The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-30


since we read that birds violent attacks on
America some years ago we've felt that he was
( a bad egg.
sWhat! Never?7 no, Never!" What!
Never!o "WeIl, Hardly Ever
from a Consolidated Press story.l
Street corner vamping in the name or
charity was sport in which some of the
daughters of the capitals best families
could indulge 1t was exciting and OF
course these street acquaintanceships
never went any farther-or rarely ever.
PEGGY radios from Chicago that her ia
vorite mispronunciation used to be "burg-u-lar".
Have you noticed she asks, how many peo-
pie who really should know better pronounce
1t burg-u-lar?
IS KROCH A FRIEND OF YOURS?
R. Z. MIG. A gland tuned up at your do
ings as related Friday in your dry under
date of May %.
I'll leave it to Red if anyone in the scena-
rios "fimmed" as we them is an actor"
or an artist! Won is fit only for the optics
of maiden 1eddies whose adams apples are con-
cealed by grey grapefruit protuberances and
whose repressions would make Freud, Brill ct
al. blush.
Thanks for the Peter While tip will
consult Kroch about it BAT
Addenda: Satan sharpen his spear if the
c. V. V. stuff causes me to reach for my hand
kerchief and so bring echoing curses upon you
B.
artist When any film cavorter can stir our
hatred S. did he must be artist for
our movie reactions are mighty few.
@Dulce est Desipere in Loco
Fanny Butcher in the Sunday Tribl
Beg your pardon Twice Once that
was my own fault; once that wasn't l
said that Pope said What fools these
mortals be-" and the Tabloid sharp-shoot-
ers discovered to me that Puck said it in
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" When 1
cad no Man Don coiJ
but probably in the more modern versions
the wrong has been righted and Mr.
Shakespeare has had his goods returned
to him.
EVERYTHING is reduced from SO 1-3 to
100 per cent reads ad in the Moline Dis
patch, mailed to us from a friend in East
Moline.
In other words the reductions show a down.
ward revision with an upward trend-or some
thing Like that.
Mebbe Launee, Like Judy's Pup, Is a Mental
Christopher Columbus.
Dear Mac: Now wasn't that inconsiderate
OF Launce to go and drag forth that scandal
about my use of Ink? Oh, we'll, personally,
l never thought it was very funny anyhow.
Serieusement, it was not any more original
than Launce's use of Saturday Night Pest
1t was quite gratifying, though, to find that
anybody copld see any similarity between my
seff-inhicted riddles and those of Mendel
MarantZ. l admired HIS so much and now 7
am compelled to dispense with pretense and
admit that mine are nearly as good-or how
L ask you, could people the resemblance?
Next thing. Launce will be discovering that
someone has paraphrased the Twenty-third
Psalm-and he says old stuff is the best-those
eggs he mentioned, perhaps? WHY LAUNCE!
LIE MOO.
P. s.. Oh yes-what are eggs? Puns. When
they're good they're very good and when
they're bad they're just perfectly terrible
P. P. s.: Ny head is bloody but unbowed.
LIE MOO
TWO pages of propaganda sent out by the
W. c. T. U. contain. among other things, this
statement: Undoubtedly the tobacco habit is
the worst enemy to society that we are con-
fronted with today"
And doubtless there are persons who actu-
ally believe that.
OUR idea of the worst enemy to society is
the person who thinks the mode of living of
everybody else needs fixing and who considers
himself divinely appointed (at a reasonably
adequate salary, OF corrseD to act as the busy
little ixer.
Explaining What Makes the Wild Cat Wild.
lFrom the Davenport Democrat
The Tr1-City Garden club will go to
Wild Cat Den Monday providing there is
no rain between now and then and the
start by motors will be at 8: 80 from the
Second street side of Lafayette Square
The visit to the Fairport fisheries has
been given up and the drive will be to
home of the Misses Brandt, with the visit
to Wild Cat Den during the afternoon
TREATIES" Thomas Riley Marshall told
some folks in dear old Lunnon tother day will |
continue to be regarded as scraps of paper uu-
til the people making those treaties understand
one another"
Well. we're not cynic, but the world had
best keep large supply Of wastebaskets in |
handy place
TO-DAY we remembered Tomorrow