for things both new and old.

* * *

A man asks the Legal Friend of the People, "Will you kindly publish
whether or not it is illegal for second cousins to marry in the state of
Illinois?" and the Friend replies, "No." Aw, go on and publish it.
There's no harm in telling him.

* * *

WHYNOTT?

[From the Boston Globe.]

From this date, Sept. 25, 1920, I will not be responsible for any bill
contracted by my wife, Mrs. Bernardine Whynott.

G. Whynott.

* * *

In all the world the two most fragile things are a lover's vows and the
gut in a tennis racket. Neither is guaranteed to last an hour.

* * *

It would help along the economic readjustment, suggests Dean Johnson, of
New York University's school of commerce, if we all set fire to our
Liberty Bonds. We can't go along with the Dean so far, but we have a
hundred shares of copper stock that we will contribute to a community
bonfire.

* * *

The height of patriotism, confides P. H. T., is represented by Mr.
Aleshire, president of the Chicago Board of Underwriters, who, billed to
deliver a patriotic address in an Evanston theater, paid his way into
the theater to hear himself talk.

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IT MUST BE ABOUT TIME.

Sir: The Federal Reserve bank at New Orleans has received a letter from
a patriot who wants to know where and when he shall pay the interest on
his Liberty bond.

Rocky.

* * *

"In fact, I've finished--would you say a sonnet?"--concludes H. G. H.,
to whom we recommend the remark of James Stephens: "Nobody is interested
in the making of sonnets, not even poets."

* * *

Referring to the persons who are given to the making of sonnets, Norman
Douglas wrote: "I have a sneaking fondness for some of the worst of
these bards.... And it is by no means a despicable class of folks who
perpetrate such stuff; the third rate sonneteer, a priori, is a
gentleman, and this is more than can be said of some of our crude
fiction writers who have never yielded themselves to the chastening
discipline of verse composition, nor warmed their hearts, for a single
instant, at the altar of some generous ideal."

* * *

The trouble with minor poets is well set forth by Conrad Aiken in The
Dial, who refers to the conclusions of M. Ni