The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-10

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Why IL 1t when lady sportiveiy will uss .
To perfor.ts her husband. in exuberance Of
fun;
Or, with shady stranger to roadhouse go
To emerge daxed and bedrasgled as lady
well could be.
Or when wary waitress says thing pur-
ported cute.
Her action nearly every time will bear the
selfsame fruit
Defective-orbed observers laud her beauty to
the skies. =.
Men good for naught save 1urymen will dry
her fearful eyes,
The morbid crowd Of !oOkers-on all voice their
appreciation;
Her name though formerly obscure. is known
throughout the nation.
Then some loquacious manager with gush
will overflow
AND star the lurid lady in moving picture
show!
Though her efforts make US weary, though
she has no skill to please,
She Feaps a golden harvest and hef lie is
spent in ease.
But scientists, inventors, men who labor long
and strive
To help their fellow men-who've scarce
enough to keep aliveA
Die poor as any church mouse, butt of Jokes
and jibes and jeers-
OF when their worth is recognized they have
been dead for years.
The reason for the difference secret still
remains
And we don't care to have you say it is our
slack of brains! B. B. S.
BIB. S. is trying to find an answer to an
age old question which long ago should have
ceased to be question. When Eve had her
clandestine little affair with the W. k serpent,
which resulted in our first family being forced
to find another apartment, Adam, instead OF
sta liking off to engage bachelor quarters at
the Hotel Euphrates, patted her shoulder kissed
away her tears, pulled change of clothes
from a nearby tree and said: "Never mind
honey; I'll be the goat" :. Us men. it is gen.
orally conceded, are true sons Of Adam.
"Modern Appliances,l Well. Mebbe So.
From a letter from Mexico in the Peoria
| Starr.
One is surprised to find modern ap-
pliances introduced by Americans and
SO readily used such as clothing,
food.
"BRINDELL GIVEN TO 10 YEARS IN
BUILDING GRAFT" headlines the Chitribune
| Pshaw! We thought it was in Sing Sing.
Har! Har!
| (From The Argus, Burgess Corr
| Roy Morrow and Herman Laf
/ near Viola Thursday.
TODAY we have a feeling amounting al
most to a conviction that it's going to be up
tic US to finish the Ballad of Ali Admire. Wed
like to know that some contrib has labored
on tiff for no other reason than that he
would forever after have keener apprecia-
tior of any ballad he might read The fair
lColumbine, who shines in free verse, has an
opportunity for proving her mental agility by
completing the ballad. for nothing is farther
from free verse than a perfectly rimed ballad
~Piease Go Way and Let Ne Sleep"
| milan Correspondence.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gotobed of Tur-
| lock, Cal. arrived at Milan this morn
ing for visit at the home of Mr.. Goto-
beds sister, Mrs. William Dickson Mr.
and Mrs. Gotobed are very well known
to many Milan people and this is the
first visit from California in 10 years
THE time has come the Walrus said
Ito can this limerick stuff" The Carpenter
said nothing but Hand me pinch of snuff
The Walrus sighed and softly cried, Deal
me, don't be so rough" -. Not that W,
haven't any limericks on hand; We have. Blu
we're not sure whether they are worse thai
some we have printed or whether we hav,
merely lost interest temporarily in all linn
ericks. We have seriously considered sayin,
certain things in this colyum regarding linn
ericks and other rimes for some time but nov
we've decided not to do SO. Instead We shall
let Ted Robinson, Cleveland Plain Dealer col
yumist and versifier extraordinary, say i. TO
US. The following is culled from his colyun
OF year Tor two years. ago and. has beel
kicking around in our desk since:
A Journalists Journal.
April lS.-lt is hard, sometimes, to refrai
from pointing out their more egregious an
pathetic errors to correspondents; only tn
knowledge that such schoolmastering woul
be of no interest to other readers prevent
Al US. And yet this morning We have a Who'll
bundle Of things that we might use if eac
were not ds6gured by some blunder; an
the contributors are going to be peeved a
lack OF recognition.
For instance. here's an almost perfect
good one from our old friend Melampus; W
cannot use it because be rhymes Tor tries t
rhyme) "ain't flush" with paint brush
Paint lush would rhyme with "aint flush
Melampus, but not paint brush" Next come
a clever verse from Skinny Q. Tickle; thi
also is ruined by false rhymes-export, repol
and import. Thirdly arrives A. H. F. wit
, limerick; but it turns on that most ancief
and familiar Of themes, the queer pronur
citation Of the British name "Cholmondely." an
VIC cannot bear to exhume that wheex
Fourth in order shows up Anne Teek, VIII
clips a notice from paper regarding a Del
son charged with uttering false check Ann
Teek appears to find this use Of the wor
''uttering" funny: she should be more familis
with the language Of business. Filthy a,
pears A. Roy VISA who says he waited Il
three weeks before sending his joke. and
disguised that nobody else noticed and SCI
1t il the meantime. Many did. Roy, but it ha