Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-07

helm Collins store. 1907 Chestnut
street. 4 photograph of the jury will
be- found on the hack page.
The award tO be announced tomorrow
Is being made by jury of girls from
the east and chorus Of the light opera
company formed among the cmploycs
Of tho Philadelphia Electric Co.. south
west cOrncr Tenth and Chestnut streets.
Watch for their verdict and photograph.
We've got TO cut out this business oi
trying 10 describe our impressions OF
these girl iurics whN are deciding the
winners Of tho limrin' limricks. First
thing We know. somr fan II accuse Us
Of being imprcsSionablc and we'll have
no defense.
It's got 80 We don't dare walk mp
Chestnut street any more. We start M
from the office and when We get To
Tenth street We feel an Irresistible IN.
PULSE TO turn In TO the Philad"lphie
Electric huilding Just for the Joy oi
ono moro glimpse of 'Cm.
We call upon OH" sturdy ana IN
compromising manhood and conquer
that impulse. but as we near Jwcli;G
street Keeping our CvCs strictly avcrt"d
from the Darlington store, we feel "ur
selves weaken and We gaze longinglN
down toward the :. s. White Go. $
plHcC
rhcr lust as we're overcoming that
vCnknreS wc glance across at the tN-
prnhrim Collins store and right thcr"
We lose out.
Human nature cant stand too murh.
And even limerick editor feels human
with these iuricS about him.
NO: safest thing for us to d" now -
tn take n trolley car home, open up
tho old music box and put on Al J"I-
sons favoritc record. "Ah'm moo -trnI--
Strickly MOO Tral.
If vou fans could have been thCr"
with us when We gathered that h"NN
Of girlS from the different departments
of the Opumhcim. Collins Go. store. at
1907 Chestnut street. You would uh-
dcrStnnd what suucrman II requires
to keep his mind strictly on business
under such circumstances.
We simply had t. grit what t"'lh we
have left and brush back the thin irinG'
Of hair that remains &c us ana get do"h
to work.
The business in hand was the award
ing of tho prize for the best last lh'
to Timpin I.im'rick No. II.
And for the first time the verdict was
unanimous on tho very first ballot. Who
saws women jurics will never agree!
Tho winner who received such an
overwhelming verdict was:
David Newmark,
1880 West Giradc avenue.
Teacher. Rudolph S. Walton School.
The limerick. including the last line
! hv which Mr.. Ncwmnrk received the
~ follows
Said poIicCman O'FIynn. "Thdt'S tip
top;
Tomorrow OUr pOrCrtU u SIOP'
Fire dOiIGrS ddV
From n0ir on is Our pGV;
Norp the VS. uiH bring E'S to the
cop.
You'll find n photograph of this
unanimous jury on the back page Lose
who are in the pictNIr" are:
Florence Ncufcld, 1909 North hudson
street, secretary.
Myrtle Wolfe. West CnllingSwood,
misses department.
Anna Munroc. 1913 PnScholl avenue,
waist department.
Mae FurlOng, 4G2S Walnut street,
| advertising.
Irma Clogg. $50 East Martin street,
| ROXbOrOugh, gowns.
.yuanita stewart, 1910 North Fiji
tccnth street. coat department.
Dorothy IIamncll, GlIJ Nassau road,
Overhrook, office.
KOrah {. DOnnclly, @O9 South fiftN-
! third street, suits.
4 Kathryn Mooney, l24O Cabot street.
pCtticOatS.
Helen Nusbaum, 1899 North Park
avenue. underwear.
There were eleven last lines submit
/ tcd to these young women rullcd aS the
best from all that were received. The
! other ten werc:
Sow yOu'Il sec the bull run with
hop Ray $. Bodinr, 2'@- North
| Twenty fourth street.
But I'll still have to pinch said
the cop-NIrs. Albert Parker, 1913
! North Park avenue.
Ware could we get Moore rs "a c0p?-
Mrs \. II. Bailey, Twenty first
street, Pussyunk avenue and Wolf
street.
Since more coppcrs Moore Coppcd for
tbn ron -IInrrirtfr Nelson Mri~.. 49,
Dnricn street.
Sow AT last vs. in "Nc>t" for the
cop-K. Andrew. 3@l West Seymour
street. Germantown.
That's arrest "a rrNt) from the pinch
10 the Cop-E K. johnson, iiio Norti
Fifteenth street,
"Nnd I'm working for Moore" salt
the cop-.Jos"ph Bra~,ilI, ~ Atlantic
street. Gloucc~t"r city.
.ind cop can have Moore call hin
"Pop".- r. Il. Dorsey, io5I ,iarin!
Nr,~,h byrs. ain't yrX nrOrl of NcI