Beaver County News | 1920-12-22 | Page 1 | The Merry Muse

THE MERRY MCSE Tobacco Next to Go What a horrible world it is getting to be Nothing but cranks and efficiency J. Nothing for fun In the world is done, But each solemn fool Has some brand new rule For putting the sad old earth to school. The prig and the prude and the ass eugenic Turn all to class-room or to clinic, And woe to him With no purpose grim, But who dares to play. In this serious day, And laugh and grow fat in the kind old way. With buttons and badge and with uniform, The busybodies strut and swarm, And poke and pry, With prurient eye, Lest too gay the dance, Or the new romance Be too much like what they read in France. To take the laugh out of human laughter Is what these solemn owls are after; It's up to you, Or they'll take It too, And one by one All our joys be gone, The way of the grape and the mastodon.