Show I A BELLETRISTIC VICE PRESIDENT I Considering the fact that it w Was as written h by a vice president of ot the United States who Is relegated by custom to a career of oC effacement self and Inno anonymity that Nineteen Eighteen poem of Mr I Thomas U rt Marshall was passing fair fall The sentiment was in harmony with the spirit of the times and does honor to the h heart aTt of a good man Possibly If f George Creel had bad been over here where many people seem to think he belongs the verses might have been If f not d deleted entirely at Nat least censored censored censored cen cen- somewhat For Instance It is not possible in the second couplet of the he third stanza to move trippingly along on the iambic feet one gets used to o in the preceding lines without pronouncing pronouncing pro pro- fireside a as if it were nere made up of ot three syllables In the second couplet of ot the fourth stanza It would have bave been much more euphonious to lave c made an anapest out pr of It lt will have jave adding another syllable to the theline line of course than to make two clumsy iambs lambs out t ou ot of It will and and- bv hAv J Jr S i I l r T I an an Surely only carping critics will find fault with the rhyme made up o of ot plain and again It may be that the muse attacked the vice pr president while he was clandestinely trying to warm up the seat of our Great Absentee Absentee Absentee Ab Ab- Ab- Ab and fussed him just a wee mite in th the tha matter of prosodic At any rate raie the Chief thief was away as was aso aM the extraordinary and TR T T. R R. M M. wrote the poem himself No doubt it was Just what he wished it to tobe be And nd so we are all satisfied THE COLONEL AND THE COOTY OR BIG BROTHER BOUNTIFUL Good Colonel House Once met a louse loafing A on th the boulevard Said Colonel House S Unto the louse f S How is it cooty since th war Replied the louse Sweet Colonel House I r. r too am ant almost spent hunger So whined the louse To Col Colonel nel House r Im looking looking for for wr N. N B B. B Every bloomin boch bocho is onto oto onto his Job And the th best prop THIS WILL GO UNCENSORED ORED Anyhow George Crl l la Is s over over too AH MI is 18 w well ell II f I j S 'S r |