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The main difference between them lies -in the fact that his appetite for girl-flesh had its limitations, but the -appetite of the city had none. From this vast charnel house of hopes, -beliefs and ideals files upward a steady stream of damned souls that once -belonged to women-children, pure in thought and deed. The crushing of one -or a thousand of these “wee modest crimson-tipped flowers” beneath the -ploughshares of city life and temptation excites only passing remark. - -The girl of the city has much more actual animation than her sister -of the country. This is due to the food that is eaten and the social -conditions of excitement that surround her. The country girl lives upon -plain food and has normal hours of rest and relaxation. She does not -encounter the sights or sounds that would tend to divert her attention -from high thoughts to matters forbidden. - -Such sights and sounds are never absent from the city girl. She cannot -go into the business part of the city and walk two blocks without -being reminded of her sex. Men eye her with glances of suggestion and -invitation. - - * * * * * - -You don’t have to go to West Point for strategy. A negro preacher in his -pulpit one Sunday said he had a few remarks to make before the collection -basket made its peregrination. - -“Now, brethren and sisters,” he began, “there is just one brethren here -that is untrue to his church, untrue to his Lord—and worst of all, untrue -to his wife. Unless he puts a five dollar bill into the contribution box -I will be compelled to call his name out.” - -When the basket had returned and a recount had been made, the books -showed forty-two five dollar bills and a two dollar bill with a note -pinned to it saying, “I will hand you the other three in the morning. -Please don’t give me away.” - - * * * * * - -“Only a Mother Could Love a Prohibitionist’s Face.” That is the -inscription which appeared on one of the banners in the Anti-Dry parade -which I had the pleasure of witnessing in New York City while en-route -back from the big fight which ye editor attended. - - * * * * * - -Around Robbinsdale they get up early. Two farmers, jealous of their -rising records, became boastful and one allowed as how he got up before -three o’clock. The other rose at two the next morning and called at his -neighbor’s house, hoping to find him in bed. The farmer’s wife came to -the door. - -“Where is your husband?” inquired the sleuth. - -“Why, he was around here early this morning, but I don’t know where he is -now.” - - * * * * * - -Gus, our hired man, insists that Deacon Kingdon is a good shot. - -“He is so good with his gun that he hit the bull’s-eye the first time,” -Gus exclaimed. - -“Very good,” exclaimed Maggie, our cook. - -“Yes, but he had to pay for the bull.” - - * * * * * - -Pinkham’s Home Broo - -Pursue a wild bull frog thirteen miles, carefully gathering the hops. -Then add: - -Ten gallons pickle brine - -Two quarts shellac - -One bar home-made soap - -One pint sweet spirits of nitre. - -Boil mixture three weeks, then strain through an I. W. W. sock to prevent -mixture from working. Bottle and add one jackass to each pint to give it -the proper kick. - - * * * * * - -This Is For Railroaders - -Casey, a section boss on the Great Northern railway, in making his report -to the superintendent, used considerable profanity, so the superintendent -said: “Casey, I have lady stenographers here and if you must use that -profanity, after this you must write your own reports.” “A train from -Duluth came lickety skoot and passed me hand car by. Some son of a gun -left open a switch and it piled them ten cars high.” - - * * * * * - -Georges Carpenter lost a battle last July, but he won a greater prize -than the golden purse and the coveted belt offered at Jersey City. The -handsome Frenchman showed America the smile of Napoleon; the stoical -smile of defeat. - -As one of the multitude witnessing the brief clash of France and America -at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, permit me to remark that Carpentier =_did not_= -live up to his reputation as great pugilistic champion, but he more than -met his reputation as a great red-blooded gentleman. - -The American won, but the applause usually due the winner was lost in the -outburst of surprise of the multitude. Carpentier, instead of hanging his -head at the defeat of his hopes and aspirations for the title, hid his -sorrow behind a great big boyish smile. He wore that smile through the -blood-stained rounds, and it radiated as the gong clanged. - -The soul of fighting France was behind that smile; the same as the smile -of Napoleon as he handed over his army to Wellington at Waterloo, and -the likeness of Joffre at the first battle of the Marne. It puzzled -his primitive opponent. Dempsey was bewildered—his face revealed his -knowledge that behind that smile was a superior intellectual being. - - * * * * * - -=_What good is alimony on a cold night?_= - - * * * * * - -Many who “kiss and make up” don’t like the taste of the “make-up.” - - - - -_Doug’s Peacock Walk_ - -BY RICHMOND - - -What are the personal peculiarities of film people? In view of the fact -that it is our bounden duty to torment, dilate and comment upon ye people -of the screen, it behooves us to stop now and then to observe what they -are and how they become that way, aside from being good looking, drawing -big money and getting divorced. - -Let’s get right down to business. Take Allan Dwan, a well known director. -Dwan doesn’t hate himself any more than the law provides for. In fact, -there is no reason Dwan should despise himself. He was a good electrical -engineer; became interested in pictures and makes various flurries of -coin according to the Angels who can be dug up to back his ventures. - -Dwan formerly was a good athlete. He is powerfully constructed but -noticeably short. About the studios it is well understood that one of the -few faults Dwan finds with himself is that he isn’t just up to his own -personal idea of tallness. If he has a tender spot, it hinges upon this -item of feet up and down. Someone conceived the idea that in order to tab -him “Napoleon.” But that line of bull has been overdone and so another -gag had to be hatched up. “The Big Little Man,” that is what those in -close touch with Dwan call him when they desire to make a favorable -impression. “The Big Little Man,” that’s a good title—better than some of -the ones that appear on Dwan’s pictures and a lot of other pictures. - -Thus we dispose of Mr. Dwan, a cocky, brainy, peppy little fellow whose -only regret is that he should be a little longer. Next we will consider -Mr. Fairbanks, Mary’s present husband, barring every state in the Union -but Nevada—and Nevada isn’t quite certain that Mary is still married to -Owen Moore. Doug likes to tread about with his gang of retainers at his -heels. Fairbanks cottons to the custom, styles and bequeathments of the -English sporting gentlemen who stalked abroad with a company of idol -worshippers. - -Doug is not always the most distinguished looking of his company. At any -event, he frequently is not the most noticeable. It was Fairbanks that -discovered the now famous Bull Montana, who doubles for monkeys when one -is required in the cast and whose ability to take punishment one time -resulted in nine fire hoses being turned on him at once as he was swept -down the gutter. - -When Doug Fairbanks and Bull Montana walk down the street together -the Bull “takes it away from him,” as they say in the pictures when a -subservient character grabs the best of the scene from the star. Bull -has a face, at once fearsome and fascinating. He is so ugly that crowds -follow him around. It is a frequent spectacle in Los Angeles to see -Fairbanks, Bull Montana, Spike Robinson, Crooked Nosed Murphy, Benny -Zeidmann, the press agent de luxe, and Mark Larkin, Fairbanks’ special -representative, beating it down the broad. Of course, Doug always struts -in front, while the others in platoon formation tread proudly in the -rear. The only place where Doug falls down is that some of his gang look -funnier than Doug acts on the screen and the big star stands a chance of -being overlooked in the “what the h—is coming here” attitude that rends -the atmosphere as the Fairbanks battalion bears down upon the multitude. -Yes, Doug likes to lead his gang into the big hotel corridors, where his -cohorts then fade gracefully into the oblivion necessary to leave Doug -alone in his solitude for the yokels to admire and wonder at. You gotta -hand it to Doug for rushing in with his gang and then giving them the -fade away sign at the psychological moment. - -Lottie Pickford—we have thought out loud a time or two before in these -columns about Lottie. Unlike the demure Mary, Lottie likes the jazz -stuff, the bright lights and some good looking young dude hanging around -her. We never saw Lottie chew tobacco, but she can stow away a lot of the -“grape.” - -If we had our decision to make as regards Lottie’s chief peculiarity we -would say that her idea is to be thoroughly known as Mary’s sister by -doing things that Mary doesn’t. Lottie isn’t the first contrary girl, -though, who can claim to be of famous family. There was Miss Roosevelt -and later Mrs. Longworth. Didn’t the colonel himself call long and loudly -for commodious families? And did you ever read that his daughter attained -any particular fame aside from smoking cigarettes and not rearing -children? - -If you are a sort of a junior member of a family and fear that you will -be overshadowed by some relative, cast for a famous mold, one way to -attract attention is to copy the other one—backwards. - -We come to Fatty—Roscoe Arbuckle. Roscoe’s peculiarity just now is to -have people try and forget that his name is Fatty. Roscoe is getting -dignified. He has half a dozen cars, just because people came to know him -as “Fatty Arbuckle” and paid a lot of dough to see him. Just where Fatty -expects to promote himself by being Roscoe passeth understanding. Surely -he doesn’t think that he could act seriously without being thought funny. -Perhaps Fatty is subtle. He may have tired of drawing laughs as a result -of acting natural and figures he may get as many more by trying not to -appear natural. - -Now we are down to Mr. Griffith. Mr. Griffith, to our notion, is a -great director. But Mr. Griffith is more or less deftly endeavoring -to implant the idea in the public mind that he is a poet. That is Mr. -Griffith’s peculiarity. He would not be seen much in public; rather he -seeks to attract attention by remaining in seclusion. His well organized -staff and his actors and actresses, who like him much, never pass up an -opportunity to breathe it about that “Mr. Griffith is a poet.” - -We never read any of David’s verses, but if he is a poet, it devoutly is -to be desired that there were more poets and fewer directors operating in -pictures. - -After all, these little peculiarities or hobbies of the picture people -are not harmful to any one in particular. We all like to strut and fluff -and show our fine feathers. It’s human nature. - - * * * * * - -We’ll Say So! - -While Al. Jolson, the black-face comedian, was touring the Pacific Coast -with his latest starring vehicle, “Sinbad,” he visited the California -insane asylum, at Napa. Passing through one of the wards he noticed a -rather neat chap and asked the attendant the nature of the fellow’s -trouble. - -The attendant told the comedian that it was a new case. Had only arrived -the previous day. - -Jolson approached the patient and inquired “If you had only one wish in -the world, and it would be granted, what would you wish for?” - -The patient looked at Jolson and said, “I’d wish that Volstead was born -with a thirst!” - -With a smile Jolson replied, “You might have been crazy when they brought -you here yesterday, brother, but you’re talking good sense today!” - - * * * * * - -Our Traffic Cop - -Thomas Patrick Gallagher, typical Irish traffic copper, was stationed on -Madison street in Chicago at the point intersected by the River. - -One bustling Saturday afternoon, Gallagher held up his hand to halt -traffic for the draw bridge. In front of him was a new handsome limousine -motor car. - -While waiting for the bridge to close, a runabout flivver crashed into -the rear end of the handsome car. - -Gallagher was on the job promptly and hustled over to the driver of the -flivver. - -“Phwat in hal does yez mane by smashing into this handsome car? Haven’t -you got any eyes?” he bellowed at the meek and humble driver, “Are -you crazy? I’ve a good mind to take you down to the headquarters, you -blithering idiot. What’s your name?” continued Gallagher, as he extracted -a pencil and notebook from his pocket, “What is the number of your car?” - -The answer came back in typical Gaelic, “Me name is Clancy.” - -“Clancy,” replied Gallagher. “Clancy, what part of Ireland are you from, -what county?” - -“I am from County Mayo.” - -“County Mayo,” continued the traffic officer, “County Mayo, say Clancy, -stay here just a minute till I go ahead to that big car and see why in -the devil he backed into you.” - - * * * * * - -Ikey’s Recklessness - -Ikey, eleven years of age and of unmistakable Hebrew persuasion, was -taken out of school and put to work in a nearby store, where he was -rewarded with the princely honorarium of a dollar and a half per week. -For the first three weeks, Ikey brought home the pay envelope on Saturday -night and turned it over to his mother. On the fourth Saturday, however, -he was five cents short. - -“Ikey,” said his mother, “where is that other nickel?” - -“I need that nickel, ma,” replied Ikey. - -For the next three weeks this dialogue was repeated when the week’s -pay was turned in. The following Saturday Rachel had further cause for -suspicion, for there was only $1.40 in the pay envelope. - -“Ikey,” she said, “what have you done with that dime?” - -“Ma,” said Ikey, “I had to have that dime myself.” - -“Now, Ikey, tell your mother the truth; are you going with a woman?” - - * * * * * - -Overwhelmingly - -A member of Congress recently became a parent. On announcing the news the -doctor exclaimed gleefully: “I congratulate you, sir; you are the father -of triplets.” - -The congressman was astonished. - -“No, no, no,” he replied, with more than parliamentary emphasis, “there -must be some mistake in the returns. I demand a recount!” - - * * * * * - -Cassidy’s Routing - -Employed in the Great Northern yards in Minneapolis is a switchman whom -we will call Cassidy. - -One day Cassidy entered the superintendent’s office without removing his -cap or pipe. - -“I want a pass to Duluth,” he said. - -His evident show of disrespect peeved the superintendent. “Well, Mr. -Cassidy, you haven’t approached me in quite the proper manner,” he -answered gruffly. “Here you have your cap on your head and your clay pipe -stuck in your mouth. Do you believe this is showing proper respect for -your superior officer? If you desire a pass to Duluth, you must leave -this office at once, walk around for an hour or two, and come back. As -you step in my office, you will ask for the superintendent of the Great -Northern; I will reply, ‘I am the superintendent of the Great Northern, -what can I do for you?’” - -Cassidy promptly departed. He had been gone about an hour, when he came -back, pipe in his pocket and cap in his hand. He walked briskly into the -superintendent’s office and inquired in a rather superior manner, “Are -you the superintendent of the Great Northern?” - -“I am, what can I do for you?” was the reply. - -“You can go to hell, I’ve got a pass over the Northern Pacific.” - - * * * * * - -It is always good to be nice, but not always nice to be good. - - - - -_Limber Kicks_ - - -Bow Wow - - This is so the entire world through, - You imagine a maiden loves yough— - Like the wind bends the bough, - You are bent by the rough, - Then left and forsaken—bough-wough. - - * * * * * - - Before marriage, - With wondrous care, - She seeks the mirror - And bangs her hair. - - After marriage, - With angry glare, - She grabs her slipper - And bangs her heir. - - * * * * * - -Ask Bob He Knows - - A miss is as good as a mile, - A kiss is as good as a smile, - But four painted kings - Are the beautiful things - That are good for the other man’s pile. - - * * * * * - - The ballet’s not the drawing card - That once it used to be. - Ah! when it dies, may some good bard - Indite its L. E. G. - - * * * * * - - “How do you like codfish balls?” - I said to sister Jenny. - “Well, really May, I couldn’t say, - I have never been to any.” - - * * * * * - - Poor Lot’s wife turned to salt, alas! - Her fate was most unkind. - No doubt she only wished to see - How hung her skirt behind. - - * * * * * - -The Power of the “Press” - -“Now, girls,” warned the Sunday School teacher, “I want to caution you -against making friends with the new barber who has just opened a shop -in the village. A friend of mine who knew him in the town where he was -reared tells me he tries to make love to every girl he calls on.” - -“The girls in this burg are sure friendly,” confided the new barber to -one of his patrons two days later. “Last night I took a stroll around the -town and every girl I met smiled at me.” - - * * * * * - - The lightning flashed, the lightning crashed, - The skies were rent asunder, - With shriek and wail loud blew the gale, - And then it rained like thunder. - - * * * * * - -Wall, I Calc’late! - -“Well, Si,” asked the justice of the peace of the lone constable, “what -is this man charged with?” - -“Bigotry,” answered Si. “He’s got three wives.” - -“By gosh, Si,” exclaimed his honor, “where’s your education? That ain’t -bigotry, that’s trigonometry!” - - * * * * * - -We’d Say So - -When a young man with his arm around a girl lets a lighted cigarette fall -inside his sport shirt and it feels like a drop of ice water, it is time -either to propose or go home. - - * * * * * - -Female detectives should be good lookers. - - - - -_Naughty New York!_ - - -It looks like a pretty dreadful affair all the way ’round to me; here’s -Mrs. Lydig Hoyt says that skirts gotta come down because the girls are -wearing them to the ankles in Paris; but here’s little Betty Compson, the -movie princess, says they are not to come down—not even to the ankles. - -“It’s the movie girls and not Parisian professional models nor New York -society women who make the fashions for America,” says Betty. Which, -when you come to think about it, is a terrible slam for Mrs. Hoyt—an -intimation that she is not considered a regular movie queen, in spite of -the fact that she shook the pink teas of the Four Hundred for a part in -Norma Talmadge’s company, and is now about to burst into the world of art -with a company of her own. - -The truth is, New York society women have apparently gone dippy over -getting into the movies. - -The other day I was out at the Griffith studio at Marmaroneck watching a -starving mob in rags crying for bread in the streets of ancient Paris. -Among the actors there was one who stood out. She was a shriveled old -woman with thin hands and haggard eyes. Her clothes were torn half off, -showing her shrunken breasts and bony shoulders. When “D. W.” gave the -signal for the action to begin, she fairly made you feel the agony of her -hunger. - -When there came, at last, an interval in the work, she beckoned to a maid -who stood near the set. “Go out to the yacht and get me my cigarette -case,” she said. - -It turned out that the old lady was a very rich woman with a garage -filled with imported automobiles and a steam yacht. She just had the -“itch” to act in the movies. - -It’s a little secret that is giggled up and down Fifth avenue that one of -the “extra girls” in the ball room scene in “Way Down East” was Evelyn -Walsh, who is considered to be the richest unmarried woman in the world. -Mrs. Morgan Belmont was also in the same picture. - -Perhaps it was the movies that did it; but anyhow, times have changed -in the old Four Hundred in New York. It is only the Texas oil -millionairesses who continue to elevate the haughty nose in mid-air and -give you a far-away stare. - -Mrs. Belmont, when I saw her in a picture studio, was sitting on the edge -of a piece of scenery, smoking a cigarette that she had borrowed from -a stage hand. She was excitedly debating an exciting question. She was -contending that Jack Dempsey could have licked Jack Johnson when the big -dinge was at his very best. - -It happened that I sat in a business conference with Anne Morgan the -other day. She was the most simple and democratic person present. She -sat still and listened until every one else had expressed his opinion. -Finally she threw away the butt of her cigarette and said abruptly, “Look -here. We are all talking around in circles and getting nowhere.” Then she -stated the case with the directness and clarity of a corporation lawyer. -“You know,” she said in explanation, “My father was a banker.” I wonder -if she thought she was telling anybody any news! J. Pierpont Morgan was -the said father. - -Mrs. Morgan Belmont isn’t likely to squeeze Mary Pickford out of her -job. She was just in pictures on account of her name. In the case of -Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, however, it is different. She is really a marvelously -beautiful woman and may go far in the cinema. - -Like most of the women in society, she is sick of gadding around tea -parties. This stuff may be all right in F. Scott Fitzgerald flapper -novels, but gets wearisome in real life. - -Speaking of F. Scott Fitzgerald, I understand that Princeton University -is so vexed with this youthful prodigy that he discreetly omits the -usual dutiful visits to his alma mater. What’s ailing Princeton is Mr. -Fitzgerald’s book, “This Side of Paradise,” in which he told some painful -truths about college life. I couldn’t see anything so terrible about it; -but Princeton was touchy. - -In fact, I don’t see how anybody could “stay mad” at this child of -genius. He is really a charming boy. He looks about seventeen, with -those he-vamp blue eyes. I understand that “This Side of Paradise” was -practically his own life, except that he really married the young society -flapper who “trun him down” in the book. She is a very beautiful girl and -the boy genius is obviously crazy about her. - -Another “best seller” who is looking at the tall buildings of New York -is Harold Bell Wright, the sales of whose books have now amounted to -something over 9,000,000 copies. - -The first time I ever saw the illustrious Harold was in Chicago, where he -had come to sell his first books. He was a green little country preacher -from a “riding” circuit in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. He was so -green that a sure-thing man would have been ashamed to sell him gold -bricks. He looked pained when you spoke of writing for money; he said he -only wrote to give a message to the world. I saw him again at the Waldorf -the other day. He has made a couple of million dollars; got a divorce and -a Rolls-Royce and other modern equipment. - -In spite of his enormous success as a best seller, I am told that Harold -has a canker eating at his heart. He grieves because the literary critics -will not take his work seriously, but “kid” him as a “he” Laura Jean -Libbey. - -The other day, New York was electrified by a story that Hearst had -quarreled with Marion Davies and that that attractive young lady was to -cease to be a film star in the Hearst studios. But if there was a row, -Marion must have won the bout. She is not only still the queen at the -studio at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, but her brother-in-law has -just been placed in supreme command. I am told that everything is getting -on with peace and harmony—the kind of peace and harmony where nobody -dares to be the first to leave a group and always walks out of the room -sideways with his back to the wall. - -And now that we are speaking about Hearst—Like all men of brilliant mind, -he has his little eccentricities. His is that he never can find his -automobile. He owns some twenty cars, but never can find one. He brings -his car downtown; forgets it and walks away to the nearest taxicab. -The chauffeur waits around until he knows that W. R. is lost again and -goes home. Wherefore you invariably encounter Hearst riding around New -York in sad and disreputable looking taxicabs. Occasionally, he asks -his subordinates if “anybody knows where I left my automobile.” Hearst, -however, is a man of penetrating intellect. Don’t let anybody tell you -the old yarn about his success being due to his brilliant subordinates. -He has a mind that cuts like a slashing knife. - -To meet him personally, you would think him the newest and meekest -reporter in the Hearst service. He comes into the offices of his hired -men with a shy bashful air and usually says, “I hope I am not in the -way.” But just let them try to disobey his orders and see how meek he is. -Wow! - -Our old friend, Wilbur F. Crafts, the reformer, has spent a busy summer -in New York. He has been horrified in turn over the Dempsey-Carpentier -fight, over the frightful case of some girls who wore one-piece bathing -suits at Atlantic City; over some good respectable families who wanted -to walk down to the beach in their regular clothes, with their bathing -suits underneath and slip off the top layer, thus foiling the bath house -robbers. Wilbur also had a spasm of excitement because Tex Rickard had -some children from Panama giving some exhibitions of swimming in his big -pool in Madison Square Garden. - -Some time ago, in a censorship hearing, I actually heard the Rev. Wilbur -admit that he was wrong. He had presented a bill he wanted passed, -creating a national censorship. One of his friends on the congressional -committee raised his eyes humbly to the chandeliers and said he wanted to -offer a criticism. Rev. Crafts said he always welcomes honest criticism; -he tried to do his humble best, but if wrong, wanted to be corrected; -hence he would yield to the congressional gentleman and accept his -amendment. The amendment was to boost the salary of the job Rev. Crafts -was after from $4,000 to $8,000 a year. He certainly yielded like a -Christian martyr. - -But about these girls and their one-piece suits that shocked Atlantic -City almost beyond human endurance. - -Near Atlantic City is a little strip of beach called Somer’s Point. When -the police chased the Annette Kellermanns off the beach at Atlantic -City, the mayor of Somer’s Point said they could come to his beach, b’ -gosh. And so they went—and so the road around Somer’s Point has been -blocked all summer—and so Mayor Robert Crissey, who is seventy-two, but -has young ideas, is famous. A discreet man is Mayor Crissey, nevertheless. - -After the first Sunday of the girl show, he issued a statement in which -he said he thought one-piece suits were all right. “And,” he added with a -burst of real inspiration, “I am going to buy my wife one just like ’em.” - -Some one has lifted up his voice and wept because, among the other famous -New York gin palaces to go with incoming prohibition, is the far-famed -one formerly run by Tom Sharkey, the old sailor heavy weight fighter. - -Tom was a funny old fellow with not much more than a distant acquaintance -with English grammar and such. - -When he completed his fine saloon, one of his first visitors was his -former manager, Tim McGrath. They looked over the place together. At -length Tim said to him, “Tom, you have a fine place, but there is one -thing more you should do to it.” - -“And what’s that?” said Tom suspiciously. - -“Right here above the entrance you should have a fine big chandelier.” - -“Yeh, I know,” replied Tom, yawning, “But who would I get to play it?” - -That “Garden-of-Eden” party with naked young ladies dancing, outside -of Boston, which cost Adolph Zukor and Hi Abrams, the movie magnates, -$100,000 to quiet, and which may cost the Massachusetts district attorney -his job, was the second time this year the aforesaid magnates have burst -into fame. - -They—at least one of them—is said to have been in the big stud poker -party in which a slick gent with marked cards took in a circle of movie -men for a cool $500,000. They had him arrested, but dropped the case -because the department of public charities of New York set up a claim -for five times the amount of the money lost as a penalty for playing -poker—which is the New York law. - -I can tell you a little secret about that game. That slicker would have -been trimming them yet except for the quick wittedness of Norma Talmadge. - -It was at their home—of herself and her husband, Mr. Schenk—that the game -had been taking place once a week for months. Coming suddenly into the -hall, Norma saw the slick guest slip a pack of cards into his overcoat -pocket and take another pack. She told her husband and the slicker was -caught red-handed. - -Even New York, the town of spenders, gave a little gasp when the “Spanish -Jade” stepped out of Greenwich Village and went shopping on the Avenue. - -The lady’s real name is Elizabeth Darrow. She was the belle of the -village, when a young naval officer named Frederick Linde Ryan blew -in with his new uniform and innocent illusions. He was married to the -“Spanish Jade” and they began housekeeping on Riverside Drive. - -The boy, struggling along on his naval pay, tried patiently and loyally -and uncomplainingly to pay; but his debts soon amounted to $20,000, with -cigarettes at a dollar a pack and chocolates at $5.00 a pound. The other -day the case was brought into court at the instance of one of the boy’s -friends and the court ruled that the boy need not continue further to pay -the bills. - -As a sort of free circus the “Village” does well enough for a little -while; but it would seem a dubious place to find a wife. - - * * * * * - -Thus It Was - -He was young, good looking and had plenty of money. She was also young -and good looking, but lacked the money. Consequently she anxiously -awaited for manifestations of affection. - -“What have you named your new island home?” she inquired one evening, -following his description of the wonderful island he had purchased in a -neighboring lake. - -“Isle of View,” he answered, and has since been wondering what happened -to the young lady to make her throw herself in his arms. - - * * * * * - -There was a cross-eyed judge in Chicago who had three cross-eyed -prisoners brought before him. Turning to the first, he said, “What is -your name?” and the second replied, “James Smith.” Turning to the second, -he said, rather severely, “I wasn’t talking to you.” The third one said, -“I didn’t say anything.” - - * * * * * - -Wife—Mistress—Lady - -_The following is translated from the German, and published in the -Gazette of the Union, February, 1856_: - -Who marries from love takes a wife; who marries for the sake of -convenience takes a mistress; who marries from consideration takes a -lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mistress, tolerated by -your lady. You have a wife for yourself, a mistress for your house and -its friends, a lady for the world. Your wife will agree with you, your -mistress will accommodate you, your lady will manage you. Your wife will -take care of your household, your mistress of your house, your lady of -appearances. If you are sick your wife will nurse you, your mistress will -visit you, and your lady inquire after your health. You take a walk with -your wife, a ride with your mistress, and join parties with your lady. -Your wife will share your grief, your mistress your money, your lady your -debt. If you are dead, your wife will shed tears, your mistress lament, -and your lady wear mourning. A year after death your wife marries again, -in six months your mistress, and in six weeks, or sooner, when mourning -is over, your lady. - - * * * * * - -Wifey’s Lament - -Clarence—“Do you think it will rain?” - -Doris—“What?” - -Clarence—“Say yes.” - -Doris—“I said yes the other day and got myself in grief.” - -Clarence—“When?” - -Doris—“The other day.” - - - - -_Questions and Answers_ - - -=_Dear Cap_=—Are we not all descendants of the monkey? - -No, we are not. My folks came from Wales. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Skipper_=—Can you tell me why a black cow gives white milk that -makes yellow butter?—=_Helen Bach._= - -For the same reason that blackberries are red when they are green. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Bill_=—What do you think of a man who throws a girl a -kiss?—=_Ima Blower._= - -I think he’s the laziest man in the world. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—How do you keep milk from souring?—=_Reggie._= - -Leave it in the cow. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Cap_=—Why is it that professors claim touch to be the most -delicate of all the senses?—=_Hook M. Cowe._= - -Well, here’s why: when you sit on a pin you can’t see it, you can’t hear -it, you can’t taste it—but it is there. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain_=—What is a button?—=_Holly Woode._= - -A small event that always comes off. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—The waiters in our city of Brainerd have just -organized a union and wish you would kindly suggest some sort of a yell -to hand the cooks when they raise the dickens with us.—=_Tillie Olson._= - -My feeble effort: - - Grape nut, Grape nut, - Malta vita force. - Keep your trap closed. - Well, of course. - We want oysters, - Rah! Rah! Rah! - Nabisco wafers - Bah!! - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—I am about to organize a nice little club for -thirsty people. What motto should our organization adopt?—=_Sipper Jin._= - -How about this one: “If you don’t see what you want, ask for it.” - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Billy_=—What were the two most popular ballads of the -American doughboy in France?—=_Mona Long._= - -Before the armistice it was “I Want to Go Home.” Afterwards it was “If -You Want to Go Home, Just Let Them Alone.” - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Billy_=—My father is a motor-man, and my mother is a -conductorette. What am I?—=_Enter Tainem._= - -A transfer. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Cap’n_=—What is a Pomeranian Whiff Sniff?—=_Willack Fulish._= - -A Pomeranian Whiff Sniff is a species of small wooly dog with the curious -habit of trying to climb telegraph poles, hind feet first. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain_=—Being as you are an etiquette expert, I would like to -ask if it is a gentleman’s duty to approach a young lady and tell her -that her eyebrow is on crooked and that she has a speck of soot on her -right ankle?—=_Inquisitive Andy._= - -A gentleman is not supposed to notice the details of a lady’s attire. He -is supposed to be in a state of rapturous admiration of the tout ensemble. - - * * * * * - -=_Captain Billy_=—Is a sallow, pale skin always affected by weak -people?—=_I. M. Payle._= - -Dear Payle—Not always! I know a chap that was very dark, but he found a -pair of dice and right from then he began to fade, and fade and fade. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Skipper Bill_=—Why is a ship always called “She”?—=_M. T. Beane._= - -Probably because the rigging costs more than the hull. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—What is the best way to make both ends meet?—=_Lady -de Barbour._= - -Learn to be a contortionist. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Billy_=—What, in your opinion, does love most -resemble?—=_Georgette._= - -A roast beef sandwich. Two thin slices of sentiment and the rest filled -in with bull. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Billiam_=—What kind of hand does a card sharper win -with?—=_Pokker Feene._= - -An I-deal hand. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Cap_=—Why are eggs much smaller now than in the past?—=_Lee Way._= - -I suppose it’s because they’re taken out of the nest too soon. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—A story in a New York paper says a dancer has -insured her legs for $125,000. What’s the idea?—=_Lew D. Fiske._= - -We don’t know definitely, Lew. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Skipper Bill_=—What war material did Chili export to the Allies -during the war?—=_Clara Voyant._= - -Beans. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Bill_=—If you’re a good little astronomer I know you’ll tell me -what star was recently measured, and found to be of enormous size?—=_May -Triatit._= - -Fatty Arbuckle, I guess. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Captain Willy_=—A waiter in the Waldorf Flaskoria spilled hot soup -down my neck, and when I remonstrated with him, the horrid old thing -only snapped his fingers at me. Have you any words to describe such -creature?—=_Ferdie Nann._= - -I would say that he is too soupercillious. - - * * * * * - -=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—Why is it you farmers always dress your scarecrows -in men’s clothing?—=_Sack Kitt._= - -Well, if we dressed them in women’s clothes there’d be sure to be some -old birds hanging around. - - * * * * * - -A friend of the Whiz Bang who served with the British forces during the -World War sends us the following, which he claims was a favorite song -among the “Limies.” - - When this bloody war is over - Oh, how happy we will be; - No more hiking, no more drilling, - No retreat or reville. - No more shining up brass buttons, - No more asking for a “leave,” - For we’ll tell the sergeant-major - To shove his passes in his sleeve. - - * * * * * - - _I know a young woman called Kitty._ - _In the dance-hall she looks very pretty._ - _But the next day at ten,_ - _If you saw her then—_ - _Oh, my gawd! What a pity!_ - - * * * * * - -Their Specialty - -Written by a dealer in electric washing machines: - -“Don’t kill your wife. Get one of our machines to do the dirty work.” - - * * * * * - -Friend tells us that the way Clinton’s in New Haven advertises the record -is: “Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming with Male Chorus, $1.25.” This ad -was evidently written by the gent who said: “I stand back of every bed I -sell.” - - * * * * * - -With a girl of twenty, marriage is an adventure; at twenty-five, a -career; at thirty, a goal; and at forty, a haven of rest. - - - - -_Whiz Bang Editorials_ - -“_The Bull is Mightier Than the Bullet._” - - -In the old days, to the women fell the task of making gentlemen of the -men, but not now-a-days, according to our friend, Bob Toole, who claims -that the boys keep the girls in line during this grand and glorious age -of jazz. - -In dancing, conversing, playing, courting and “spooning,” the standards -of young boys and girls were fixed in the good old colonial days, by the -girls. Their natural feminine modesty erected sensible social barriers -and the chivalry of men made them sacred and preserved them. - -This order has been changed. Men now fix the standards. Naturally, -they are not as high as they “used to be.” A man is not as particular -in things moral and esthetic as the average girl. The modern man makes -a jazz hound of his lady. The modern girl endures a lot of things she -inherently dislikes. She puts up with annoying behavior just to be a good -fellow. She really doesn’t like this cheek-to-cheek and wiggly dancing; -but she stands for it, for she is too good a scout to be a kill-joy. And -just because she is such a good fellow about it, the men—good-hearted -fools!—become less lax in their behavior until they unconsciously impose -on good nature. - -Fellows, we’re going back again to the standards set by the natural -modesty and sweet reserve of the girls! And we’re going to like it, too! - -With wine gone, a “powerful” incentive to excessive “good fellowship” -has been removed. With equal suffrage a fact, girls will unconsciously -resent extreme impositions on their fine comradeship. There is certain -to be a good natured reaction on a part of the ladies. They are going -to set new standards. Not by law; by sweet common sense. Femininity -will never revert to prudery, but girls are going to amend sensibly -that “go-as-far-as-you-like” policy of good fellowship so that men will -realize girls are less common and more wonderful than ever before. - -And, we repeat, we’ll like it. - -Go to it, girls! Make us be good! - - * * * * * - -An Ohio editor allows that a man in Columbus got himself into a ton of -trouble by marrying two women without the formality of divorce from the -first. A Western observer points out that a good many men in that section -had gotten that way by marrying just one. A Southern editor has retorted -by alleging that quite a few of his friends found trouble enough by -merely promising to marry without going any further. And an old doughboy -friend of ours collected a goodly surplussage of grief when he was simply -found in company with another man’s wife. - - * * * * * - -If two souls are happily mated, there is no reason why either should live -in or refer to the past. Their Eden is in the present and the future of -what may be and not what has been. The man or woman should be sacredly -silent about the dead past, unless there is some person or something -which sooner or later may rise to bring darkness or death. The Bible -basis of marriage is a love which takes for better or worse the heart -which it calls its own. People ought not to marry unless they are so -devoted to each other that any later knowledge of what either may have -been or done would make no difference. - -Man’s inhumanity to woman is often earthly, selfish and devilish. Women -are naturally and generally better than men. If they err, it is usually -the man’s fault. The average young man is fortunate to secure any girl to -live with him as his wife. Keep still and ask no questions is the wise -way. There is no double moral standard for speech or silence for man or -woman. At the marriage altar, heaven demands no more of the woman than of -the man. That a woman should tell the past to a man who insists, though -it is none of his business, or that she should persist in confessing to -him when he does not care to hear it, is a piece of folly of which some -women are guilty. Where ignorance is bliss “’tis folly to be wise.” After -marriage it will do no good to tell what you said and did before. There -are many homes now happy, as if made under the wings of the angels, whose -members at one time left the paradise of innocence and wandered beneath -a roofless world. - -Love is blind. A true and genuine lover does not want to hear a girl’s -past; and if he did hear it from her own or another’s lips, it would -make no difference to him. If any one is to tell let it be the man, for -usually it is the woman and not he who runs the risk of a past. Let the -man confess who places the material above the mental and moral and thinks -of a wife as a cheap luxury, and of home as a dry-dock of repairs. No -matter how greatly discrowned, a woman may be recrowned. With her, heaven -is in the future and not in any past, she may serve, give, work and pray -with the love that is the crown jewel in her diadem. - -The sweetheart who is willing to be a wife is not man’s inferior or -superior, but equal in personal equivalent. The mere accident or -providence of sex does not entitle a man to any special privileged of -conduct before or after he is husband. Man’s character is judged by his -estimate of women. Such a poem as Hood’s “Bridge of Sighs” or Goldsmith’s -“Folly” would be impossible if men remembered not to act the part of -Faust to Margaret. - -“Go in peace and sin no more,” was the command to the fallen woman. -Confess to the one you have wronged, but don’t make a boastful show -before others. There are converted sinners in the pulpit and prayer -meeting who make a glory of their shame, unmindful of the advice, “See -thou tell no man.” It is the unpardonable sin of society that it would -cast and keep in deeper hell the woman with a past, though she be -willing to purify herself in the fire of remorse and baptize herself with -tears of repentance. - -Many a girl who once glittered in Folly’s and Fashion’s court has later -met and learned a true love. She was silent and devoted and today shines -a holy flame in the home as wife and mother. A woman may tell what she -is and hopes to be—not what she has been. The man who is fool and fiend -enough to insist that the Sphinx speak is unworthy of her. Let a man -remember to forgive and forget a woman’s past, as he hopes to have a -happy home here and hereafter. - - * * * * * - -Hello! or Ohell! - -Did you ever stop to think that there isn’t much difference between hello -and ohell—that ohell is just hello turned around? There’s nothing finer -in the English language it seems to me than a good old American “Hello!” -But give her the reverse English and you get a cussword—and when you say -“hello” to some people that is what you get. - - * * * * * - -How About This? - -The following want advertisement appeared in one of our well known -newspapers the other day: - -“Two sisters want washing. Will go anywhere.” - - * * * * * - -My girl shakes the shimmy so much, that she’s shaken herself out of -shape. - - - - -Smokehouse Poetry - - -_Smokehouse Poetry for October will feature three poems: one, the plea -of a prisoner; the second, a thrilling story of the squared ring by the -author of “The Kid’s Last Fight,” and the third, a comic jazz verse after -Langdon Smith’s “Evolution.”_ - -_“The Prisoner’s Prayer,” which is to be Number One on the poetry -billboard for October, was written on the stone wall of the Federal -penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, in September, 1909. It was -later memorized by another prisoner and just recently forwarded to the -Whiz Bang upon his release._ - - _“So hear ye the prayers from the prison,_ - _Where fever and famine are rife;_ - _Where never one soul has arisen,_ - _Where many go down in the strife.”_ - -_In response to inquiries from many readers we have obtained another copy -of “The Gila Monster Route” to replace the one which Maggie, the hired -girl, lost during our last farm house cleaning bee. It will be published -in the Winter Annual._ - - * * * * * - -Betrayed - -By Angela Morgan - - Bad, hopelessly bad! - I yielded to love that sways mankind, - Not the mere measure of bodily pleasure, - But love that wakes in the soul and the mind, - Born of the spirit at God’s behest: - And I bartered all I had. - - I, with the warmth of a child at my breast— - Am bad, hopelessly bad! - - Yet the power that molded my little son, - Is the same that moved for the wedded one; - Creation’s woes were just the same; - Had he only borne a father’s name. - Did love, that old fashioned universe - Fashion alike my curse? - - Listen, you who are true and good, - White and strong in your motherhood; - You with your wedding ring safe on your finger, - You who can linger, righteous and clean in love’s embrace: - Tell me the reason that I am base! - Are you so different after all? - - I answered the same high golden call - I yielded to love that is proud of pain— - Love, that reckoned not for gain; - And nature has made my child so fair, - As the child on your very shoulder there. - The same great impulse, deep and glad, - That hurls the suns and drives the earth - Brought both our children to this earth. - - Yet ... you are good and I am bad, - Vicious and evil and low, they say— - “A girl who has gone astray”; - - Yet the milk of my life is warm and white - That runs to his hungry mouth at night; - My words are soft, my arms are sweet, - My hands are kind to his little feet. - Can I, who live for my baby’s smile, - Be vile, hopelessly vile? - - O, great, broad, beautiful judgment day, - When dogmas of man are rent asunder, - And superstition is wiped away, - Will you plead for me, will you gently speak - For us who are voiceless and weak? - Plead for us, who must ever wonder? - Why we are hounded and held at bay— - We who can love, we who can pray: - - We, the mothers, who might be glad, - But are broken at heart and bitter and sad; - O, Future Day, will you write in flame, - The reason for sin and the reason for shame? - - That in all the city there seemed no room - No sweet clean place for my heart to bloom! - Oh, will you terribly tell the truth; - That the world which offers no worthy place, - For the light that shines in my baby’s face, - Offered no shelter for love and youth, - No guarding presence who understood, - My blossoming womanhood? - - So I sought his arms as a bird to nest - And I ... with the warmth of a child on my breast - I ... who bartered all that I had - Am bad ... hopelessly bad! - - * * * * * - -The Unwritten Law - -By Budd L. McKillips - - “Don’t kid me, I know that I’m dyin’, - The song of my life has been sung; - I’m done and there’s no use in tryin’ - To patch up a bullet torn lung. - - “I’ll bet, Doc, you think I’m a tough one - Who’d fight at the stroke of the bell— - You’re right, Doc, my life’s been a rough one, - And now I am headed for hell. - - “I used to be decent as any - Young man in that little mill town; - My friends in the village were many, - Until I commenced to go down. - - “’T’aint long when a fellow starts hittin’ - The booze till he’s gone the whole way; - And then when he thinks about quittin’, - He’s found that the devil’s to pay. - - “A woman—they’re always the reason - In my case the girl was my wife; - We married—were happy a season - And then trouble entered my life. - - “The man—we’d been palin’ together - Since both of us started to school; - I thought that he’d stick through all weather, - I trusted him—just like a fool. - - “He lived in my home like a brother, - For months our life went like a song, - And then I began to discover, - That somethin’ in life had gone wrong. - - “I watched till I thought I detected - My wife was wrapped up in his charms, - Then dropped into home unexpected, - And found her clasped tight in his arms. - - “I came in the room as she kissed him, - He saw me and begged for his life; - I shot at the cur, but I missed him— - He ran and left me with my wife. - - “My—wife—God! I’d found her no better - Than women who live on the street, - So diff’rent than when I first met her— - She screamed and fell dead at my feet. - - “Then somethin’ inside my brain parted - Like strings on a harp stretched too tight— - Doc, that was the time I got started; - I changed in a minute that night. - - “A few of my friends have stuck by me, - And assisted in lightening my load, - But the way most of them would eye me; - Soon caused me to hit for the road. - - “From city to city I’ve wandered, - And month after month rolled around; - What money I had I soon squandered, - But nowhere was peace to be found. - - “Sometimes for a day I’d be cheerful, - The thoughts of revenge would be still; - And then my poor brain would be clear full - Of him I had sworn I would kill. - - “Well, yesterday evenin’ I met him, - He begged and he pleaded and cried - For help, but I’d promised to get him— - I choked the dang cur till he died. - - “To make the job certain I drilled him - With five or six shots from my gun— - I’d killed him, yes dang him, I’d killed him!— - A cop came my way on the run. - - “I started to run to the river, - Then felt a sharp pain in my breast; - And fell in the street all aquiver— - A bullet had gone through my chest. - - “There’s no use to tell you the rest, Doc, - There’s nothin’ much more I can tell; - I’m happy, what I did was best, Doc— - They’re waitin’ for me down in hell. - - “It feels like the room’s gettin’ colder; - It’s dark and I’m startin’ to choke, - There’s somethin’ ahold of my shoulder! - So long Doc, I’m—goin’—to—croak.” - - * * * * * - -Going Down - - Man’s life is a vapour - And full of woes; - He cuts a caper - And down he goes, - And down, and down, - And down, and down, - And down he goes. - - * * * * * - - In my ear is the moan of the pines; - In my heart is the song of the sea - And I feel his wild breath on my face - As he showers his kisses on me. - And I hear the wild scream of the gulls - As they answer the call of the tide; - And I see the white sails, as they glisten - Like gems on the breast of a bride. - - * * * * * - -Hail to the Devil Dog - - He’s a drinker and a driller, - He’s a gambler and a sport; - He’s a hard old hand at fighting, - But at work he’s rather short, - The devil likes his fighting, - And the beauty way it’s done; - He’s a cross between a Christian - And the devil’s only son. - - His vice is like the most of men, - His virtue like a few, - But when you thump his metal, - You’ll find it’s ring is true; - He’s honored by the title, - Of a soldier and a man, - He’s Uncle Sammy’s nephew, - And all American. - - * * * * * - -A Tip For Wifey - - When your husband telephones to say, - “I won’t be home to-night - Till after twelve, I’ve lots to do,” - Just say, “Dear boy all right, - I’m going out myself to-night - And won’t be in till late.” - Will he come home on time? You bet - He’ll also come home straight. - - * * * * * - -Have a Drink, Boys? - -They were on a fast train through Arkansas (?). - -Every few minutes the lady across the aisle held a bottle to her lips. -The traveling man was thirsty. - -“How do you do,” said he. “What have you in that bottle, home brew?” - -“No,” she said, “I have consumption.” - - * * * * * - -Always - -Face the Music - -Even if it is your landlady’s daughter playing “The Maiden’s Prayer” on a -square piano. Some day you might be back on your board bill. - - * * * * * - - You need your money - And I need mine, - If we both get ours - It will sure be fine, - But if you get yours - And hold mine, too, - What in the divil - Am I going to do? - - * * * * * - -In the Game of Love - - In her first blossom, woman loves her lover; - In all the others, all she loves is love. - Here’s lovers two to the maiden true, - And four to the maid caressing, - But the wayward girl with the lips that curl, - Keeps twenty lovers guessing. - - * * * * * - -The dramatic triangle is caused by people not being on the square. - - - - -Our Movie Gossip - - -Los Angeles lawyers are laughing up their sleeves over the story -whispered in connection with the divorce suit of Agnes Schucker, known -to the screen world as Agnes Ayres, the Lasky leading lady, recently -elevated to stardom through the kindness of Wallie Reid. Because of the -fact that few people in California ever knew Miss Ayers under the name -of Schucker, the divorce suit of Agnes Schucker versus Captain Frank R. -Schucker, now with the United States Army in France, attracted little -if any attention. Thus it was, the gossips report, when pretty Agnes -Schucker recently entered the court room of Judge Summerfield, attired in -a plain brown dress and inconspicuous black hat, there were few in the -spectators’ gallery and none recognized the demure plaintiff as the Lasky -star. - -Tearfully Agnes’ mother told on the witness stand how she had to care -for her daughter, because of the alleged failure of Captain Schucker to -support Agnes. The mother’s testimony aroused the sympathy of the court -and the spectators, and there was a mention of a co-respondent “Lillian.” - -Everything was going lovely for Agnes until a cinema person from -Hollywood recognized her in the court room and unceremoniously tipped -off her identity to the judge. Hizzoner appeared peeved because Agnes -put on a little cinema drama all her own in his court room, assisted by -mamma’s weeps, and he threw the case out of court. - -Agnes’ lawyers then reopened the case on the grounds of desertion and -soon she is expecting to be traveling in single bliss. According to the -gossips, Agnes came back into court in the second trial her own real -movie self, and attired in a champagne colored gown trimmed in green, -and wearing a lavender hat trimmed with ostrich plumes. Mother, so it -is reported, explained later to the judge that she “misunderstood” the -question and that she merely meant she and Agnes lived in the same house; -not that she had to support her “victimized” daughter. - -Incidentally, Agnes has Wallie Reid to thank for her rapid rise in -filmdom, and Wallie, by the way, gives so many teas and dinners that it -is said he has to have two homes in order to accommodate all the parties, -the second one being somewhere in Laurel Canyon, and Agnes is rated among -his favorite dinner guests. - - * * * * * - -We have heard a story concerning our good friend Samuel Merwin, and if -it is true, we will have to give Samuel a gold medal. Sammie is out west -writing for the movies, and recently attended an exclusive house party -at Riverside. The story goes that on the homeward drive he was permitted -to escort a beautiful English girl. About two miles had been traveled, -so ’tis said, when the chauffeur reported the usual “blow-outs” and -“missings” and that Merwin and the girl had to wait long weary hours -during the “fixing” process. - -All of the young eligibles in California have been trying to land the -lovely English girl, but not Merwin, according to our bevy of Whiz -Bang Bunkers, because even the most loose-tongued gossips admit the -probability that during the two hours of waiting, Merwin went to sleep -and let the London beauty wait alone. - -Ah, romance, to where hath thou departed? - - * * * * * - -It wasn’t many months ago when J. Parker Reid, the director, with his -star, Louise Glaum, and other members of the company, took a little trip -to Tia Juana and San Diego. Of course, they went over to the Coronada -Hotel for dinner and there J. Parker Reid met a bevy of society folk. - -Now, you haven’t any idea how the society folk at Coronada fuss over -movie people. The Coronada crowd are an idle set with plenty of money, -little to do and an ambition to be considered clever. By informally -hob-nobbing with the writers and players of the movie colony from -Hollywood, they gain a new mental punch and are able to assume some of -the glamour, always emanating from the people who do interesting things. - -Louise Glaum has been conscientious in her art, you know. She is one of -the really hard working, conscientious women of her profession, and -we’ve heard she has some dependent relatives to support, and that she -never had much schooling, but has studied very hard by herself, and that -altogether her life hasn’t been an easy one. - -Louise’s pictures stopped making money a year or two ago, then she became -friendly with J. Parker and the tide in her fortunes seemed to change. -Reid perhaps fell in love with her, at least temporarily, and she perhaps -with him, and besides he raised capital to star her again. The pictures -were a success financially, and all the world seemed rosy for the hard -working actress. - -But, that trip to Coronada. J. Parker Reid, it seems, was fussed over a -wealthy Mrs. Piper. To her, a great motion picture director maybe was a -new idol for adoration. - -We wonder how it’s all coming out. J. Parker Reid some weeks ago made -it clear to Louise that their affair was over. In June he married Mrs. -Piper. Life’s a funny little game after all. - - * * * * * - -We are sorry to learn that some of the scandal mongers are whispering -derogatory rumors anent Jack Mulhall, because of the suicide of Laura -Mulhall in Hollywood while the decorations of the seventh wedding -anniversary party were still on the walls of their pretty home. Those who -are well acquainted with Jack declare he always was a “square shooter”; -that he had a splendid disposition and as a husband was as nearly right -as he knew how. He and his wife were constantly together and as far as -friends could see, she had been happy with him. The scandal peddlers -fail to appreciate the damage which they are doing to the future career -of Mulhall, not to mention the shadow placed over the three-year-old -freckle-faced boy. - - * * * * * - -Our Local Color - -Our good friend Gemmell, of the Minnesota and International Railroad, -wasn’t the railroad president who thought a gondola was a bird. In -fact, the blame is laid to Mr. Casey for suggesting that his company -purchase one male and one female gondola, so as to stock the city park of -Brainerd, Minn., with a flock or herd or covey of little gondolas. - - * * * * * - -Our friend Liebst reports that since his poem, the Hoboes Convention, -appeared in the Whiz Bang, he has received several letters from railroad -managers requesting permission to name a few box cars after him. Oh, -Fame, where is thy sting? - - * * * * * - -Ham Tomlin says he thinks he is growing old. He used to be able to kiss -his wife 20 times a day but now it take him all day to get up nerve -enough to kiss her once. - - * * * * * - -Don’t get jealous, boys, but I’ve just finished drinking some stuff that -was strong enough to make a rabbit slap a bulldog in the face. - - * * * * * - -It’s a lean Jane that has no curves. - - - - -Pasture Pot Pourri - - -Velvet Joe Says— - -_Don’t fuss with hubby about droppin’ tobacco ashes on the carpet. Them -ashes keep the moths out an’ the hubby in._ - - * * * * * - - Some folks would rather - Blow their own horns than - Listen to Sousa’s Band. - - * * * * * - -Greatness does not depend on size. Napoleon if he were living today would -never get a job as a cop. - - * * * * * - -And Very Nice, Too! - -A feller was engaged to a girl who was a twin. When asked how he told -them apart, he said: “Well, they’re both nice girls.” - - * * * * * - -=_Our friend Deegan insists an Irishman dies only when an angel is needed -in heaven._= - - * * * * * - -How can a man get a headache without brains? - - * * * * * - -A Family Dialogue - -He—I’m not coming home tonight, dearie. - -She—May I depend on that? (Oh, boy!) - - * * * * * - -Let’s Call It the Cockeyed Blues - -My girl’s eyes are so beautiful they can’t keep from looking at each -other. - - * * * * * - -=_Remember, boys, the turtle may be slow, but he’s always there for the -soup._= - - * * * * * - -We could love a girl as “pretty as a picture” provided she had a good -frame. - - * * * * * - -Honest, This Is True - - I no’a fel’la named Fawcett, - Who went to his cel’la dee’pos’it, - But when he got dare, - The barrel was bare, - And “Gus” was asleep at the Fau’cet. - - * * * * * - -Our idea of the height of vanity is to stand in front of a looking glass -when you’re asleep. - - * * * * * - -Pathetic, Ye Gods, Too Pathetic - -An Irishman and a Scotchman were standing at a bar—and the Irishman had -no money. - - * * * * * - -Glorious Daze - -Two drunks on a train. - -No. 1—“Whas sha time?” - -No. 2 (pulling card case out of pocket)—“Thurshday.” - -No. 1—“Thash our stashon. Letsh get off.” - - * * * * * - -Try This One - -=_The wedding cake was heavy, but the candles made it light._= - - * * * * * - -=_If your girl shakes you, don’t get rattled._= - - * * * * * - -Something to Worry About! - -A New Brunswick priest covered his eyes in shame as some girls passed him -at a bathing beach. - - * * * * * - -We Dodged Two Yesterday - -The starving pole cat leaned against the post without a cent. - - * * * * * - - “I’ll stick to you whate’er betide, - Though all the world may scoff.” - Thus spoke the heavy flannel shirt, - But the man said, “Aw, come off!” - - * * * * * - - He led her to the altar, ’twas merely tit for tat; - He led her to the altar, she led him after that. - - * * * * * - - He stood on the bridge at midnight, - Beneath the heaven’s great dome, - Because he was married and the jag that he carried, - Made him afraid to go home. - - * * * * * - -=_When I go to bed at night I snore so loud I cannot sleep. In fact, I am -often compelled to go into the next room so that I may not hear myself -snore._= - - * * * * * - - “How is the milk maid?” - He said with a bow. - “It isn’t made, Sir, - It comes from a cow.” - - * * * * * - -Very Versatile - -We heard the story the other day about a sailor at a ship’s concert who -was unable to sing as scheduled on the program, and who offered in lieu -thereof to show the audience the pictures tattoed on his chest. - - * * * * * - -Paris Made - -_A world war veteran hobbled into the hardware store the other day and -ordered some “tacks.”_ - -_“What kind?” asked the clerk._ - -_“I want to use them for garters,” said the lame Vet._ - - * * * * * - -A New Fad - -(A street sign in St. Paul) - -“GET YOUR SHOES SHINED INSIDE.” - - * * * * * - -X-Y-Z Tragedy - -“Combination shot,” murmured the pool shark, as he leaned too far over -the billiard table. - - * * * * * - -A Brief History - -Whiz Bang history of the world war: - -I want to go home! - -When do we eat? - -Who won the war? The Y.M.C.A. - -Don’t stand there, soldier. This is for officers only. - -If I hit, I don’t want any change. - -Was that pay day or mess call? - -Villa vouz promenade, M’lle? - -The battle of Vim Rouge. - -Mademoiselle fidelle, finee leguerre. - -Hello, Statue of Liberty! - - * * * * * - -An Autumn Song Success - -IF I HAVEN’T THE RENT THIS MONTH, DON’T YOU THINK THE LANDLORD OUGHT TO -HELP ME OUT? - - * * * * * - -Our Sentimental Melody - -_We have received several requests for copies of our original song -success published several months ago entitled, “You are a million miles -from nowhere when you hold her dainty hand.”_ - - * * * * * - -What a Pity - -Mike O’Reilly, of Butte, gazed mournfully at the corpse of his late -friend, who had but recently become an atheist, muttering to himself, -“You sure look fine, a clean shave, a new suit of clothes and a pair of -white gloves on you. All dressed up—and no place to go.” - - * * * * * - -Zoology - - When they first met he said, “a bear.” - He’d dog her footsteps everywhere. - She monkeyed with him for a year, - Although she said he was a deer. - A little horse-play hitched the two, - Now he’s the goat, it’s nothing gnu. - - * * * * * - -Our London Report - -To a young man who stood smoking a cigar the other day there approached -the elderly and impertinent reformer of meek and mild reputation. - -“How many cigars do you smoke a day?” asked the meddler. - -“Three,” answered the youth, as patiently as he could. - -“How much do you pay for them?” - -“A shilling each,” confessed the young man. - -“Don’t you know, sir,” continued the sage, “that if you saved that money, -by the time you are as old as I am you could own that big building over -the way?” - -“Do you own it?” inquired the smoker. - -“No.” - -“Well, I do,” replied the young man. - - - - -Japanese Bathing Beauties - -BY REV. GOLIGHTLY MORRILL - -Pastor People’s Church, Minneapolis, Minn. - - -To the religious rambler, Japan is divided into two parts—that which is -inhabited by the Geisha girls, and that “cohabited” by the Yoshiwara. - -I thought more of the Geisha dancers than the dance, and that wasn’t -much. The word “Geisha” means accomplished one, and there are schools -for their education in music and the arts. People visit the girls more -for pleasure than for profit, and since they are one of the institutions -of Japan, I went one night to a tea-house to see them. Making myself as -comfortable as possible on the floor, a screen door was slipped aside, -and in came a pretty Geisha girl who touched her head to the floor three -times, sat down and looked at each one of our party. Immediately there -fluttered in three more, and they made the room look like an Oriental -bird cage. They sang for us in a tone that suggested an ungreased axle -or a nail drawn across a piece of glass, played on the samisen and -koto, which nothing but the genius of a Wagner could appreciate went -through a fancy fan drill and proved themselves good entertainers, but -felt embarrassed because we were not familiar and indecent. They acted -serious and spoke to one another, and I asked what was the trouble. It -seems they didn’t know what to make of us, as the average tourist was -usually boisterous, drunk and rough. - -The Yoshiwara is the red-lantern district of Japan. One night we formed -a stag party to visit the Tokio Yoshiwara, but we couldn’t shake the -“dears” who were as anxious to go as we were and insisted on accompanying -us. Our rickshaws rolled through squares and streets and miles of mud and -misery, until we came to what was in itself a “city of dreadful night,” -but all ablaze with electric lights. Here were squares of theatre-looking -buildings in which women, dressed in bright and fancy garb, sat by -little stoves, and sullen, smiling or smoking pipes, looked out at the -spectators. The government regulates this “social” as a “necessary evil,” -and houses, supervises and guards the girls. In Japan it is regarded as -noble and filial for a daughter to sell herself to support the father and -family who may have failed financially. The same thing is done in Europe -and America for wealth and social position, but differently estimated and -under another name. - -Here they squatted in butterfly regalia, with silk kimona, obi, glossy -black hair stuck full of combs and gold pins, eyes painted and faces -powdered, thrumming a little guitar, squeaking out a love-song, and -making goo-goo eyes in a way that would make one smile if he could forget -the hell-horror of the place. Some of the inmates do not leave until -death; others return to society, which welcomes and does not disown; one -may return to her home, loved and respected, but with none of the fine -clothes and jewels given by her admirers during her absence. However, the -place often becomes a matrimonial bureau, and the girl is met, courted -and selected by some Jap as his wife. In addition to segregation, there -is such a supervision that the inmates can’t leave for even an hour -without the consent of the police. - -Hotel life is interesting. If you are curious, you have only to wet your -thumb and thrust it through the wall paper of your bed chamber to get as -many views as Peeping Tom had of Lady Godiva. This hole privilege is, -however, only claimed by the traveler who has no respect for the holy of -holies at inn or temple. - -Japan is the land of the Rising Sun—and daughter, who with the whole -family will take their bath and leave the same water for you to swim in -unless you set your alarm clock for a very early hour, or sit up all -night to get there first. Imagine a public bath, if you can, for many -homes have no bathroom, where the water by 10:00 A.M. is like a roily -creek after a rain; by 3:00 P.M., yellow as the Missouri, and by bedtime -like the mud geysers of the Yellowstone. - -The public bath was the one thing we wanted to see and kept asking -about. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and after visiting 2,738 of -the 3,000 temples in Kobe, I wanted to get “next” to a public bath. At -last I discovered one and sent the guide ahead to reconnoiter. He said, -“Come.” I passed the word along and the ladies came, but wished they -hadn’t. We entered and I became a “looker-on” at Venus in the bath, and -not one but many, who made the painted females in the Uffizi look like -chromos or Mrs. Jarley’s wax works. They eyed us with an indifference -that made us blush and look through our fingers for shame. With the ease -that only a model for the altogether possesses, they posed before the -mirrors, arranging their black hair, or poised like maids of the mist -by the steam tank. Their type of beauty is different. Jap beauty is in -angles, the American in curves. Nature made one with a ruler, the other -with a compass. As a rule, the baths for men and women are divided by a -wooden partition at the end of which sits the proprietor or his wife on -the lookout. Formerly there was no privacy and the fastidious foreigners -insisted that the sexes should be separated. This was accomplished by -placing a bamboo rod between them, but even that is discarded now in some -sections. Everybody gets into the swim, thus beautifully illustrating the -proverb, “Evil to him that evil thinks.” O tempora! O mores! - -One of the strongest impressions made upon me in my journey through Japan -was at Mogi, a malodorous little fishing village, out from Nagasaki, with -so large a smell that a blind man could easily find it by following his -nose. Coleridge, the poet, whose business it was to rely on imagination -rather than on fact, counted sixty well-defined and several stinks at -Cologne. He would have been overpowered here and called for the help of -a professor of higher mathematics to enumerate the volume and variety of -odors we encountered from Nagasaki to this town. - -A well made road lassoes the intervening foot-hills which are covered -with cultivated fields; the peasants were all busy, the children were -happy and more so when we threw them peanuts instead of “pansies” for -thoughts. Men, women and oxen were carrying various loads, but the common -one was a bamboo bucket affair balanced on both ends of a bamboo pole. -These buckets were not filled with milk, or cheese, or vegetables, but -with a substance which they had assiduously collected in accordance with -the Scripture, “Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.” I can -never forget the ascent or the descent to Mogi. From rocky road, through -pretty forest, by picturesque ravine, we reached the fishermen’s huts -with their nets by the shore and beach where bathing mermaids can only be -caught and carried home in a camera. - - * * * * * - -The Last Chortle - -A magician having nearly finished his act without exciting any applause, -gave his best stunts, expecting to get a rise out of the audience, but -without result. He then advised that he had saved his very best trick for -the last and asked all who wanted to see the devil to raise their hands. -Receiving a hearty response, he told them to go to hell, leaving the -stage in much haste. - - * * * * * - -Back to Childhood Days - -I visited an insane hospital at Oshkosh, Wis., and the keeper took me -through. Up on the second floor we passed down a long hall. At the end -there was a heavily padded and ironed cell. The keeper said to me, “The -man in this cell is the most violent and strongest man we have here.” I -looked at him. He was of Herculean build. - -As we turned away, there was an awful crash and the front of the cell -was thrown out in the hall. I ran down the hall and the big fellow right -after me. I jumped out of a window at the end of the hall and he jumped -right after me. I ran around the hospital and he after me. The attendant -stuck his head out of a window and said to me “Why don’t you run?” I -said, “Do you think I am trying to throw this race?” - -I ran across a field and he was right after me. I could hear his -footsteps behind me. I ran into a plowed field and that slowed me up. -He was gaining on me. Finally he got near to me and he reached out and -slapped me on the back and said, “Tag, you’re it.” - - * * * * * - -How’s This One? - -Jiggs fell into a big vat of turpentine over at the paint factory. - -Did it hurt him? - -Don’t know, they haven’t caught him yet. - - * * * * * - -Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few -drops on yourself. - - - - -Our Rural Mail Box - - -=_Petie L. Arsony_=—The reason why they feed convicts coarse food is to -keep their blood pure, so that they won’t “break out.” - - * * * * * - -=_Johnnie L._=—A divorce suit should always be cleaned before being -pressed. - - * * * * * - -=_Sweet Sixteen_=—You’re wrong. Woman is known not by the company she -keeps, but by the company she does not keep. You did right in not keeping -Johnnie’s company. - - * * * * * - -=_B. Good Tome_=—No, B, all chickens do not use fowl language, but I have -met several who could swear quite fluently. - - * * * * * - -The Vanguard - - ’Tis weary watching wave by wave, - But still the tide sweeps onward; - We build like corals, grave by grave - But pave a path that’s sunward. - - We’re beaten back in many a fray, - But newer strength we borrow; - And where the vanguard camps to-day, - The rear shall camp tomorrow. - - * * * * * - -Ghouls, Take Note - -(From San Francisco Chronicle.) - -Wanted—Second hand Coffin or couch casket. Box 4050 Chronicle. - - * * * * * - -Drexerd Pulls This One - -He—Let’s go to the dance tonight. - -She—Why do you like to dance so much? - -He—Oh, for many reasons—I can put my arm around you, draw you up close, -feel your soft cheek against mine, and— - -She—That will do! Let’s stay at home and make believe we went to the -dance. - - * * * * * - -Jes’ a Jester Jest - -Some people say: “Get thee behind me, Satan and push me along.” - - * * * * * - -What Ho? - -First Lunch Hound—“Well, old strawberry, howsa boy? I just had a plate of -oxtail soup and feel bully.” - -Second Counter Fiend—“Nothing to it, old watermelon. I just had a plate -of hash and feel like everything.” - - * * * * * - - _He knew that she would thank him not,_ - _He cared not for her scorn;_ - _He offered her his street car seat,_ - _To keep her off his corn._ - - * * * * * - -Our Harnessed Bulls - -First Cop—Say, did you get that fellow’s number? - -Second Cop—No, he was going too fast. - -Say, but wasn’t that a fine looking dame in the back seat? - -Yep, wasn’t she though! - - - - -Musings of A Bachelor - - -Between two women of equal beauty, always pick the one who closes her -eyes when she kisses you. She’s not so likely to think you want to marry -her. - -The proof that men do not understand women is that they love them. The -proof that women =_do_= understand men is that they marry them. - -The first kiss is always stolen by the man. And the last one is always -begged by the woman. - -The length of a woman’s kiss nearly always depends upon the breadth of -her imagination. - -To remain a woman’s ideal a man must die a bachelor. - -A woman’s idea of Hell—“Nobody loves me and my clothes don’t fit.” - -If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would -immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one. - -Men frequently marry to keep other men from getting the woman they -desire. They are not always successful. - -The final definition of love is something that gives pain without hurting. - -Self-respect means a comfortable sense that you have not been found out. - -When a man commits a sin, he says, “How shall I conceal this?” When a -woman commits a sin she says, “How can I let my friends know of this -without bragging?” - -The theory that really to know two women one must introduce them is -ridiculous. It often results in a divorce. - -A woman’s head is not always turned by flattery; sometimes its peroxide. - -When a woman starts an idle rumor, it at once ceases to be idle. - -One beauty of being single is that it’s a dreadfully thrilling experience -until one’s wife finds it out. - -It must be dreadful to meet at dinner the man who ran away with one’s -wife. It places one under =_such_= an obligation! - -If there were only one bachelor in the world, every married woman would -still think she made a mistake when she married her husband. - -Experience in man is something which is brought with the tears of plain -women and the kisses of pretty ones. - -Love without respect is an angel with but one wing. - -To make marriage perfect, the husband should be deaf and the wife blind. - - * * * * * - -Life is a river. Men are the boats. Women are the sandbars. - - * * * * * - -Fashion note: Cellar steps are worn very much this year. - - * * * * * - -Our Army Daze - -About 2:00 o’clock one morning while making the rounds as Officer of the -Day, I was halted by a sentry on post. After giving the pass word and -being duly recognized, I asked for his special orders. You may imagine my -surprise as he stood at port arms and said: - - “Sir (hic), my special orders are: - This post extends from tank to tank; - Salute all officers according to rank; - Take charge of all the shot and shell, - And all the water in the (hic) well, - And all the wood that’s in the yard,— - In case of fire, alarm the guard. - These are the orders I received - From the gosh darned sentry I relieved. - If this isn’t so, may I drop dead; - I’ve only had two hours in bed, - (Hic) Sir (hic).” - - * * * * * - -Blankety Blank Verse - -By William Sanford - - My wife came in very late last night, - Explaining that she had spent the evening - With her friend Cora. - But she did not look me in the face - When she said it. - But what could I say, - Coming in but a moment before, - After having spent the evening - Myself - With Cora. - - * * * * * - -Even a fish won’t get caught—if it keeps its mouth shut. - - - - -Larry Turn the Crank - - -For the past year or so a flock of these motion picture fellows have been -coming to see Ye Editor with propositions to put out a Motion Picture -Edition of this little journal of wit, humor and filosophy, and now it -looks like we would succumb to these offers. - -At this writing, our Hollywood representative, Mr. Morrison B. Egbert, is -negotiating with film distributors for the putting on the screens of up -to eight thousand theaters weekly the - - Screen Edition - - OF - - Captain Billy’s - - WHIZ BANG - -The film will contain gems of early issues and new material not published -in current issues. Jokes, jests, jingles, advice to the lovelorn from -Captain Billy, Mail Bag, Pot Pourri and other delectable offerings will -be filmed. - -As this magazine reaches the hands of YOU, the Reader, the weekly film -should be ready for booking. If your theater doesn’t show it, ask the -manager to get busy and climb on our band wagon. In conclusion, as our -friend K. C. B. would remark— - - I Thank You. - - Captain Billy - - - - -_Our Winter Annual_ - - -In addition to republication of gems of earlier issues of Captain Billy’s -Whiz Bang, the first complete Winter Annual of this great family journal -will contain a large variety of brand new jokes, jests, jingles, pot -pourri, stories, and smokehouse poetry. This book, Pedigreed Follies of -1921-22, will contain four times as much reading matter as the regular -issue of the Whiz Bang and will sell for one dollar per copy. It will be -a book which will be cherished by the readers for years to come, and will -contain the greatest collection of red-blooded poetry yet put in print. -Included in the list will be: - - Johnnie and Frankie, The Face on the Barroom Floor, The - Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Harpy, Lasca (in full), The Girl - in the Blue Velvet Band, Langdon Smith’s “Evolution,” Advice - to Men, Advice to Women, Our Own Fairy Queen, Stunning Percy - LaDue, Parody on Kipling’s “The Ladies,” Toledo Slim. - -Advance orders are now being received and will be mailed in the order in -which they are received. 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