The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-12
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of Enfervescence: and suppose further that
you found yourself before your typewriter with
big blank sheet of copy paper in it-and your
mind blank as the copy paper What would
You do?
Assuming the foregoing state Of affairs to
be fact and not fancy it follows, OF course.
that you must supply certain amount of ma
terial for the colyum; that you must, IN tact,
fill the colyum from top to bottom
How would you do it? We curious to
know We are So curious that >weu turn the
coIyum over to some ambitious contrib for one
day provided his Cor herr ambition is sturdy
enough to attack the job with determination
to complete it
boosted as a live organization. thought it
would be nice Cor something) to conduct
this Mound OF Mournfulness for day. So
far as we know they still think so-that It
WOULD be nice, We mean
FRIEND RIO. who guides the destinies of
Pillar to Post in the Chicago>Post, is ill. An
office associate batted out his colyum Friday
We don't know how sick Rig is, and proba bly,
we should be sorry for him; but, as a matter
Of fact, we almost envy him. Our real SYM
patty goes to the substitute colyumist He
needs it most
WELL, as the Babyionian laborers tried to
tell each other (but couldnt) this amt no way
tc build a tower.
PAPER-SHELL PECANS.
XVII
lifted from The PilIar.l
The quest of key of cider brought us to
his farm Meriden, New Hampshire. He
was not in, but we found his S0-year-old
spouse on hands and knees, scrubbing mag
mary spots from the kitchen floor. During
wheezy attacks with soap and brush she adj
mitted washing the woolens that day, and
"layin' up" a batch of mince meat.
Hubby came fn an hour later, putting at
his cob. Over glasses of excellent, sugar
hardened apple juice, we loafed through nego-
tiations for our keg. Midway old Zeke re-
moved his pipe, pointing with the stem down
at his laboring wife.
"S'pose you folks met Sal, didn't ye?" he
inquired. "Sals amt jest what ye'd call much
to look at, but she's been mighty useful"
PERSIPHAE.
JUST because Harvey Woodruff is good
natured and will stand for almost anything in
his column is no reason why a poet of the
caliber of Guy Lee should put over such rimes
as travail" and avail" -. Which reminds
us that b L. T. once printed some of our lines
wherein ''ingestion' served as a rime for
indigestion.
A Squat Ont of a Clear Sky, Mebbe?
[Clipped by Bugs from the Canton CMo) Post1
Earnest Trower and wife have a new
girl They have named her Aerial
Margaret.
II CAN'T think just what it is adds Bugs
but the proper caption for this is what they
say after the helper starts the propeller run
but we must admit we don't Does any bright
contrib know?
SOME Feat!
[F,rom the Sherrard Qll.) Bulletin.l
c. V. Funk took his sister, Miss
Annabelle Funk, TO Orion Saturday
morning, to take a train for Galesburg.
After she had waited for some time,
she learned that it would not be neces-
sary for her to go, she walked the
entire distance back to Sherrard. making
II miles in about two and half hours.
Miss Funk is guardian of the Camp Fire
girls Miss Mable Damp, a Camp Fire
girl, walked eight miles the day previous.
T e. r. calls attention to the fact that
Sam Resole recently was fined SIS on a charge
OF driving automobile by a car that had
been stopped to take on and discharge pas
sengers. 1t is T. E. RS bunch that Sam
should quit chauf1ng and stick to shoe
repairing
SERVICE.
Yet. who, looking backward DER his years.
Feels not his eyelids wet with grateful tears,
Permitted, weak and sinful as he was
To cheer and aid in some ennoblng cause
His fellow men?
II hs hath hidden the outcast, or let in
A ray of sunshine to a cell of sin
If he hath lent
Strength to the weak, and, in an hour Of need
Over the suffering. mindless of his creed
Or home, hath bent,
He hath not lived in vain, and while he gives
The praise to Him. in whom he moves and lives
With thankful heart;
He gazes backward, and with hope before
knowing that from his words he neyermore
Can henceforth part.