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Show Wasted Effort. It is said that a California poet was -badly handled by his wife because, he neglected to support the family. When they asked for bread he gave-them gave-them a sonnet, and when they clamored clam-ored for pie he came across with a,, madrigal. Nevertheless, It doesn't seem qutto--right for his wife to reach over and snatch tufts from his cranium cover and batter his shins with bench-made bench-made shoes and crack his slats with a broom handle. That sort of treatment treat-ment doesn't bring results. A poet with a black eye and a twisted neck and a dented kneepan is no more useful use-ful than a poet in perfect order. What the lady should do would bo to have her poet hubby pick up some side trade that would promise financial finan-cial -esults as they did in Indiana, where you will find the baker writes poetry and so do the hairdresser and the motorman and the bartender. But there is no use attempting to club money out of a poet. |