Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-09
Miss Byrnes' Friends Had
Tried to Persuade Her
Merit Didn't Count in
This Contest, but She
Stuck to IL

! NO Gull tnnTp. AZ last
gcsted that the call nieht boro CO.., =
| from the saloon. took cb,nno
on IT,"
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| "akes "ood Friction Scenario
. There YOU are with the scenario
Of another chapter in the EVENING
PCBL1C LEDGER's popular serial
! "DROr Is A LINE AND PICK UP
y CENTURY,"
Sccne-Family room in a corner
saloon.
Timc-10 a. m
| Enter. woman portrait and miniature
painter. hair touched with gray. mem.
her Of old Quaker family attending
Race Street Meeting, as have many good
old Philadelphia families for years. She
| answers the telephone And she learn.
! that she has won limerick prize of
500 An appointment Is made. TO
take her photography She leaves the
saloon
Fiction editors would say il wasn't
done. We'll. il was.
Sarah Palmer ByrnPs, of the Plastic
S'.%oo, et sITu",n nnai. :" ,nc IhiLau,'phla
cmy and M t6e Atelicr No,tnornasso
| Paris. has submitted an answer 70
! EVERY IJNFRICE So FAN TO
| DATE. Now sho has won
Right hcrr popocntonctI our oaicc
cat, who spcaks seven lnpguayes asls
To dictate n fcw lines Tbc dcof anG =.
dumb voune woman will nlcoso taLc Tho
dictation. Ready. shoot
"As an elderly cat Of corsidcrahle
| cXpericpcr in thr wovs NJ this world I
believe thnt tho winning of N;s, saroh
Palmer Byrnes ought TO be n lesson for
some Of The short snorts ,xho bo~o hosn
| 80 49, -
framed WIZ
"Whilc stroIIinc bocL md so.,h o,o,.
some of INV favorito bouIcvards NJ cron.
| tide Cand latcr). 7 have now and again
heard some of these real wise guys' tell
! how they met somebody who knew some
body clsc who had it straight from a
man who worked on the EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER that they read only a
| few hundred letters every day, and
threw the rest aside. Couldn't be
bothered
I'm an old cat. and ! cant get
around like used to, but some cold
gray morning before this contest is
| ended. I'd just like to hunt up Il few
Of these melancholy ravens at home
Ia lik- 20 stroll past tho corner cop as
II ] were winding up the night instead
,Lo ''ean,."S u nurI InH worb' und
respectable night watchman in u
cheese factory--I'd like TO turn to and
tip. over the bottles Of milk on the
doorstcps Of every one of these jolly
good fellows who are sure the EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER jurics sit up nights
thinking of ways to do them wrong.
Then. IL ! got away with that 7 d
like to wait until these NEVER. MORE
BIRDS arose. and watch them come
out and discover their split milk. I'll
bot the streets would be SO full of briny
tears that the car tracks would be
rusty before noon. Yours truly. Thomas
popocatepetl, Feline Volcano of the
Limerick Department.
Which is the Office pets way Of say.
ing that Miss Byrncs is different from
IA fcw-a very few folks. happily--in
that shc has been able to keep on going
without mrditating suicide because Of
her unappreciatpd genius. She has writ
ten limerick after limerick and never
oven gotten on ballot. Her mother
has laughed at her and told her that
limcrickng was n farce.
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Some OF her skNpticAl friends have
told her Where have We heard it be-
force that her lines certainly OUGHT
20 wln--hut they wont, because these
contests are all for the insiders, you
know. Here's what she SAYS about it :
II have observed this: That most of
/ the winners have had AT least fair
cducation Maybe that helped them to
realize that every idea that looked good
10 them wasn't a masterpiece. and may d.
b" that is why they didn't always agree
with admring friends that their con
tributious weren't read. anyhow. I
have done some writing. under various
| nom dc pumeS, for the Boston Tran