The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-04-11
IDEALS OR IDEAS?
BY GEE SEE

flight,
And passed it in huff;
The many read it with delight,
And chortled, That's the stuff"
*a##**
Robbie Burns wrote some of the
purest poetry the world has ever
read. But during his life it was the
doggerel verse he wrote that caused
men to acclaim him.
On window panes, scraps of paper,
on mugs and the tops of tables in
drinking pubs" in the presence of
boon companions of the Glowing
BOWL" he wrote couplets and bas-
tard rhymes in off-shade tones
which Immediately wor the acclaim
of those who heard them.
But his finest poetry was not
acclaimed for long time.
And if the over-sensitive moralist
claims that it was Burns finest
poetry which made him immortal,
he is wrong.
Burns finest poetry would never
have been known had it not been for
the furtive verses on love and wine
that made him welcome to every
gathering.
And now that his fame has been
won, his doggerel verses are always
printed in the same books that con-
tain his finest poetry. And after
all, these doggerel verses have a
greater wealth of human nature and
truth than some of his finest poetry
****++
If | write my lines to rhyme with
sky,
Most of my reader pass them by;
But if my lines shall rhyme with
leg,
They read them; and for more
they beg.
Human nature is a funny thing;
the very people who deplore risque
stories, are sometimes the most dill
gent in retelling them to friends
Sin strictest confidence"
*@&**&
"How dare you say such things 2"
she cried.
And she turned and left him cold;
But she giggled to a girl she met,
As the story she retold.
*#&@##
| thought ! had disposed with the
| subject of dress and undress, cos
tunes and bathing suits, ct al, by
the lengthy discussion in this column
last week. But the Subject" keeps
showing up"
AS for instance, the International
News report of the excitement
created at Cornell University recently
when the Y M. C. A. officials re-
quested that the girls in the dor
mitory opposite the Y. M. be made
to pull down their shades when they
are in the process of dressing or
undressing.
The reports said that "the girls
are being seen before their windows
in abbreviated costumes before re-
firing, and observed by male stu
dents who are able to get places at
congested windows facing the dor
{ mitory."
The aforementioned male stu
dents" protested that the complaints
of the Y. NJ. officials We're made
without their sanction or solicit
tation,"
Question: Are the Y. NJ, officials
more evil minded than the male
students ?"
The mayor Of Asbury Park is be-
ing accused of attending an "im-
moral smoker" at Deal Inn where
liquor was drunk and he was seen
holding half-nude dancing girl ON
his lap.
Perhaps it was marathon dance,
and she was on the last lap.
***&&@
But it certainly shows how the
voters will stop at nothing when
they Ego after" an office holder
when they get tired of him.
%**%*s
Now it is reported that Magnus
Johnson, the wind iamming" SEN
ator from Minnesota. was glass
blower before he became a farmer.
s**s**
Which proves that he is quail
fled for his job Leather lungs are
the chief requisite for a politician
nowadays.
The controversy has at last reach
ed this section as to the proper
spelling of the fascinating Chinese
game which has taken this country
by storm:
Don't worryl You can spell it
any way you wish, and still be as
right as the next one.
One rule book spells it NAH
iongg;p another spells it ''ma
jong;' a Chinese student at Column
bia. writing nthe New York Tri-
bune Magazine, spelled it "mah
chiang;;" another spelled it "mah
cheuckr Some write it in capitals.
others do not.
SO there you arel Pay your mon
ey and take your choice.
%RS@%s
Carveth Wells, of the Royal Geo
graphic Society. is telling of the
"tree-climhing fish" he saw in the
Malay Peninsula. He said that they
"bashfully scaled trees and looked