The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-26

Christs loving spirit hovers DER
Thy every step from day to day
To light full well the longest way;
| And as the years speed on and on
Sometime will come that radiant dawn
To light anew the Joy of living,
The Christmastide Of love in giving.
CACTUS.
FRISCO pie makers were allowed 100 gal
Ions of brandy each to put pep" in their pies
If the movie director will use that kind O
pastry he won't have any difficulty finding tar
gets for Mr.. chaplin's unerring aim
The Fault Lies in Too Frequent Use of as.
[Ciipped from The Argus Quiz by Solomon
@. Why is there b in the word debt?
A The word debt is derived from
middle English Diet, dette, and from old
French dette. In effort to make the
English spelling suggest more directly
the original Latin debita the b was in
] serted. The inserted in island for
the same reason, and 1 in fault al
! though in the latter case it came in time
| to be sounded.
SOLOMON declares the 81 in fault" is es-
sential in spelling that word correctly, being
as much in evidence "as is the kick one gets in
drinking sweet milk.
AGAIN we are saved from our own asinity
by timely contribution; one from the TYNE.
writer of most Industrious contrib. Solo
mon himself.
WINTERS HERE.
The Mighty Big League swatters have put
| their bats away;
The football heroes (whove survived4 will
| play some future day;
The balmy summer zephyr has changed to a
| chilly breeze;
We skip and slip and hop along and sbiver
and half freeze;
We meet Tom and Dick and Harry. coughing
sneezing as they go,
From the club to little beddo" wadinp
through the siush and snow;
| prick hide
we indulge in luscious scratching and foreare
our lofty pride.
Our much abused proboscis gets red and VOW
sore, ~ 'e'S
Our chiblains swell the chorus: if is w;,t.-
Time Once More,
We face our coal and gas hills with . oo..
near Sublime eo
And we Lie and Say, Next winter we Will,
seek milder cline
Iife's sea is wild and stormy. bpt w..
stay afoat- gu" anu
III the me- b riHI Hot Stove Hero jumps in
SOLOMON PIFFLE.
AGAIN we must pin the croix de coIvrr,
T r%iLn palms, upon the breast of Solomon
tAere Is no challenge he will not accent The
True, the typewriter was sadly ont NJ Liz L.,
ment. the type needed cleaning and snaofn
wa. mas iar from perfect: but Solomon has proved
ehat ne loves US. Hail to the kink.
4 HAD the honor" postscripts ru-.,
correspondent of The Argus, "of typing nua1.
LOT the honorable Solomon Piffie the othar
oay' Queique Gas B. L. T. used to say honor
All; yes; we knew there was sometime va
wanted to say. 1t is miracle that we Sid NE
t t1nget IT, we think of many things to out in
tn nS UIIa Fourlda when we are busy at another
task, but they never recar when we are At tha
business of colyuming at Tie
a., bot what We started to say is this: satpr-
Gay we typed little aside to Cactus In wb;nh |
Friend Bill the compositor. cansed N. w nlcn
one should give oneself to industrial word
surgery The word we had written was CIV |
the W. k foul balls 0ne VI
MUTE TO Foreman Bill If this colyum isn't
iong enough to fill our allotted space Won can
nave II set in II point light italc
OR better still, write it yourself. /
K MG