Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-19 | Page 11 | More Truth than Poetry

1 11 IMore More Truth Than Po Poetry try tri f I. I I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE MONTAGU I Sq O SUPEREROGATORY I f 4 The newest Invent Invention on o 01 pf science I i A A. A. A newspaper headline affirms Is a highly ingenious appliance v I IFor For hearing the voices of worms iThe i- i V. V The weevils conversing together The earwigs engaged In a roThe row roe if 9 The aph aphids ds discussing the weather i S No more are inaudible now no O N S An utterly useless Invention V t T 1 I This artful device seem to u- u us J r For why should l 1 we turn our attention 4 To the tj-ie subjects that insects discuss v Why h hark rk to the grUb grubs muffled drumming With a microphone glued to the ear When hen now we cant can't sleep for tor the humming g Of the bugs we too easily hear car f I 1 0 By day weve we've been lashed to a fury fury v By the voice of the bluebottle fly Unpleasantly painfully sure he 1 Will ill light on our nose by and b by A hideous horror has bound us As s we lay on our pillow at night When mosquitoes were singing around u us usAnd And we wondered just where they would bite The slugs may deba debate e In the furrow furro The wood ticks may talk as they squirm Far down in his sod covered burrow S May echo tho the song of ot the worm But with crickets unceasingly creaking And bees buzzing loud in their hives We Te cant can't see why science Is seeking To put still more more- noise In our lives ANTIQUES The man who refers to loud speakers as a modern fern h invention has never spent any time In the tie gallery galey of or the house o of MAKE IT A REAL ONE r Iv hope that that cut In the Income tax doesn't turn out out to be merely a scratch FATAL ATAL MISTAKE 5 A notorious notorious crook crool long a fugitive from Devils Devil's Is Island and was arrest arrested d in Scotland He probably tried to pass a bad sixpence Copyright 1924 by the Bell Syndicate Inc