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Show More Truth Than Poetry j By JAMES J. MONTAGUE j A WORD FOR THE DEFENSE. Our ancestors weren't such a wonderful lot, A Harvard profeaaor declares, Averring It's merely the veriest rot To think they were regular bears. They drank and raced horses and stayed out at night. In the days of their rlproarlng youth. And did other things not exactly Just right, No doubt If ths world knew the truth. He thinks, this professor, thnt folks of today Do stunts with the modernised brain That the fellows who thought in the old fashioned way Could have only attempted in vain. ' They couldn't build railioads or telephone ' lines. Or talk without wires through the sky, ' They'd have burned aa a witch any man, hs opines. Who aaid human beings could fly. ! We grant that our grandfathers didn't know much Compared with such wisdom aa oura, The wars that they carried on never could touch Ths war -lust run off by lha Powers, . They didn't know beans about bucket shops then, i Or work get rich quick achemes at all, i They didn't pave flimflam or confidence men. Or even a Tammany Hull, But they did pretty well at the tasks they were set, 1 Though their methods were, ancient and queer. And somshow or other we cannot forget That we owe them the fact that we're here. ; And though great professors may knock the old birds And view their achievements aa alight, We'll always be willing to suy a few words s To prove that they kil were all right! t A BIO. ADVANTAGE. The average girl enjoya a football game mora than the average man because aha doesn't hsve to pretend r to know what Is going on down on the gridiron. r .OUGHT TO BE EASY. It Is unfortunate that the Inventor of. the adding machine died before he had tlma to Invent a typewriter " that could spell correctly. , STRANGELY RETIRING. Mr. Arthur Brisbane says that a gorilla could easily V defeat Messrs. Dempsey, Carpentler and Rlkl. But aa yet no gorilla haa challenged any of the three. J (Copyright, 1121, by tha Bell Syndicate, Inc.) |