The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-05-29
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Do You, joint

one way or another whether make the line"
Its the other fellows stuff I'm interested in!
| BY the way did you read that G. b. Shaw
saws that he and Anatole France are two
clever persons in world Of fools?
! Your BooIman pome makes me think that
you might have been able to give some more
advertising had you heard John Farrar Book
man editor) at Fields not long ago. You would
| have enjoyed it. l did. He Is SO young and
keen and crisp. His subject, The Younger
! Literary Generation. He confessed right at the
start that he was scared to death, and he was.
He was so full of his subject that he had hard
work getting it across. AS an editor he is 100
per cent, but public speaker he is fine
| brick-layer. -. If he will get in range he
can't blame US If we take a shot at him, can he? ?
| Thanking you In advance for doing the little
murder for me l am gratefully yours,
Chi-6-26-22. PEGGY.
OUR revered parent sheet informs US tvia
the sport page) that Dundee beat Higgins to
ribbons lin the fist two rounds. Shouldn't
this have read the two fist rounds?
pom HONOR WE MEANT EVERY WORD OF
| IT! AND WE LIKE THIS ONE AS MUCH.
They do not mean to be severe,
These older folks who chide sneer
When youngsters show their impudence
Or lack of wide experience.
We know they mourn their youth
In secrecy,
And hate their own profound
Maturity
For youth means first exuberant health,
And dreams of power. love and wealth,
When these are gone what have we, sir,
To keep the weary world asur?
Heigho, perpetual youth,
Speed far ahead,
Prepare our sun TO set
In gold and red!
Dear Mac: The password In that last line
got your interest, I'm sure, even though you
were Tawther bored with all that preliminary
stuff After lodging a lot OF fireworks and
other bolsheviki manifestations in Chi for what
7
beloved" column has acquired a bright
coat of paint. Surprising, however, that you
should have to announce that 1t really is a
funny column" Seems to me it's getting SO
funny one can't help noticing it, But of course
a certain type is so apt to overlook our par
ticular sense of humor and we realize that some
of us literary infants inclined to go to the
extreme in search Of 1t. Even Tennyson sus-
pected that this would happen when he wrote
those teary lines:
AN infant crying In the night
An infant crying for the light,
And with no language but a cry"
I want to thank you for those very kind
words of the 18th inst and l G T E
and everything. or course you were only teas
ing but thanks just the same. You did it SO
artistically WINNIE
TOTHER day a Texas mob burned the
corpse OF a negro and then dragged the> re-
mains through the streets of Waco. The story
says the men Wed with each other in trying to
get part of 1t for a souvenir.
"QuelQue wide B. L. T.) souvenir"
WHY NOT INCLUDE YoURsELF-AND
MAKE 1T TRIPLETS?
r E. MIG: A Argus blew across the river
and having received divers and sundry hints
as to my cerebral vocational tendencies l read
your col, but to date with only mild glandular
reactions.
l do not believe your leading physician, or
whoever 1t is who diagnoses the Affections of |
your contribs, has really found the pulse of
Read. I'll wager picture of an earnest tin
pot messiah from the hog pens of Iowa against
a bottle of this springs brew that LeMoo and
Red are twins-I leave the sex to you to |
fathom-
Answering your question in Thursdays is
sue enter auxill e. =. . there l can't spel! the
damthing auxiliary. Now find me by that.
Ola dear BAT.
WE see by the Chitrib (another plant. prob
abiy) that when bees attacked pony woman
who rushed to its aid was 80 severely stung
and poisoned that she painted.
Alas. many a woman resorts to the Same
thing after she has been stung.
Wherein Death Loses Its W. X. Sting.
bushnell Corr. Galesburg Republican,.
Register.l
Ralph Butterheld Co. are changing
the interior OF their funeral home par
lors in many ways. The Office ia now
made the reception room. The living in
state room is now the ONCE and the dis
play rooms have all been tastefully paint
ed and vanished. The morgue will he
finished of in a beautiful enameled white
and the casket room on the second floor
will also receive a good coat of paint
and. in fact. the company is putting
things in nice shape.
WRITER of Honeysuckle and Bee Is In
Post
That's odd. But perhaps he was dead
: THERE are two reasons why the Pilot of
this Granite Ship does not attempt to write I
a pert last line today
One reason is that he can't think of a pert
last line
And the other reason doesn't r,atter