Evening star., 1941-05-15
The Coming
Tower
M z M o RS

EMoIRs
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Message In Charcoal.
High towers reaching down MAJ
you archaic,
Persephone. This I do not regre
For I would have him think of n
and miss me
A little longer yet.
Later >. a chiliad in your QUAR-
and pretty
Way, you may make him feel
home In he'll.
Show him some special courtesy >.
amuse him.
But not too well.
Helen Remembers the Day.
Iphigenia was a pretty child,
Less grim, and more elastic than he
sister:
Electra used to wake ut midnigh
weeping.
Cassandra was a problem. No or
missed her.
Orestes was darling, I adored him
Hector was priggish, Ajax was a bull
Achilles was the one I used to dreaIl
Paris? Oh, Paris! He was very dull.
DOROTHY DOW.
***%
Eleven years ago the Connin-
Tower ran a few paragraphs aboU
Prof. Robert e. Rogers. professor
English at Massachusetts, Institut
of Technology, who died on Tues
day. Prof. Rogers, it will be recalled
made satirical address in which n
advised the boys to be snobs, and to
marry the boss daughter. Sine
then we have been keeping track O
such matters, and We announce tina
65.3 per cent more girls married th1
boss son than the other way rouno.
But what we started to say abou,
the late Prof. Rogers was that he
wrote stimulating book, The Fine
Art Of Reading" and whom we len :,
it we little noted at the time, no.
long remembered. When we COM
mented on Mortimer Adler's How to
Read a Book" we. should have re-
recommended The Fine Art OF
Reading" His later book. How to
Be Interesting" did us, as we are
reminded from time to time, if not
more frequently, no good.
Outside of the fact that Hess is in
one Of the British Isles, this depart
ment is unable to tell readers exactly
why he is there. what he said to
whom, or why he said it. Our only
conjecture is that already publishers
are after him for contracts to write
his postwar autobiography.
Disarmament.
Poet, never attempt to sing
OF sorrow or general hell, 30.
Until you've lived through a lovely
spring
Stalled by tennis elbow"
N. D. PLUME.
Technically, though, your plight 10
Known to doctors as bursitis.
564 Trainees Inducted-New York
Times headline.
And by the S. t., 564 Inductees to
Get Training.
Speaking of the ZEE ending. why
is a stander in a theater called q
standee?
Book Review.
My comment is a fervent "Yop"
To Miss Martha VOLTS "Whistls
Stop"
A dreamer we. with our head In
the clouds and our nose, worn BY
long and close proximity to the
grindstone, 1t Is hard for us to un.
derstand what the Government
means by excess earnings. Does it
mean the difference between what
we get and what we ought to get7
For If the individual were the Judge,
he would be loath to admit that he
Is oyerpaid. AS we have said befors
about the columning job, it depends,
While we are concocting this Turret
Of Taradiddle we feel that there ia
not enough money in the world to
compensate us, and on payday We
feel that we cannot possibly do work
Of the quality that is rewarded 50
prodigally.
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Alas and AIaa.
Oh, the British, they attaoi the Iraoi,
The 1raqi, they craq baqi at the
British,
But 1raqi, they no laqi,
30 they take long tao baqi.
AS the planes and guns and tanks,
they make 'em skittish.
For equipment of this kind is what
they laqi,
And to purchase 1t they haven't got
the jaqi,
So their futures very blau,
anu IIleu Crlel Will get the sac.
So why he fit at all seems kind OF
waqi
JOSEPH PULLING FISHMAN.
~ X "
Land-of-the-free note: At Quincy,
Fla, four unidentified and un.
identifiable men lynched a Negro,
although no formal charge of as.
sault had been placed against him.
X y
Our compliments to the baseball
teams of the Nation. At least they
don't advertise that everybody who
attends game is doing his bit for
defense. F.P.A.
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