Show LIBERTY BONDS BONDS- AND LOVE BONDS By Helen Rowland Everybody is talking about the price of things things' Everybody is facing the cost of war with the exalted conviction that Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty and Honor are worth any price from from your last penny to your our life life life- And that without them nothing is worth anything On the altar of democracy the farseeing farseeing farseeing far- far seeing are eagerly laying down their luxuries their pleasures their comforts comforts comforts com com- forts forts forts- Their hearts' hearts desires desires' From the folly of Babylon back Babylon back to the simple wisdom of Sparta We Ve have vaulted in a day And we know that it is worth the price price price- That anything worth having Is worth having is worth the price even even love Yet love and liberty are alike In this They are the most expensive things in all the world Look what love costs you you you- Your sl sleep ep and your appetite Your common common sense and your freedom free free- dom Your pride and your illusions illusions- and sometimes your conscience It wrecks beautifully laundered shirt-bosoms shirt and soaks innocent coat- coat lapels with rice-powder rice and vio vera-vio- letta It demolishes expensive marcel morsel waves and devastates imported and chiffons It sends a man to the tailor the jeweller jeweller jeweller jewel jewel- ler the florist the haberdasher the pawnbroker pawnbroker- And sometimes to the devil It sends a woman to the modiste the beauty doctor the cooking school the kitchenette kitchenette and and sometimes to toReno Reno It lt costs you your friends and your memory It causes you to pass the former on the street without seeing them And to bow to your enemies with asinine cordiality While it lasts you are a nuisance in business a cross to your family and anda a bore to all the rest of humanity When It is over yon find yourself either yoked for life life- life Or a confirmed cynic until cynic until the next time Even though you win you lose your lose your Independence And even though you lose you gain gain gain- experience Yet in the end when all is counted and you can find nothing tangible that it has profited you you except except a kiss you pity in your heart of hearts the man who has never known the exaltation of love and paid the price For anything worth having is worth the price And love and liberty are alike inthis inthis in inthis this this this- They are both vague indefinite Intangible in intangible intangible In- In tangible unreal unreal- Yet without them nothing is wor worth t m anything Happy the man who has his love bonds and his liberty bonds all bought and paid for for and and in safe keeping Copyright 1917 1911 by the tho Press Publishing Co eo The Tho NewYork NewYork New NewYork York Evening World |