Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-21 | Page 4 | More Truth than Poetry

.. i f More Truth Than Poetry j By JAMES J. MONTAGUE y . ; THI UNCHANGING SIX. A roistering blade waa tha cava man. The saber toothed tiger ha alew. With a Jab of hla spear and sinister sneer, For hie fears wera but feebl. and few. He treaded the perlloua Jungle. I'ntrsmmeled and footloose and free. In search of a fight with aome hairy faced wight Aa large and aa savage as he. But never believe for a minute . That he walloped hla wlf. on tha dom. '. If she served him rsw meat In tha cavern retreat Which ha hewed In a cliff for hla home. Kor a woman, though only a woman Though low and III formed waa her brow-Could brow-Could manage a man Juat as well as shs can Now. A g!ant for strength waa tho eavw man. , Hie cheat waa quite covered with wool. Ha could drag a he-bear with oae Jerk from his lair And wrestle with a dinosaur bull. When peeved at an III mannered neighbor A fifty-pound roclt ha could throw. , . i ... . - mab - - ,iii It iult'red end broke Whea ha wanted to fashion a bow. But pray do not get th. Idea That he wooed with a long Marled knlfa Of employed might and main In persuading a Jane That she must perforce ba hla wife. For a ferns le. though only a female. In her waya was determinedly set. - And could handle a man aa aha easily can ' T.t. SHOCKING. Wa learn that tha little beetles found on .telephone .tele-phone cablea eat them up In a little while. Wa formerly supposed that the little creature were merely trying to llaten in to the telephone conversations con-versations that paaaed through th. cables. TMSY ALWAYS HAVK THI RIOMT OF WAY Thera la aome delay In ths mall service, bnt the Income tax duns aiwaya manage to get. through on schedule. , EVCNINQ THINGS UP. . Mr. Wlllnrd haen't marie aa many fllwwre aa Mt, Ford, but he haa got mora money aut of .vary ana ha ha mad. ' . THK tXCtPTION. A eabl dispatch Informs us that thera t pro-, hlbltlon tn Bophal. India. Wa thought rt would be established semewher before teng. (Copyrlfbt, Ui. by to 330 Syndicate, Inc.)