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Show JtHW Popular AA- Mistletoe Sport is 1 VOj n Season V ? f- 4 v. Comes now students, "ye olde mistletoe time," and I think it finds the majority of you only too ready, willing and able to carry on that old European custom. Did I say mistletoe time? Well I could have said parasite time and don't mistake that for paradise. Tis true chilluns' That little sprig you use for such romantic purposes" is a parasite and grows, (according to the encyclopedia) from a "sucker root." But who needs an encyclopedia to know that! But boys, don't get me wrong. According to anicent mythology, my-thology, you aren't the first "suckers." "suck-ers." It seems the beautiful and handsome god, Balder, was slain from an arrow made from its wood, which just goes to show you, it's dangerous stuff! But on the other hand it's believed to bring happiness, (no doubt) safety, (?) and good fortune for-tune as long as it doesn't touch the ground. Oh, yes, it has its good points. It was once considered consid-ered a cure for epilepsy and convulsions, con-vulsions, but it could cause them (sometimes). But who would ever think that a parasite having such an unromantic name as mistletoe could be credited with such won-der-ful powers. Mistletoe ugh! Of course there are such flowery names for it as Loranthaceae or Phoradendron florescens but I couldn't pronounce them and I have my doubts that anyone but a walking dictionary could. But But the modern youth doesn't seem to worry much about the pronunciation. pro-nunciation. In fact he doesn't seem to worry, period. But the poor girls ah me how they have to duck as Joe Blow, who considers himself him-self a second Clark Gable but more resembles Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff, comes strolling casually down the hall with "that" look in his eye and "the twig in his hand." I think the general opinion among the girls is that there would have to be quite a bit of magic done by this powerful parasite before a gal surrenders without a struggle to some of these muscle-bound mistletoe mis-tletoe monsters. , Ah me happy days are here again. At least some consider them happy, but for you gals who have decided to hibernate (not that I blame you) for the season, I leave this parting- bit of poetry which in my opinion describes these little mistletoe episode to a "T". The hanging of a parasite above a lovely miss, A shriek silence A girls has just been kissed! A blush. ... OH MUSH!!! Sincere sympathy, A MISTLETOE VICTIM |