Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-23 | Page 4 | More Truth than Poetry

I More Truth Than Poetry I By JAMES J. MONTAGUE : EMANCIPATED. Since the days of the earliest Mlnga L do not remember the dates, hut they were world famous Kings Who got out the vases end plates). When a maiden of China appeared at her door With horror the people would shiver, And ahe never was seen anywhere any more l-'or they chucked her at once in the river. No lady was tempted to roam , Very far from her own native lea. Kor a young woman's pbice was the home In the land of the heathen I'hlnee. And In order to keep her completely discreet And proof to all waward suggestion. They took silken rlbhon and bound up her feet So that walking was out of the question. Hut China has seen a great light The men have all cut off their queues And tha maidens Jass round m the night Ta the tune of the "llowsng Ho 11 lues," They powder their faces and carmine their lipa No lonner to men they are martyrs. They even break speed laws on motorcar trips With handsome young traveling Tartars. They are shocked that such customs ahouM be. The solemn old Mandarins are. rhey say that their girls are too free And have gone altogether too far. They have got all the moralists gaping aghast. Hut If Indiscretion may claim them When we think how their grandmothers lived In tha past It seems a bit cruel to blame them. THE OBSTACLE. Prosperity will come back as aoon aa they fake the oeak of high prlcea out of tha way. UNDERSTANDABLE. It may be that Liberty bond" have been duplicated, tut nobody ever duplicated any of thoae Oerman bonds hut aold around here In 114. UNFIT FOB A SLOGAN. No candidate for the presidency of the Irish republic arill ever be elected on the issue: "He kept us out of war." (Copyright, 123, by toe Uell Syndicate, Inc.)