Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-11 | Page 7 | More Truth than Poetry

I I 1 ii- ii More Truth Than Poetry jl J L By Br JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I IN OLD NEW YORK Ve Ye have learned to contract as apartments y yVe grow dearer S SIf If you should wall walk Into our snug little flat Your Tear eyes would bulge out at our bipartite mirror Our folding bull pup and collapsible cat The bath is built under the room dining table The Tho stove when unlighted is used as a a chair Inside the piano were we're easily able f 5 To keep all the clothes that the women folks S S wear S 5 The phonograph records do duty duh as platters I The ice box contains all our small sm store of ot books T They h ey crowd out the victuals but that hardly mattens mat mat- 1 tens S The butter iter and cheese are J from hooks I IVe I'Ve We Ve keep all the flowers in kitchen utensils The radio set on the gas log we place In our pockets we carry ink paper an and pencils And the set of man malt saving mu much h space Weve We've sold the tho piano and purchased a lyre Which serves very very- well for tor a bed sprIng at night We have no for lamps but the clock cock on the tho spire 1 I S Just over the street serves us nicely with light The beds are like Pullman berths lower berths lower and upper upper- Upper They're restful and cozy although small If company comes we can gan dance after atter supper supper- Outside o of the flat Is a large tile-floored tile hallBy hall By only one thing is our happiness clouded Ono One circumstance fills us with shadowy gloom For the last year or two we have been rather crowded S For the baby takes up quite a good bit of room We think that we ought to dispose of him maybe To find him a place seems a terrible task task task- But If It they'd Invent a bab baby Wed We'd ed have all the room that a fa family lIy could ask S EXPLANATION l. l Probably the saying Is money is due to the fact that thai both of them fly It i S tor MEAN TRICK t Mr or Ford has hag declined to become a candidate and now Mr Bryan will have e to hunt around and find somebody else to oppose SONG FOR SPEEDERS I Rush down the valley and over the hill hill hill- I If the coppers dont don't get you sou the grade crossings will J Copyright 1023 1923 by the Dell Bell Syndicate Inc