Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-18 | Page 11 | More Truth than Poetry

1 I More Truth Than Poetry I I I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I 9 v 9 PRETTY TOUGH The trainer at a girls girl's college has forbidden jazzing an and drinking drinking- to all members of I the college athletic teams When Cynthia turns her mind to tennis And seeks to shine upon the court I She's told that jazzing is a menace To this Inspiring outdoor sport snort I And If she trips the light fantastic Until the dawn lights light's ruddy gleam Shell She'll be so stiff and inelastic She cannot make the college team fr When Cynthia stakes her reputation Upon her zippy basketball She finds out to her consternation consternation- That smoking will not do at all The coach stern faced and dea deaf to reason And with with witha a it heart of oC flinty stone lone Declares that for the training season Shell She'll have to let the fags alone When VIen Cynthia hopes to thrill the college And Anti prove herself a radiant star By showing off her hard won Of how to play around in par The he trainer tells her quite unblinking That she much give her cocktails up And not Indulge Indulge- in highball drinking i Or she cant can't enter for the cup S Poor Cynthia's case is most most pathetic Her Ie- Ie eyes with bitter tears are damp A girl so lusty and athletic athletic- Might Ight well become the college champ Bu not for tor her are nrc glittering prizes Her hopes for tor high renown are lost For all too well she realizes She cannot play at such ouch a cost THE EXCEPTION Many Ian thousand children In New York Tork City cannot get into luto the schools It is reported that one of them is worrying about It I ONE CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE Fortunately the open season for campaign oratory ora ora- tory expires early In November o TIMES HAVE CHANGED I I 1 Nowadays s the no mo mot f expensive thing timing in the average a cellar is the coal j 1924 by the Bell Syndicate Inc I j I