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Show Climbing Up. "Art In America la not respected," aald Arthur Stringer, the poet and nevelist. "What ico does a poet cut among us compared with a Kockefel ler or a Carnegie? "Poets are rated Incredibly low here. As I reclined In a hammock poetizing on a farm lawn last week, a tramp approached aud asked the farmer's wife for pie. "She gave him pie, and, while he ate, they conversed. I heard a snatch of their conversation. "'You say you used to be a poet? said the woman. " 'Ycs'm, replied the tramp. 'That's bow I got my start.'" Not Disorderly. "So you have been to the art exhibit?" exhib-it?" "Yea, and 1 found several Whistlers there." "You don'a eay! Why don't a guard put them out?" Birmingham Ag Herald. At the Railway Restaurant. "What shall I orih r for lunch?" "Since you need Iron In your blood, why not order some railroad frogs?" |