The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-17

If everybody knew to the full
Their weaknesses and shortcomings,
AS you do:
If we all realized our limitations.
AS you realize yours,
And beheld our true smallness and incom-
'Twould be a mighty different world,
Wouldn't it?
Henry
YOU are the wise man! 49,.
Because you, though being an idiot,
Know it! JAY G. SIGMUND.
TODAY (we're writing this Saturday, were
in our usual weekend mental slump. The
sound of the whistle from the grid board plat
form distracts our attention from the business
ia hand. How to reach the end of the colyum?
That is the question. The best bet is to break
into
MOURNFUL METERS.
do not feel the well known cosmic urge
Today am a mental sloth, doggone it.
Although I'm not insane l feel I'm verg-
Ing on it
/ cannot see the sunshine through the murk
OF pessimistic clouds that now confound me;
Undone am l by gobs of gloom now Turk
Ing round me.
feel lykelle-in fact 1 think I'm ill
And for docs prescription l am pining.
Who said in ev'ry cloud there is a sill
Yer lining!
Perhaps you do not like to read this rot?
Perhaps you disapprove my witless batting?
Well, stead of brains my head is full of cot
Ton batting.
To the day is anything but fair,
I'm overcome with sadness, on the level;
No happiness is mine-I'm just a care
Worn devil
think I'd better take some deadly drug,
Or go and end my troubles in the river .
sun don't know perhaps have a slug
Gish liver.
A CHICAGO woman asked for divorce
because every time her husband got intoxicated
ne turned ner over his knee and spanked her
She might have settled the matter out of court
by taking tip from Pecks Bad Boy
Wouldn't This Give You a Wrench!
IFTom the Monmouth QllD Atlas.l
ri. Madison. IA marriage appro-
pirate to the mechanical age of the pres
ent day world was solemnized here when
William Mutt and Blanche Bolt were
joined in wedlOck. Mr. Mutt has been
employed at Mendon, Ill, but his wife
Miss Bolt, was from Lima, Ill. Both
will return to Mendon. The couple fiv-
vered to Fort Madison for the wedding
The car carried plenty OF repair sup
plies, only washers being needed in
case of breakdown
"DUNNING Asylum Inmates Become Par
ents of Baby."-Argus headline
Well, in such case perhaps it was best
to be specific.
THE SHOPPING REPORTER
Sir Every once in awhile Solomon Pifle |
the shopping reporter, asks five persons picked
at random, question
Today's Question
What is your opinion of your mother-in-l law !
Answers.
1-Mr. Meek s Moses, home girl. "111 ask
my wife But l guess she is the dearest and
sweetest woman in the world"
DIRTY Sparkplug, garage employe and |
M M muliIdto[' ';;!!**" Mote: !
we can't print that style of language)
j" aIi-Eye McGooslin, prizefghter: Are
yez thryln t kid me? Dom vez, III sthand fer
no klddln! II yere tn level I'll inst cav
I've met some tn best scrappers incJrdin,
Bull-Neck Rafferty,, an DEBATED thin aisiIv IT |
hght wild no naygurs-niver have an niver
Will She an meself met wan time civin,
her due credit, I'll say 1 took tn count in tn+
life." S'iappln aV me
4-saiubrious Grippe. knight of the grip and
victim OF indigestion: "I spend go LITTLE +;rDo
at home with my own wife / see LITTLE Of ~
am away most of the veelN
al nome only Saturdays and SUNDAYS. We qet /
long very nicely except on those days ii
expect successful year, as it has been said
1871 VIII reward fighters. Our conversational
are quite lively usually ending in recountine
FAMILY pedigrees and family history"
5-Rev. 1. Will Remark: The lord givetb I
name Of the lord" " '"e
A NUMBER of persons living u;thor. .A
radius of our revered parent sheets cfrcnIa
ton are discovering The Argus Letters ad- l.
dressed Slnny Koras, The Tombstone land
on our desk with great frequency.
Count that day lost. whose sunset hovers nor
Which brings no missive marked for Rfnnv
Koras. " DihnS
TOO MUCH TALCJJM II
Dear Mac: This sign has appeared in t3ocb,
I IGelaho Tor years: Central Shaving PaIor l.
tease give 1t your attention. E. VI
LINES TO FRIEND BILL.
'"no usually Puts This Cofyum in Tyne Sans !
!. Errors.) II
now Bill, You know I'm fond of voo II
a. . ~ yoo my thoughts are never CORY
9uI tother day you made me bIue
When you set store" instead of -sto-v-
know you play q darn good game
and yet, BIZ. really I must own
feeling tord you, SIR Of shame
Wnen You set Zone instead of ~sz,,.s
AS the railroad Brotherhood chorus chants q
T. rus chants g
sTRIKEI for The wages You dest,s,- {