Judge — November 5, 1921 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

An Old Love Letter By RicHARD LE GALLIENNE i WAS reading a letter of yours to-day, The date—O a thousand years ago! The postmark is there—the month was May: How, in God’s name, did I let you go? What wonderful things for a girl to say! And to think that I hadn’t the sense to know What wonderful things for a man to hear: O still beloved, O still most dear. “Duty” I called it, and hugged the word Close to my side, like a shirt of hair: You laughed, I remember, laughed like a bird, And somehow I thought that you didn’t care. Duty!—and Love, with her bosom bare! No wonder you laughed, as we parted there— Then your letter came with this last good-by : And I sat splendidly down to die. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER Nor Duty, nor Death, would have aught of me: “He is Love’s,” they said, ‘the can- not be ours.” And your laugh pursued me o’er land and sea, And your face like a thousand thousand flowers. “Tis her gown!” I said to each rust- ling tree, “She is coming!” I said to the whispered showers: But you came not again, and this let- ter of yours Is all that endures—all that en- dures. These aching words—in your swift firm hand, That stirs me still as the day we met— That now ’tis too late to understand, Say “hers is the face you shall ne’er forget”; That though Space and Time be as shifting sand, We can never part—we are meet- ing yet. This song, beloved, where’er you be, Your heart shall hear and shall an- swer me. Incidentals By KATHERINE NEGLEY PRISCILLA was a model. She posed in all styles of corsets, and she showed off silk hose and lingerie of the latest designs and fashions. The advertising manager had no difficulty in selling the advertise- ments to magazines and newspapers and the readers turned to the adver- tising sheets first. Of course, the corsets, hose and lingerie were only incidentals. Well, anyway, before the present frank styles, it was that way. According to Relativi Professor—An apple falling upon Newton gave him the idea of his Theory of Gravity. Student—Suppose he had been sit- ting under a cocoanut tree. The Millennium “Ts the world getting better?” “I believe it is, by heck. Hain’t been a senator shot by a woman fer the longest time.”