Life — January 20, 1921 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LOCAL GOSSIP HE folks give « donation party to Parson Whip- ple t’other evenin’ an’ hed refreshmints and sech like and it turned aout to be considerbul doin’s Sophronie Ford hed writ a poem fer the occasion and she read it off. It went somethin’ like this: We all air come a-bearin’ gifts. Some hed to walk and some gut lifts. To show our love these gifts we give So Parson Whipple through the winter kin live. Sarah Ann Bates had heerd Sophronie wuz up to somethin’ Postmistress, an’ readin’ sech a lot, she thought she would show ‘em, so she pulled out a paper, and let ‘em have it: Reloved Parson, we presents bring, Rich pie, To keep the Idin’ an ev'ry thing, fed when snow storms come thick, ‘st you'll hey somethin’ in your stummick Waal, they sent ‘em off to the Rock Hill Bugle an’ they’air goin’ to print ‘em pretty soon. The Donation Party wuz a grand success, the parson jinin’ in the speakin’ without no practicin’ in varse: Beloved Brethren so good to me, You feed me pie and poetrec No lovelier spot hes any leopard Than Rock Hill is to your thankful shepherd, (To be continued in our next.) Appreciation ALL have our pet little talents which we are willing to expose for the small sum of appreciation. And that makes society. If a man were born absolutely without talent and yet enjoyed it, displayed by another; if he could look upon it, not from the instructed critical point of view but rather weighing it by comparing it with his own personal incapability, and therefore register observable appreciation artistic temperaments would frown upon him, critics would laugh at him, but society would smother him, Questions That Ought to Be Answered UR disabled soldiers, many of them without support and others unable to secure proper recognition or relief from the government, appear to have been forgotten. So fast does the world move, that they have all dropped out of sight. The question arises, Who is to blame? Is it due to the apathy of the people, or to the incompetence of Congress ? If, on the average, there are better writers in England than in America, to what cause is this due? One able observer, familiar with the public-school system of both countr that it is not possible to write well unless one knows how to read, because otherwise the value of words is not brought out; and that reading aloud is thoroughly taught in the English schools, but not in Ameri Is this the reason ? Can Sundays he blue unless they are also red and white ? Part of your last year’s income went to pay your income tax on the income of the previous year. While you were pay- ing it did you also save up enough to pay next year’s income tax on this year’s income? If not, and if meanwhile you are thrown out of a job or lose your money, what will you do ? How many people have thought of this ? Say that out of every one hundred business men, ninety-nine ute honest and patriotic and absolutely necessary to the welfare of the country as a whole, while one is dishonest and trying to cheat the government. Why should the ninety and nine be made to suffer for the sins of the one? Man is said to be born of woman. If clothes make the man, why don't the women make all the clothes ? The pessimist is always trying to dig a grave, and the optimist to erect a building. Political economists are constantly wondering why women spend so much money buying clothes in order to compete with Is it better to have a cemetery or a town ? one another, while mothers wonder why nations spend so much on suits of armor for the same reason. jentical ? Are the two motives The Next War Then it was a hand-to-hand fight? Sure was. We withheld our fire until the enemy were only eighty-seven and a half miles away. IRST SOLDIER: SECOND Sounter: Lone bay | ALLIANCE Bolshevist: CONGRATULATIONS | AFTER YOU'RE THROUGIL THEY'LL BE READY FOR ME, comicbooks.com