Show I Mo More e Truth Than Poetry I i cI c- c I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I Q GLOOMY PROSPECT The French secretary of ot agriculture announces that water vater is la absolutely unsafe to use as a beverage When told that one who fills his skin With constant draughts year ear after year year Of whisky whisk brandy rum or gin Will wm have a rough and brief career We said Well WIl V ll pause before we pass Into a perilous decline f J I Ig ij Though now and then well we'll take a glass clan I r I Of ale or beer eer or maybe vIre wine i But even drinks as mild mUd as these A doctor said to us one da day I Break down the health by slow I es And bring on premature decay I Not wishing to be thus destroyed On beers beer and wo we cams came to frown I And tea and coffee we employed fi To wash our dally daily victuals down But But here again alas ala's we erred I By Dy new misgivings we were rack racked d. d For tea and coffee so we heard Lay waste to the digestive tract a So not particularly keen 2 j I In any swift decline to sink ft I We said In after days we Jk I Cold too o our only d drink 1 But now we learn that microbes swarm And lie In wait walt with subtle stealth In water be It cold or warm To undermine a persons person's health This fact tact has left us dour and glum For if it we do not want to die We see that In the days to come Weve We've got to take our victuals dry I r p CONTINUOUS The war on humanity is going on forever If It the Germans arent aren't waging It the germs are r SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD The French deny that the occupation of the Ruhr Ruby is Is' Is Isan an Invasion They have merely copied tho Germans and employed an effective substitute I USED TO IT It will not surprise Hollywood to learn that a astar astar astar star has blown u up |