New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
The Coming 7ower
THE POETS WIFE

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spend my life
Bakin' with green wood / chop myself,
An lynn awake tiggcrin' how to buy
While Schiller sets around the kitchen.
Playin' tunes on his fiddle,
Writin' rhymes for the village paper,
Dreamin' over colored pictures or
Florida orange groves,
An follcrin' me when I'm gettin' meals
From the cellar to the pantry,
Elocutn' Lord Byron's poems from
book
This is how it happened:
When l was keepin' house for my folks
An hoardin Melissa Atkins, the school
teacher,
I was goin' to be married, come spring,
To Lemuel jenkins, a good provider.
AM we'll fixed. He had near twenty
thousand
Meliss' was goin' on ffty-ninc; because
she couldn't
Git man for herself,
1t poisoned her to see Lem an me
settin' up nights,
An goin' for moonlt sleighrides.
l knew she was spiteful, but I didn't
think
She'd strike out like an adder!
What with housework an courtin'
I'd had a trim winter, an one April
day,
When robins was chirpin' an the snow
was meltin',
| saw a novel in Ricks's drug store.
Thinks /: "Next weeks housecleanin'.
I'l let the upstairs sweepin' 60 a spell
An rest an read" l bought the book
"a nice story
By Mrs. L. D. f. N. Southworth, all
about man an woman
That got wrecked on a desert isle.
This give Meliss' her chance. When
from her room above
She heard LENS voice an mine in the
parlor,
She called: 81 smell smoke! Some
In the attic!' We rushed upstairs an
looked around,
There want no fire; but Lem gazed
slow
From the novel in my hand to rolls of
Under the furniture. The beds want
made.
On dresser was comb with hair in it.
That fixed Lem. He told me fiat
That l wouldn't make him good wife.
An when l tried
To explain he kept hollerin': "What
I've seen, I've seen!"
That night when Schiller come to choir
practice
made up to him. was too broke up
To look ahead. Sometimes | dream at
night
That have grabbed Melissa Atkins
| BY her lean, Strlngy neck an choked
her
Till she was dead
ALICE MARY KIMBALL.
"No better weapon can be given them
than the crown Of martyrdom," says
Mr.. Guthries Union League Club state
ment about the five Socialist Assem-
bly, members. No better leaf has been
woven into such crown, to our
bigotcd way of thinking, than Mr..
Guthrie's utterances.
eve must suffer and tolerate and
conciliatc and appease these Socialists"
Mr.. Guthrie's report reads. AS to ap-
peasing we are uncertain; but suffer
ance, toleration, and even conciliation
arc not such un- American qualities as
many who celebrated Lncoln's Birth
day might imagine
Sometimes we think the business
world is hardly more efficient than the
literary ether On February we re-
ceived a bill dated February !. On
February we mailed payment. On
February 20 we got a receipt dated
February H.
And Old Ed Hungerford, writer on
business matters, writes "Hcre are two
AIR: "CASEY JONES"
The railroad bill III help the N. Y. C.,
The Burlington, the Reading, and the
Santa Fc.
Railroad Bill, mounted to the cabin,
Railroad Bill, with his orders in his
hand
Railroad Bill, mounted to the cabin,
Sent all the stocks to the Promised
Land.
Speaking again OF old songs, as we
were yesterday, a Tower contrib wrote
one Of the oldest we ever heard He
- ~AA' OoAHUCA uAuIuIu cCht ana Cno
song ended "If you love me, darling,
tell me with your eyes"
The price Of baseball tickets has ad-
vanced, but thus far the nine inning
game is intact. Why the players
haven't struck for a five-inning, or
lfty-fivc minute day, we can't imagine.
There will be "several," "many," "a
big proportion of 55-cent seats. but
why the esteemed management doesn't
tell the public how many such seats
there will be is one of the reasons old
gentlemen lose interest in the game.
1t Never Rains but 1t Pours
[From the Syracuse HERALD
Miss Dorothy Cooney gave a Jelly shower
on Tuesday afternoon.
AS somebody has said, you make as
many impressions as there are people
to be impressed. When doctor looks
at us he thinks, evidently, that our in
come is at least $1,000 a day. And
yesterday morning, when we asked the
man at our bank for an income tax