Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16

Sir: I am informed all employees of
the mint at Washington are members of
organized labor. Does this explain the
origin Of the Union Jack?
SWEET CORPORAL.
THE FURY THAT HE'LL HATH
NOTHING LIKE.
(The La Porte Argus)
The misflt newspaper down the
street pulled another boner yester-
day. 1t printed an article telling
how the Valparaiso Standards the
team that was defeated by the Le-
gion early In the season, lost TO
Kouts Sunday by a Is to 0 score
Instead il was the Valparaiso Ath-
letics that fell before Kouts. The
Standards played at Racine, Wiscon-
sin.
John Mccormack IS going TO Ireland
to rest. SO he's anoptimist as well as
a singer, eh?
Unfortunately, in his ultimatum that
bathing suit skirts must be fourteen
inches from the hip, the marshal forgot
to state whether above or below.
A SMILING TRAFFIC cor ISN'T
SUCH 4 REPULsIVE SIGHT,
EITHER, SIR.
(From the Anderson Daily Bulletin.)
The Prettiest Thing In Town.
1t isn't the school nor even the church,
Tho for nobler ones, afar you must
search;
It isn't a cottage nor yet lawn
Tho some viii compare with the glory
OF dawn;
1t isn't a portulaca bed
Its beauty fit pillow for tired angels
head;
It isn't maple tree, nor a pine
Tho Of all the trees these two are mine.
It isn't a robin or an oriole-
Tho these sing next to the song sparrow;
1t Isn't a rose-tho the rose Is queen
OF all the loveliest foWers l have seen.
No-the prettlest sight IN this old town,
Or I'm all the Countrywide world around.
Is mother and babe-she lending
above,
Both laughing and reaching out hands
for love.
OUR OWN HALL OF FAME.
Sir: Jesse Jester is not a colyumist, as
one might infer, but custodian Of
cemetery at Anderson. Ind. T. c. S.
PLOP!
(From n short story.
Their eyes met for a long, breath
less moment and swan together"
One hates 10 toot the horn Of ones own
prodigy, but, when o.s p. asks one II
the Lord could drive speed bus faster
than Jimmie Murphy, what Is one to do
or say?
$50 eager was the mayor to get the
theater ready for opening, July g." We
see by the Times, ''he ordered City En-
gneer Elliott personally to stake ort the
site then went along himself to see the
Job was done"
The pinnacle Of eagerness, one might
chirp bromidiotically.
TRUE PATRIOT.
Sir: At the conclusion Of his stirring
address on What Old Glory Stands
For" the silver-tongued orator clamped
on his kelly and sat down while the
band played 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner." Have you had your iron today?
NOAH LITTLE.
"Rurlesque isn't what 1t used to be-"
theatrical Nope, one used to have to
20 to the theater to see 1t.
A merchant IN a small Indiana town
is advertising his Christmas bargains.
whether he's an unusually far seeing
cuss or merely an old fogy is hard to
determine offhand.
Noah Little suggests the Follies lnau-
eurate q stingy mems contest and Of
fers to start it off with q tightwad who,
he deposes. wouldn't give n nickel to
see Salome do her dance Of death with
a single veil
Of YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT'S HARD"
QUOTH SHE. TRY 1T YOURSELF"
love my husband dearly
And L always strive to please,
But I'd rather take uclkin'
Than to iron his b. v. DIS,
A JUNE BRIDE.
Major Pratt sheds some interesting
light on this dirt farmer thing they keep
talking about in Congress. Major knows
him personally, he says Used to take
milk from him.
Copyright, 1922, by Fred Myers.)