' En-
1t locks as though you fans simply
cant help writin' 'em. We get jinglcs
hv every mail, and some Of them ar"
mighty good too. Here's what Morris
Rosonzweig, Of 233 Girard avenue,
thinks of the first completed limerick
The prize. winning line was real funny /;
Charles spotted hundred in money.
Now where will our JekylI-
Hyde oodlcs of shekel
We'll won with line good and punny'
Martha T.. Hetherington. Of 32lO
Chestnut street, says Mr.. Charles de-
served the hundred dollars for:
"A man away up in Semitic.
Not to mention his mind arcthmctic,
Can kill with stroke
T's little wee folk
Who only know things alphNb"tic.
c, r. Burrows, of 5al5 Chester ave To
nuc. says il we forgive him for the
three ne sends in he'll promise never to
do it again. The three are
When YOU launched this limerick race
You ser tremendous fast pace.
But tho thought you advance
That all have the same chance
/ Is not. strictly speaklny, the case.
For thcy who mostly write lingIcs
| In teams and also IL singles,
Have advantage Of those
Who can only write prose
Among whom the writer mingleS.
You will notice that last line limp'
Prcausn 7 am ono " tho imps
Who don't know enough
To write better stongh;
Ir fact, quite 0utslmping the simpS