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Title: Slings and arrows
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Edgett, Edwin Francis, 1867-1946
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Publisher: Boston, B. J. Brimmer company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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To accept your money,
And declining to place the change
In your extended hand,
Calmly drops it
On the glass,
And views with glee
Your efforts to pick it up.

111

THE BUSINESS MINDER

LIFE insurance presidents
Are apparently setting themselves up
As the arbiters
Of feminine fashion.
Here is one of them
Who hails from Hartford
And he proclaims
That " all women
Who bob their hair
Are useless,"
And that his ideal
Of a business woman
Is " one who has had
Two or three years
Of college work,
Does not powder her nose,
Does not watch the clock,
Does not rouge her cheeks,
And does not
Smoke cigarettes."
By way of rejoinder
Perhaps we may be
Permitted to say
That our ideal
Of a life insurance president
Is one who
Minds his own masculine business.

112

THE KNITTERS

WHERE are they,
The multitudinous knitters
Whose needles
Were wont to flash
Before our eyes
In street car,
Railway train,
On hotel piazza,
In lecture hall,
And many anothe
Public place?
They were knitting
For the boys in khaki,
But is there none
To knit for in
These piping times of peace?

113

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THE REVOLVING-DOOR
INVENTOR

WHEN the lamented Gilbert,
Wisest and merriest of humorists,
Wrote in one of his liveliest moods
About the fitting
Of the punishment to the crime,
And in another vein
About a little list of victims
To be found,
He had not in mind
The revolving-door,
For it was not then
Inflicted upon
A long-suffering world.
If it had been,
He would undoubtedly
Have consigned its perpetrator
To a well-deserve
dAnd everlasting whirligig
Of gyrations
Within its confines.

115

THE MANUSCRIPT ROLLER

HE may be able
To write good English,
He may be able
To spell with accuracy,
He may be a man of ideas,
And he may have a message
For the world,
But he is welcome
To no editorial haunts
If he rolls his manuscript.
Editors have some rights
That even the most
Intelligent contributors
Should be bound to respect.

116

THE WEATHER GROWLER

MAN and woman
Are seldom content
With the meteorological
Dispensations of the gods.
Without a murmur
They will accept much else
That comes to them,
But not the weather.
If it be hot
It should be cold

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