common people."

* * *

We are reminded by our learned friend, W. F. Y., that Socrates began at
64 to study English, but had to give it up as a bad job. "The fact," he
says, "is interestingly set forth in Montefiori's 'Eccentricities of
Genius.'"

* * *

The attitude of our universities and other quasi-educational
institutions toward Greek is that 81 is the proper age for beginning the
study of it.

* * *

Breathing defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment, Jay Rye and Jewel
Bacchus were married in Russellville, Ark., last Sunday.

* * *

The Wetmore Shop, on Belmont avenue, advertises "Everything for the
baby."

* * *

Sir: I feel that the time has come to call your attention to a letter
received from C. A. Neuenhahn, of St. Louis. It concludes CAN/IT.

A. E. W.

* * *

Persons who cannot compose 200 words of correct and smooth running
English will write to a newspaper to criticize a "long and labored
editorial." A labored editorial is one with which a reader does not
agree.

* * *

THINK OF IT!

Take any life you choose and study it.
Take Edgar Lee Masters':
He is a lawyer and a poet;
Or perhaps it is best to call him
A lawyer-poet,
Or a poet who was never much at law,
Or t'other way around if you prefer.
Whichever way 'tis put, the fact remains
He wrote a poem that now sells
For fifty cents plus four beans.

Think of it!
Four dollars and fifty cents,
Or, if you prefer,
$4.50.
And Elenor Murray did not have a cent on her
When they found her body on the banks
Of the Squeehunk river.

And the poem is out of stock at half the stores.
And Villon starved and Keats, Keats--
Where am I? I don't know.

Yseult Potts.

* * *

The headline, "U. S. to Seize Wet Doctors," has led many readers to
wonder whether the government will get after the nurses next.

* * *

We have always been in sympathy with President Wilson's idea of
democracy. He expressed it perfectly when he was president of Princeton.
"Unless I have entire power," said he, "how can I make this a democratic
college?"

* * *

The complete skeptic is skeptical about skepticism; and there is one day
in the round of days, this one, when he may l