Show 4 I More Truth Than Ihan Poetry I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE Though gOod od King Arthurs Arthur's heart was kind No valiant vassal knight Could ever quite make up his mind To lick him In a a. fight When at the Joust his sword he drew Amid the tho crash and din They loudly clamored clamor d We are through through- Great Sovereign Liege you ou win Though kings at various arlous games have played Since they began to reign No rash contestant eer essayed A victory to gain No Xo champion set such store by fame The which his prowess proved That hed he'd not rather lose a game Than have his head removed Yet Sweden's king In quest of ot sport As doth become a man Invites the world out on the court To beat him him if it It It Itcan can His lofty station he forgets The pellets bound and fly The king is walloped two love sets And never bats an eye However this occurred in France One reads In the dispatch h That by the merest circumstance A Briton won the match And In the news the cables bring We Ve dont don't expect to read That even this good natured king Is walloped by a Swede HOPELESS It now develops that Ireland cannot be ruled b by bythe bythe the Irish and the English together U USEFUL Congress produced a record output of ot political platitudes which will come in handy to build party platforms out of ot next year 7 HARDLY ENOUGH TIME I Senators Senators and representatives will have a a. vacation till tm December and they'll need every day of ot It to apologize to their constituents I AS YET VET THAT IS According to a recent estimate England has I poets three of whom have not lectured In thIs 3 coun country SAD Some congressmen who have gone home to do a aI I little repair work on theIr fences discover nothing le left t but the c post holes and most of ot them filled up UD Copyright 1 1923 1023 23 by the Bell Dell Syndicate inc |