Show Jim Jinn Jam Darn Gem hem Result of I Seeing Snakes in Bath w EW have experienced tho the F FEW terrible le phantasmagoria of or a group of or pink alligators climbing c ov over r tho the foot root of or tho the bed hed of or a L herd of or green elephants skipping nimbly about tho the room of ot hairy turtles wrestling purple kan kan- That IH in one diversion which tho the legislators have crt c- c chased from the confines of ot the state state state-or or at 1 least the gate Is 15 open and the ro road d leads away Which Is b by way of or Introducing Introducing- ladles ladies and gentlemen Mr Charles Roman the tho author and experimenter experimenter experimenter menter menter of or an nn attack of or delirium tremens in It Its advanced stage Mr Roman Is an Englishman unless Englishman unless I the delirium tremens took him off oft In which case ho he I Is a Was And Anti It was Mr Roman who In Indirectly Indirectly indirectly In- In directly Is Is- Is or Is-or or r was was responsIble responsible for tor that classic caption Jim Jam Jems Joins The original caption however however how how- ever over was waa A A Jim Jam Gem and It was written as a 3 head to carry Mr Romans Roman's story of at his experienCes experiences expert expert- with the delirium tremens Clarence E. E Eddy who Is If known pretty well over the West Yest as tho the poet prospector is tho the originator of ot Jim Jam Gems Ho wrote that classic while he was editing u IL newspaper In Portland Ore Mr Ir Eddy Is the tho discoverer of ot the now famous Lost Packer mine and when ho he I Is not prospecting fur for gold ho he Is assaying poetry He Is s sat at present a n. resident of ot Salt Lake Hero Is Mr Romans Roman's classic A JIM JAM GEM It Is said that no two persons see anything exactly alike Charles Roman a n. noted author has recently recent recent- ly 1 given a description of or his own personal experience with delirium tremens The Telegram quotes a afew afew afew few brief extracts which give f some somo suggestion of ot the things that tho the patient saw Up to this point the zoological visitations had been Intermittent During the the- next few days however however however how how- ever I 1 saw all that tha I could stand I saw such prehistoric creatures as exist nowhere except In museums I 1 saw rats as ns they marched past my door or flew through my windows windows windows win win- dows or floated In my bath tub Elephants strode In and out with lumbering steps and swaying trunks At times they seated 1 themselves themselves' them them- selves selves' arid and rid taunted mo with their thunderous bellows or their car ear earsplitting splitting screeches They flaunted their snouts high In the tho air and guffawed d. Monkeys Jumped from limb to limb In the tho trees ou outside my room Snakes of or all aU colors of ot all descriptions reptiles with fantastic fantastic fantastic fan fan- figures upon their backs and with eyes oyes of ot sapphire or ruby or of or milk white marblo marble wriggled upon the tho floor or crept In or ut of ot heretofore heretofore here here- unseen crevices In the tho walls and dropped Into the water In my tub They swam around and around mo me me squirming under me mo with their tongues tongue darting In and out with fe ferocious ferocious fe- fe activity GIRAFFES CRANED NECKS Giraffes craned their necks around the doorways or through the windows chickens roosted over my head and cackled dogs an and 1 wolves ran around the room barkIng barking bark bark- Ing Inc and snapping pigeons flew Clew from irom one ono corner to another and cooed lions I 1 heard roaring and tigers 1 saw while they opened 1 their mouths like huge huse cats In silent angry disapproval licking ticking their whiskers and whetting their paws softly and daintily this daintily this and far r more I taw saw crocodiles In droves tat roves fat scaly glistening b beasts they were with froth frothy foaming ja jaws Ion long sweeping s tails crouching upon or 01 creeping along the foot root of or m my bathtub bath hath bathtub tub or my bell bed bed or 01 grinding their their yellow teeth In gluttonous anger er as the they contemplated me their me-their their I pre prey I I saw the reeking slippery bod body of a crocodile slide Into the tho water water water wa wa- ter of or my tub then as I shrank In breathless horror to escape 1 I saw w his gree greedy filmy eyes rise to tho surface with his cold foul toul chin flush Clush with mine Ills I Icy C beak touched my cheek cheek the the hot vapor from his lungs seared scared m rny my flesh Clesh I r turned as cold as Ice and trembled like a leaf leat In a storm |