New-York tribune., 1922-09-27
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| Rhat might have been made into a
triolet if one had the ambition.--Mehit-
abel the Cat wishes to 90 to the Worlds
Serious games, too, but it is likely that
she will not be allowed in the park
Mehitabel has new friend whom she
calls frankie, but we believe him to be
the reincarnation Of Francois Villon in
the body Of an alley cat.
Autumn is said by the poets to be q
very melancholy time for everybody, but
think what an extraordinarily melan-
choly season II must be for poor old Mr..
Hearst! So many, many summers he
has thought he was in politics, only to
find out differently in the autumn!
One Of the saddest sights ever saw,
! Horatio, sVas the VsmeYoble Heoyst;--
He stood beside brook, already
swollem
By Autun@al rains, augmentinu
avsth tears
tn .cquia,oriul storms.
!
Cleo writes to ask: "Do you think
that Capt. Fitzurse would have the
courage to wear his old brown soft hat
all summer ?"-Madam, Fitzurse has
courage for everything. we might
say, if we we're writing one Of those
! French Without Struggle things:
( That ancient brute
rs capable de tout!
The best way to treat the old villain.
Cleo, is to pay no attention to him.
Hermione met him in the park one day,
and within fifteen minutes by the clock
he had hold of her hand and was tell
ing her fortune.--He was proceeding
through phrenology toward psyche
analysis when we came up and rescued
! her
He is such a fast worker that on
one occasion, SO one of his daughters-in-
law informs us, lady divorced him be-
fore he had married her.
Prof. Ellsworth Huntington, of Yale.
wants to know: "Do the Stars Direct
the Course Of Human Destiny y?"-Haig
and Haig used to think so.-~Maybe they
still DO. 1t has been so long since we
voyaged in that frmament.
Ttcinkie, tpinkle, little star!
I assd to meet you at the bar!
Now tho price Of Scotch 10 high,
| Like diamond In tho sky!
Was it Jane Taylor that had q drink
named after her?--Or Mamie ?-Dr.
Huntington has made chart, showing
the positions Of the stars during the
next 10000 years.-"If you want to
know what is going to happen during
the next 10000 years. says circular
which lies before us as we write, "we
must refer you to the chart"
But we know what is going to happen
during the next 10000 years without
looking at the chart.--Taxpayer, Pro
Bono Publico, Interested Citizen and
Paterfamilas are going to write TO-
100000 letters to the newspapers, ask
ing, WhitAer Are We Drifting?
| When We moved from "The Sum
to The Tribune we found one Of Bill,
benet's poems which he sent us seven
years ago.-We will sell it back TO Bill
for SO line.-If Bills verse doesn't
bring that much, it ought to; It's about
the best verse there iss-It is SO good
that Bill, on second thoughts, will have
to pay us SIS line for it.
Wonder why it is,' writes The Black
knight, shat some folks always pst mad
when you stop doing them fayors ?.---
Nurblieh has discovered that the moths
have taken up golf; one Of them. he
says, recently made eighteen holes In
his dinner jacket in par.--F. Ivor sends
this along;
Lest thstr verses be not fret,
Lst Others quake Gnd couey.
I've read as for az this to SEQ II
y should end The Tovsr."
he comes pretty near doing it, too
When ne says he read as far as this ha
probably means from the bottom up.---
Aunt Prudance Hecklebury Is busily en-
ragged to-day sewing thu first motto on
DR.. Frank Cranes Dressing Gown.
DON MAkauw