Life — June 17, 1920 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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

There Is a Bitter Cup HERE is a bitter cup which, bravely drained, Brings peace of heart beyond the dreams of men; Who drinks that offered cup no more is pained By little griefs of earth, nor feels again The stabs of hate, the hurt of trust betrayed. The cut of slander, failure’s stinging blows. He walks life-ways serene and unafraid, And never more the fears of men he knows; For he who drinks of grief supreme has won Perpetual freedom from a thousand ills, As peaks forever set to star and sun Heed not the wailing of the valley rills: Who bravely drinks that bitter cup shall know The calm of deeps where storm winds never blow! Arthur Wallace Peach. Poker Talk R. CHARLES W. ELIOT, President: Emeritus of Harvard University, inventor of the Five-foot Bookshelf, and for fifty years foremost American authority on education, declares that the Military Academy at West Point needs immediate investigation and drastic reorganization, since the training it has been giving to the officers of the United States army did not withstand the test of tual warfare. He asserts that “the red-tape methods prescribed to the regular American army in peace times and the acquired habit among regular American army officers of ‘passing the buck? were very mischievous.” ssing the buck”? And the elderly gentleman who thus drops into poker talk has long been known as the master of style. Does Dr. Eliot's use of these words indicate his belief that the time has TOMMY: KNOWS: AN AVIATOR arrived at last when this technicality of the card table has been THE ENVY OF THE GANG elevated from the vernacular of the camp and prom the vocabulary of the colle; Well, if it is so prom will not be lonely in the English of the undergraduate, for it wi itself companioned by “chip in,” by “stand pat.” by “bluff,” “four-flusher "and by “cold feet”—all of them understoc upon a time only by poker players. “ Bluff,” indeed, has won its into French, the most precise and punctilious of modern tong: Was Dr. Eliot aware that draw poker is believed to hav« improved (from a less scientific game) by Jefferson Davis, when he was an officer of the regular army and not long after he had be graduated from West Point? Or is Dr. Eliot's adoption of the t “passing the buck,” due solely to his recognition of its felicity and of its force? The meaning it conveys tersely could not be as aptly expressed in a dozen or a score of other words. And that it wld have found favor in the eyes of a master of English is testi to the persistent popularity of poker here in the United Poker follows the flag; and it is likely to flourish as long as t flies o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. “Tell me what a man eats,” said a sage of old, “and Tw you what he is”; and of to-day will tell you what a1 is, when he has acquainted himself with the national game. ( is proof enough that the English in’their little island are hurry; that they like to be leisurely and to arrest the process the equinoxes for the solemn rite of afternoon tea; and that hi are quite willing to devote themselves to a game which may ¢ its activities over two or three days—like a fascinating serial to be continued in our next. Baseball came into its own in at clime, where folks want a quick decision and lively details, 1 Tuitice ohithe Peacesct Gee VoL WACO a PEAEAS play and headwork, And poker—but the proper appreciatic WEDDING TRIP AND WILL ALWAYS BE HAPPY, AND DON'T FOK- poker would take too long. Besides, it isn't simply a game of « GET TO DROP IN ANY TIME YOU NEED ME AGAIN —it’s a series of problems in applied psychology. comicbooks.com