The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20

Along these roads to the springtime sowing
With whistle men strobe in days gone by;
Now the only music amid the stiffness
Is hidden woodbird's grieving cry
There, round the hearths that were home for
Cling Iilacs in riot and matted grass;
There, where the lawmakers passed at
The shy, wild shapes of the forest pass
G. S. B.
FOR several days an elusive wheeze has
been playing tag with our conscious and sub
conscious Tor should we say semi-consclous)
mind 1t concerns the frequent moves of the
worlds greatest player of international chess,
Lloyd George. Is there-or not-s1gnthcance
In the fact that his country home is called
Chequers Court?
Fortunately the Victim Will Recover.
from the Sherrard CID Bulletin1
1t was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Forrest Engle just east of town 1t
was a complete surprise to the victim
and was delightfully."- informal.
ONE contectures that Mrs. John Price Wig
ley of Mankato, Mimi, has no difficulty in fol-
lowing the erratic course of the H. c. L.
WHICH reminds us that those who think
there is something alluring about names may
be interested in knowing that Mrs. c. H. Light
hart lives in Bloomington. III.
WELL, HERE'S WILLIE AGAIN! MEBBE
HE'LL FINISH THE COLYUM
FOR US TODAY.
Sir: In a story in recent Sat Eve. Post
the author said: Her eyes had the hard bright
ness of a robin The robin-bright eyes
beamed on him e. Her beady eyes impIored
him Her crumb- starved robins eyes gilt
twinkle at him. Will you please tell me what
kind of eyes she had so 1 may be able to tell
whether it was true story?
Twinkle, twinkle, little eye; why the hard
-, -srrE,% efo
jewel-bright twinkle?
1 see by The Argus of recent date that
prominent young Rock Island banker lido you
get that, JOEL has gone to Wisconsin on
fishing trip and, expecting to break some rec
ords. he took -four rods" with him. Now, poet
de luxe, did you ever make rec by heck,
fishing with 81 rods? Four rods of what?
And where'd he get it? 40 rods the stuff
you've got to have to break records! .. -.
In my pifHe about the man taking butter
milk to his friend in the cemetery you said
Maybe he (the friend) was hot and dry" Now,
sir in all confidence, how many of YOUR
friends in the cemetery are "hot and dry?
Tut. tut, Willie; that is a. in o. s., helluva
question:
While watching the circus parade an elderly
gentleman. who had forgotten his glasses, was
standing alongside of me. The cage with the
bears passed by and the e. g. said to as
that the bear trainer in there? She looks as
though she didn't have a stitch on" Did he
dyou suppose, mean that she was bare bear
trainer?
Would it be asking too much to request
that you keep my stuff on ice until used? You
know this extreme hot weather has a very
deteriorating effect upon anything which is
inclined to be rotten. But this has nothing
to do with the person who. in telling of the
embankment in front of his summer cottage
said I'VE put in lot of riff-raff last fall and
the ice and high water washed 1t all out: but
we're going to put in lot more riff-raf as
soon as we can get around to it"
You remember way back in the SOS when
the wild pigeons were thick that, they roost-
ed in trees? We'll. hardly,] Well did YOU
ever hear of quail roostin' in trees? They do
out here on Rock river-not because they're so
thick but because they're rather high-toned or
sorethin'. But what wanted to ask is WHY
do they (the quaiD continuously call Bob
White? I can why the female MIGHT he
interested in Bob" but mi be burned If ca pe
understand why the male biSds should always
be calm i'm. -.
WHY is The Argus girls camp on Rock
river like a Turkish harem? Give IN? An
swer: Because it's full of beautiful dancing
girls and no men allowed inside the fence,
Better come out and watch 'em dance all nv
their lonelies while boatloads of fellows ride
up and down in front OF their cottage inst
dyin' to be invited in Don't tell 'em Write
Green gave you this information rob. GER
tainly not. WILLIE GREEN
FOR once we put one over on Willie He
usually sends US weeks supply of contribu- |
tons in one envelope and (usuaily) use |
them one at a time. But why should We write |
this colyum when someone else will do It for |
us? Echo answers, Don't be chump."
NO writer, ancient or modern, had a clearer
vision than our beloved teacher B. L. T. He |
once wrote some verses setting forth his ideas
OF how the Irish question could be settled. |
The news from Lunnon indicates that il is |
about time for us to dig them out of our scran- |
book and reprint them
STAND by the Islanders, win or loose /"
declaims an Argus sportotorial And the |
streamer on the same sports page reads thus:
Wild, Weird Game to Dunns, I5-9"
OBVIOUSLY We must stand by them /
loose.
Filler.
The makeup man is sore:
He says to US, says he:
Come on with five lines moretn
And here, by HEX, they be.