New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-01-14

troubles
Was bolstcring up the battered inner
workings
or sundry OF the towns best people
While I was talking
A great commotion sounded on the
porch outside.
Don't be alarmed" said Martha
"School is out"
The door burst open
And childrcns big and little, came
trooping in.
Great, rosy, boisterous things,
They filled the room with noise and
laughter;
They swarmed about their mother,
Smothering her in kisses and en-
braces,
And in her ear they poured the story
of their day;
Laying their joys and trumphs on her
altar,
Bringing as to healing shrine
Their little sorrows.
NAC0t, Aoey, OOISISIOuS tHlu&3
Beautiful things!
sat there watching them.
Suddenly all the ills that flesh is
heir to
Golfers and tumors. stomach., livcrs,
hearts,
Natural organs and excrcscent
ErOwths---
Seemed futile things on which to spend
life.
felt like some poor lamp
That burns on foolishly when day has
dawncd. EDITH B. ALLEN.
Tolerance is ono of our outsta ndino
qualities and Oc'rc uilling to believe
that many respectable males, vho arc
good to their families, are wcn,tno
these new soft hats with the dinku little
feather on tho side.
young woman is demanding
$4,000 damages because her senses Of
hearing and taste were marrcd by a
fall. If She has to sleep in NV York
and drink it's water she'll have a hard
time convincing the jury.
TIE FERVENT FEEDER
on, aorop me up trcU IN q cyuvemette
sheet:
And copcr my chair acith linolcun, ueuti
For I'm going to dine, and determined
am
The piece dc resistance shall DO the
steamed clam.
The Yale Daily News has impressed
some one into starting a column in
that publication. We send him our
congratulations and our envy; the
first, because it is a darncd good
column; the second, because his Job
Will be over in June and ours--wc drop
a crocodile tcar-goes on and on till
September |.
RONDEAU
A muse was fashioned to be wooed:
With tact and passion to be sued.
She is not one to whom a bard
Should look for help when times arc
hard;
She sweeps no rooms; she cooks no
food.
ITALIA, Eutcr pe-all the brood
Who round Apollo billed and coocd-
He sits. who sends you in this card.
A-muse.
With wits whose treads should be re-
ncwtd
He seeks the whimscys, freshly dewed,
You gave The Towers erstwhile
guard;
unsoilcd by use, newborn, unmarried
That might the vcnial or the prude
Amusc.
Mr.. Hylan, delving into history,
speaks approvingly of Franklin. Is it
possible that Commissioner Of History
Revision Hirshfeld hasn't yet discoy-
cred that Bcn's father was English
"Cut out booze and poker stuff"
Ernest directs. "Thcre arc more oen-
erot and ,0orthwhile things to be funnu
about"
This red-penciled command practi-
cally spoils our entire day, coming. as
it does, right on the verge of our an
nouncement to the customers that II.
w. G. carols:
O wine!
II whisky comes,
Can gin be far behind?
Furthermore, A. G. has strained the
Plattsburg-Ncw York postal service
with the weighty information that our
chances of getting royal nush. pat,
are 649,700 to !. Which. through the
law of averages, convinces US We must
be about due.
Consider, Ernest, the universally of
at least one of the topics you prohibit.
observe the synura; quietcr and more