The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-04-23
SMILIN' THRU
BY GEE SEE
TO THE ART LOVERS

When fervent tongues your beauty
praise;
Or if your lovely flesh has glowed
With warmth from ardent eyes
that gael
You've shown a grade of excel
lence
For maidens to aspire to reach;
That youths may render homage to
The grace of form and face you
teach.
Altho your likeness ends it's days
Upon grimy wall obscure,
Your vivid, curving lovliness
Will in thousand minds endure.
This is an age of frankness. Con-
slider the steadily lessening raiment
with which women adorn themsel-
yes.
It's one of the best signs of the
times. In Eye olden days" when a
man picked out wife it was like
buying a pig in a poke"
$685..
He couldn't tell whether she was
scrawny or shapely. (Unless he
knew some tricks of the trade that
are lost to this present generation.)
The scrawny ones learned the
tricks of padding that would deceive
even the wisest bachelors.
| +++*s+
Many a man has had genuine
grounds for court action in cases OF
misrepresentation"
But the women are getting more
honest. They dress so as to say
"Well, here | am. Look me over
I'm just what / am and / am nc
ammer."
And since Mr.. Ziegfeld and his
school have been "glorifying the
American girl" in "beauty unadorn.
ed" it has taught men a standard
of excellence in the "female form
divine" so that he is not handicap
ped in picking out his ideal.
s+*+#%
And tho most women hate to b.
praised for their intelligence be-
cause it has the appearance Of
casting reflection upon their physi
cal lovliness, it has taught many o.
them the intelligence Of acquiring
physical beauty and not trying t.
hide any unlovliness they may pos
| sess.
Still, as of old, there are femal,
nit-wits who are beautiful bu
dumb" and there will always b,
men just as dumb to fall for them
+**+*s
She has the skin
You love to touch
This impish little witch;
I'd love to "touch"
1t very much,
But with willow switch!
-****s
They used to say that girls VIII
daub their faces were artists.
But Judging by the way some o
them put it on nowadays they ough
to be called PLASTERERS!
| sssAte
And if some of them could knea
dough like they knead their face
with makeup they'd make wonder
full cooks.
However, most of them partl.
qualify in that they always "nee'
the dough" to continue the applica
ton of their beauty hints.
| ~sss*s
From all appearances the girl
are entering into the spirit of tn,
Spring Campaign to CLEAN VI
AND PAINT UP"
| *sss**
At least they are believers in tn,
slogan, "Save The Surface And Yo,
Save AL"
But appearances are often decep
tive. There are often rotten apples
in the barrel whose top layer shines
with sound, red cheeks.
s++%s%
And now that bobbed hair is al
the rage, men are no longer de
tected for their depradations with
the fair sex by the long hairs or
their coats, but by the permanent
bushes they acquire unconsciously
s$&*s*
Now that the fishing fever is grip
ping most of us it is not amiss Il
refer to AL Grierson. Have you seer
him around the streets of Lambert
vile with his fishing pole?
Some people fish in rivers
Or ponds and lakes as they wish
Some cast their hooks in oceans
Or creeks to garner the fish.
But the most unusual fishing
I've witnessed anywhere,
Is the angling by AL Grierson
Out in the open air.
No, he isn't crazy! He uses {
pole with spring catch on thu
end of it for removing and re
placing bulbs in the street lights
admit l wrote the verses ant
lines reproduced in the April issu,
of "Art Lovers Magazine" but tn,
pictures of the lovely ladies flank
ing the column as illustrations fol
it were provided by M. Hubbard
the editor of said magazine.
And | suppose you will say tha
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