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MISS LULA BETT. .
By Zona Gale. D. Appleton & Co.
Miss Lulu Bett, austerely tall,
Was Mrs. Deacon’s maiden sister,
The household drudge, the butt of all
The Deacons—Mrs., Miss and Mr.,
These Deacons, decent, stupid folk,
Were often kind; but, oh I poor
Lulul
Their slights to her might well pro
voke
The indignation of a Zulu.
Now Mr. Deacon’s brother came
To visit them, and while he tarried,
This person, Ninian by name,
And Lulu suddenly were married.
But luckless Lulu soon returned.
Her mate had owned a strange mis
giving :
He’d had a former wife, she learned,
Who might, for all he knew, be liv
ing.
Then Deacon, fearing scandal, spread
The lie that Ninian had merely
Deserted Lulu, newly wed—
Which damaged Lulu’s pride se
verely.
But Truth entombed will rise anew.
The missing wife was shortly heard
from;
A better fellow married Lu;
And Deacon—not another word
■from!
THE GOLF COURSE OF REPUB
LICS.
“I see,” said the first golfer, “that
this man Harding, whoever he is, is
just the opposite of what that man
Wilson was. Wilson played his own
game without interference. Harding
can’t do a thing without taking his
morning lesson from the profession
als.’’
“That’s the whole trouble with our
system of running a government," re
plied the second golfer. “They start
in by slicing the ball all over the
course. Then everybody gets tired of
seeing ’em slice, and in order to cor
rect the fault they begin to pull.”
“Well, they manage to hole out
eventually.”
“But think of tho rotten score they
make.”
ONLY A GLANCE?
Over steaming teacups the two
. damsels sat and talked. The conver
sation turned upon an unfortunate in
dividual who had incurred the disfa
vor of one of them.
“No, I necer did like him,” she said.
“Why, when he used to ’write me
glowing love letters I would only
glance over once.
“Only once, dear?”
“Well—-er—occasionally when I
couldn’t make out his scrawl, I would
glance over them the second time.
“Indeed!” said the other maiden,
“and was that all?”
“Except sometimes at night, I would
take them from under my pillow and
read them just to kill time.”
“And that was the end?"
“Yes,” was the reply; “only on rainy
days I used to look over them again
just to see how silly a man can be
when he starts writing love letters.
But I only glanced over them, dear.
I never did like him.”—Tit-Bits.
September, 1920
A SHORTAGE.
LIFE Idea Manufacturing and Re
fining Company, New York, N. Y.
Gentlemen: On account of the
present shortage of the idea crop, due
to the steady advance in cost of in-
digestibles and the absence of cheap
stimulants from the market, I am
compelled to announce a one-hun-
dred-per-cent advance on all ideas I
may ship you hereafter. This ap
plies to both raw and crude ideas.
New prices to be in effect immedi
ately.
Very truly yours,
H. U. Morrus.
A TWOSOME.
Mashie: I hear that Niblick and his
wife are going to separate.
Putter: Yes, I know; she can’t stand
it. He’s always beating her.
Mashie: Beating her? Terrible!
Putter: No! Just golf [—Passing
Show.
RAILROAD PRONUNCIATION.
The conductor and a brakeman on
a Montana railroad differ as to the
proper pronunciation of the name
Eurelia. Passengers are often star
tled upon arrival at this station to
hear the conductor yell: “You’re aliar!
You're a liar!” Then from the brake-
man at the other end comes the cry:
“You really are! You really are!”
—Boston Transcript.
THE RUMOR.
“It’s just an idle rumor.”
“Well, my wife’s bridge club is in
session. If those ladies get hold of
that idle rumor, they’ll soon put it to
work.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
So thus in spite of all the fates,
Miss Lulu Bett, though far from
flirty,
Within three months had found two
mates,
Which isn’t bad at four and thirty.
And what is more, Miss Zona Gale
With humor, truth and mental
clearness
Has done a homely, human tale
That’s worth a ton of Russian
dreariness.
—Arthur Guiterman.
Capital City Soda Co.
261 Peachtree Street
P. LAINAS, Proprietor
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