Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-17
Business Science Club Votes
Copeted Honor to James
F. anderson, q Retired
Merchant
analysis of Ballots Ans,cers
Many Questions That Are
Being Constantly asked
Us by the Fans

cree Club at tho Hotel Adelpiiia on
Friday.
The prize to be announced tomorrow
Is hetng voted on by q jury Of commits
stoned and chief petty officers nj the
naval recruiting station, 1915 Arch
street.
Well. we sure had grent time. up
at the luncheon Of the Business Science
Club in the Hotel Adelphia on Friday.
And the people who attended the
luncheon seemed to enjoy it, too. Ordi-
narily the club gathers about fifty mem
bers at these affairS, but last Friday 154
attended.
OF course, DR.. Hobart Hare, the
speaker, may have been the attraction.
But he will forgive Us II we think that
a good many Of them came because they
had been informed that all who were
present would be given chance to
vote for the winning line in one Of these
limerick contests.
People seem to like to get the Inside
dope" on this lim'rickin' game that
everybody is talking about
We had picked out twalve good last
lines and had them printed on ballots,
with voting slip at the bottom to be
torn off and deposited in the ballot
boxes. Each man or woman found one
of these ballots on his or snsr plate. and,
all during the luncheon, we could see
people actually paying more attention
to the limericks than TO the food.
"a IN n
ballots, II. Evert Kendig, the presi-
dent. asked us to get up and tell 'em
something about lin 'ricks. But we
knew that they didn't want TO hear
much-tbey just wanted to see what
kind of q lookin' guy 1t took to hold
down a job like this. So, after we
had exhibited ourselves and they had
laughed enough. we took up the ballots
and Doctor Kendig appointed three tel
Iers and the votes were counted, while
Doctor Hare told EN- lot of the
reasons why Mr.. Volstead should never
be President Of these United States.
These reasons proved quite as popu-
lar as the lin ricks, except that the
lin ricks are funny and there's no joke
in this Volstead business. :.
When the tellers came back the result
OF the vote was announced, though, OF
course. the name of the winner was
James r. Anderson, Milford. Del,
retired merchant.
THE completed Inn trick, with Mr.. An
derson's last line is
A really romantic young thing -
Thought she'd win her young man II
she'd sing.
She went up to high Il,
But he shouted, ooh, Gee.
F, HNnQags
here's the ring.
This time we picked out twelve lines
as being worthy of a place on the bal
lot. Mr.. Anderson's was No. IL. The
others were
No. If you sing for George. God
save the king! David w. Kramer,
112S North Union street.
No. 2-If she sings, she'll be single,
by jin.! Mary e. Whelan, 4441
Greene street, Germantown.
No. 3--She'll barcarolle head on by
spring.-W. II. Rogers, Taylor Hos
pital. Ridley Park.
No. 4--F1ats so high may be solo by
spring.-Charles II. Baumann, 1222
No. 5-Thnt note isn't due until
spring. - John ]. Mcguire, Villanova
College.
No. s-She's fishing In G tsea) for
her .ring.-F. NJ. Sperlin, 226 Jackson
street, Hartman, Pa.
No. 7-E's (ease) of and b minor
(be mine or no ring.--L. l.. Evans,
312 North Broad street.
No. s-As q huckster, you'd be the
real thing.--Lillian Allen. s35 South
Fifty seventh street.
No. 8-I swore of on high .bawis In
spring. s. G. Yocum, Swarth-
more avenue and Chester road, Ridley
Park.
No. 1O-Then the man" In ro man.
tic took wing.-H. X. Nennig, care
Easton Truck Co, Easton, Pa.
No. fc - You're a sharp one: Il
natural. Of thing.--H. f. Wills. Room
III, 40 North Broad street.
How the Vote Stood
On the counting of the ballots, the
votes stood as follows:
No. l, .; No. 2, IL; No. 3, 81; No.
4, o; No. 3, l; No. 9, II; No. :, II;
No $. No. 0, 8; No. 10, :; No. II,
80 No. 10. IS.
Here We have very good indication
of the popular taste in limeriCks. One
hundred and fifty three intelligent people
cast their ballots in this contest. 1t is
fair to assume that they represented
the average of the population in their
sense Of humor, their response 10 rhythm
and their opinions OF what constitutes
a good last line.
Result Is Worth Studying
The result is recommended to those
numerous contestants who are so fond
of writing to us to tell us that their
| own lines were much better than the
one1 that won the prizes.
The only test Of good limerick is its
popularity. Some of the most famous
| iimericks in the world, violate all the
rules that our correspondents quote to
us but the fact that these limericks have
lived in the hearts of the people for 90
many years has proved that. in linn
pricks, the ordinary rules OF serious
verse writing must give way before the
prime essential of making n striking and
pleasing ending.
A limerick that you will find in every
standard collection and that il known
10 every real fan is.
There was an old man of st. Bees
Who was stung on the arm by n wasp
When asked, Does It hurt?"
He replied, mo. it doesn't,
But thought all the while twas a
hornet.
Now, there's limerick without n
single rhyme. 1t would take a bold
man to attempt such thing nowadays,
vet In this one there is something 50 uu
lcSpccte,l-its very disregard of all rules
is so delightfully."- silly--that limerickers
all over the world have loved il for
many years. And, as we've said, that
is the real test.
Probably no limerick is more famous
than the one about the young lady and
the tiger. We speak of IL here 10 illus
trate this disregard Of strict rules.
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