The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-08

OUR congratulations to wern and o. D. K.
If other contribs handle these sonnet oddities
as well anticipate getting kouple OF kicks
outa this kontest. The idea, noble sonneteers,
is to compose sonnet by using the following
line endings- no others mote the varia-
ton in the last six lines): Pig bat cat wig jig
hat rat fig; lie red sob die bed rob; or lie red
die bed pie wed"
We await Jay Sig's offering with keen an
ticipation. And we expect truant A Capriccio,
A R NJ, Maid Marian, Tim, LIE Moqueur, Sea-
mozzi (surey Scamozzi) and the rest Of the
merry gang to keep this kontest from death by
atrophy. (Say, Judy; can't YOU sonnetize q
bitO
Doesn't the Man Want to Live?
[From the Davenport Times.l
-. The injured man sees "hoodoo"
lurking somewhere in his neighborhood,
as he recently recovered, after falling
from wagon, and fracturing two ribs
JOHN KELLY of Chicago says that "hoboes"
detest that appellation. They are not "hoboes",
it seems; they are migratory workers. Well
agree to the migratory" part of it.
A CONDENSED CLASSIC.
Enoch Arden.
written by an 11-year-old local schoolboy)
Once there was three children the girls
name was AIMEE Lee and one of the boys
names was Enoch Arden and the other boys
name Philip ray Enoch Arden was the
strongest of the to and when they would play
day but Enoch would keep possession for
week.
But when the time went on They both loved
Anne But Anne seemed kinder to Enoch than
to Philip. Then when Anne got married with
Enoch they lived happy for seven years and
then she had daughter and Enoch hoped TO
save all he could get it good education
Then after too years they had boy. And it
happened know Enoch went ten miles from
home to catch fish it happened he slipt
and fell and limb was broken when they
lifted him and while he lay there his wife had
another son but he was a sick one Then when
Enoch came hosa. me showed him the sckly
baby But Enoch did~pot, want to tell her
that he was gong u China to make an easier
living so he waited till the next day. Then the
next day he told her and took curl off of the
baby and went away.
Then after Enoch went away the latest
child was sick and grew sicklier and then at
last her soul past away. and then after 10
years since Enoch went away Philip came to
ask to be his wife but she told him to wait a
year and then when the year went away Philip
came again and she told him to wait month
But half year past away and then when they
got married she had one more child and that
was with Philip. But where was Enoch he
was rocked on the sea and foated to an Island
where no ships ever came but it happened a
snip was blowen over there and they took
Enoch on And then when he came home he
saw Philip with his wife and all his children
But Enoch said let me not disturb them And
soon after he died it was one of the greatest
NOT infreQuently we receive advice" UPON.
what sort of matter should constitute the con
tent of so-called funny column"-and not
infrequently we ignore it; not because we do
not strive to please, but because we differ with
the adviser. We never claimed this to be
funny column. In fact, like the "hoboes"
we ssdetest the appellation" We try, in the
limited time at our command, to make read
able column; to put something in it that NAV
bring gentle smile or mayhap a chuckle; to
put a serious thought or even a beautiful
thought Gf some contrib will supply it, herein
And we get a bit of comfort from jay Sig.
who writes, among other things, this: "The
trouble with many columnists today is that
they do not give their readers credit for caring
for anything but nonsense"
We Found This In the Warsau (ul.) Bulletin.
Legs to the right of US,
Legs to the left of US.
Legs to the front of u.s.
How they display them!
On they go trippingly,
Dainty and skippingly
Frost that bites nippingly
Does not dismay them
Straight legs and handy ones.
Bum legs and dandy ones
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