Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-09
EtVLFE,S PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR ---
.~..1 HUSBAND rs, 500 LLN,RICK PRIZE
Mrs. Whitney Sent in Last
Line and Signed His
Name WhiIe He Was
Atcay on Business Trip

Jury for Lim'rick About
Belle and Her Ice Skates
Today's award IN the iimpin' lim'rick
contest was made by the All. Philsdel.
phia girls ice hockey team. a photo
graph Of them Is printed on the back
page. ",.- .-.
Tomorrow's award was made BY q
Jury Of the employees OF the Pennsylva'
MIA Knitting Mills, Sixteenth and Cal.
lowhill streets. Watch Tor It. .. .
Monday night was certainly q great
night for the old Limpin' Linn rick edi-
tor, fans. Gee. II we we're only thirty
years younger, how wonderful this job
Of ours would be!
We went out to the Ice Palace 20
meet the members Of the Ah-Philadel-
phia girls ice hockey team, who had
agreed to act as jury to decide the
winner Of Limerick No. As. We had
been out there the previous Monday
night to see these same girls play against
New York and trim the Gothamites
| and we thought then that. even at q
distance and in their uniforms, they
sure looked attractive enough to Justify
the big crowd that turned out to cheer
them.
And now that we've met 'em face TO
face and all dressed up, we're right here
TO say that we'll cheer EN- any time
they want to be cheered. You fans can
lima CINE what hit they made with US
when we tell you that we stayed out
there with them until long after U
o'clock at night and didn't yawn ence,
ia spite OF the fact that it was after
our usual bedtime. r.,
Made rs feel quite like reg lar tei-
low once more.
Well. when we counted the ballots
we found that the winning line was
signed BY a man who lives out IN VAR ,
berth. Investigation yesterday disclosed
that It was the winners wife who
really wrote the line and sent 1t In, as
she had several others, in her. husband 8
name, hoping that she would thus give
him a pleasant little surprise.
Dom. you wish some one would sur :
prise you that wayf
The winning line was signed:
II. V. whitney.
, $40 Essex avenue,
Narbtrth. Pa.
The im'rick, as completed by Mrs
! Whitney In her husbands name. is:
! LIMERICK NO. IS
e When Belle first ncnt out on the icc
ne, skates didn't seem bu nice;
4 One circied creation,
One tried drtntion---
D N p.u.,. ..o,v,s'' were not "safety's ''de
vice.
. Mr.. Whitney's lim'rick was No.
on the ballot. The other lines We're:
y III. 1. Try o nice fellows arm,
oT advice. p. b. Rowland, 2o5o Yves
~ No .. Learn skating BY male. m
adyiee. Hervsy c. Keim, 2o2 Dude
q avenue, Narterth. Pa:
No. q. Skates couldn't keep Belle o.
tho ice. Percy Henderson, 5000 Mort
=. s No. S. Yet Bellies a good skate o
ic ,,. r., d. r. Mayer, Forty -sevent
!. and Baltimore avenue. A.
l. No a. 'Tis feat to fit feet for I'll
!. Ire. Charles Miller. 142 Harrison ave
nue., Gienside, Pa.
it No. 7. Gyration, prostration, cTacke
= Ice. Philip b. Wagner, lao North hroa
e, street.
I. 'aoIHL V
NJ sIHL YNFI LSnf UaAOO1 ah
90 go Edward Hastings, 1910 Washinst'
tn A's No .. "what'n do" land Al
- see" I" said the ice. Charles l.; Doremu
cd 90 Crosby street. Chester, ps; =,
ra v No. iO-Just a slip Of gtrl on q
&c yce William r. Graupner, DID Sou
M Sixteenth street.
.or The winning line received six OF :
vi "a, votes, while line No. 9, by NJ
= Ke,m, and line No. 10, by Mr.. Grau
ner. received two votes eech.
The members of the jury and th'
n rositions on the hockey team foiiow
v Miss Margaretta Sharpiess' eap''
md rover.
'e- Miss Vain Richards, wing.
Mrs. John Gilmore, center
Miss Psnsy Scott. wing.
Miss Jean de Russo, wing.
y Mr,, Walton Clark, defense.
y. Miss Elizabeth Frazier. defense.
NJ, NJ, Siiss Marion Savidge, goal:
rS' Mics Caroline Valentine, defense.
,oa Mics Florence Clothier, defense
nrS Now. w'atcha know about that
rs" lrct fapsf Mrs. Whitney, who IL :,
ov. Hite Of the man who received the 81
Le- suerded today for the best hne
az az Ti,oirick No. As, certainly wishes u
IN .Se hsd signed her own name 70
yeu Tne she sent in for this Hm'rick inst'
~. of that Of her husband. =,
uIe IIere's how II all happened. ana u
ORC vou can each decide for. yourseiveess
yon don't think that while Mrs. VT