The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-10

FROM the Moline Dispatch we learn that
"a bullet crashed through the glass, fell to the
floor and bounded into sugar can.
We can picture bullet crashing through
the glass" and il it were a spent bullet. we can
picture it falling to the foor-but there the
picture ehds. But perhaps We didn't read
far enough; mebbe it was a rubber bullet.
Beauty and Printers Ink.
10. o. Mcintyre. New York Day by Day"1
There was a meeting in the town hall one
day recently attended by writer's and authors
A famous Judge Of beauty declared that in all
his experience he had never seen so many
downright ugly people collected together 1t
recalls the time Irwin Cobb then reporting
on the World. referred to some prisoners face
In uncomplimentary terms The next day he
received the following note: Dear sir: l seen
what you said about me. You amt no Lillian
Russell yourself" 1t is true that New York's
writing crowd does not furnish the handsome
prototypes of Lord Byron. Yet it has its beauty
squad. Winston Churchill has been called one
Of Americas handsomest men. Mrs. Mary
Roberts Rinehart is considered beautiful Still
she really is from Pittsburgh and Churchill IS
now in England. Let me think! Maybe the
beauty Judge was right after all, Oh, yes!
There's Julian Street. He could serve as a
magazine cover model Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
might Also This thing is becoming involved
Full stop right here.
AT the Douglas avenue Methodist church
picnic in Springfield July fourth the girls so
yard dash was won by Johanna Strobe. OBJ
viously Johanna did.
THE best story of "the meanest man" Is
relayed to US verbally by C. NJ who tells
US he found 1t in the American Legion Weekly.
This Prince of Pusillanimity. it annears
took unto himself wife. For honeymoon
trip he took her for a ride on a street car and
as his wedding gift presented her with a bas
OF cheap candy As the end Of the honeymoon
journey approached the deliriously happy bride
turned to her noble l. and m. and said:
Dearest still have some of nv CANDY Jeff
What shall do with it,"
You'd better save it for the children" he
replied. NC
Hoot Mon! We Thocht He Drove Than
Frae the @Ould Sod.
[From the/Chicago Postl
AS soon as the Irish trouble is oufeted
Pussyfoot Johnson is going over to play
Saint Patrick and drive some more
snakes from the "auld sod.
THE mind of small boy is source y,
never-ending delight to one who has onnortv-
nifty to probe therein. Tother day two Argus
carrier boys started an argument in the press
room concerning the motive power of the preas
1t runs like . clock" insisted one IT hetcha
It does "Aw, it don't either" said the second
boy. specifically. "Yes, it does. too" said the
nrst Il saw one O. the men down in front
right here. windin' 1t up with q kew" I'm,
the uninftiated We might add that the yuunrster
had seen one Of the men setting the mechani.
cal counter which registers the number of M.
pers during each days rum
NOW that M'selle Longlong has proved thai
she can play fair game Of tennis when she !,
feeling well. and has trounced the CHAMPION al
SCANDINAVIAN America, perhaps We can turp
our attention to things Of greater moment
trtnsfance. the all-tmportant question Of
haarcat
And still moEU.ampuItpnt, has he tha pr,c.
4.-.s1x q. 4 Mo