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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1907)
lill II I V . J I "1 V k i 4 4 0 1 E J r '71 E E J J . n Tlfc f '-Jwas Year's Eve; but far above the horn and battered hat There lay a sumptuous studio where Art enthroned sat And upper class Bohemia had summoned Genius there To consecrate the glad new year and praise the lacquered ware. 2. A shaggy Violinist and an Author grave and glum, And a chinless, pallid Poet, with a ring upon his thumb, And an oily Hindu Swami graced this coterie apart KT - r"i i T" i'xoi 10 menuon riuirv Kumes, wno baa made a plunge la Art 3 In the strpets the thoughtless thousands robbed the city of its rest; In the studio the lionizing hostess did her best To tap the founts of Culture and to ope the gates of iThought While Fluffy tried to hide the horn which brother Dick had brought. faX 4. So the Poet bleated wanly for he had his bread to cam And the almost famous author followed when it came his turn. And the Hindu Swami lectured for his rent was in arrears And the shaggy Violinist had the women all in tears. And then there fell a silence, as the old year's knell was strucR. Whispered Fluffy to her brother, "Blow that horn just once for luck!" And with that she seized a banjo why, she never could divine But she opened on those dreamers with 'The Days of.Auld Lang Syne. (COPYRIGHT, 1907. BY THffl NEW YORK HERALD CO.) 6. And they gathered round Miss Fluffy, and they dropped their maudlin mask. And the way they roared the chorus was as fine as you could ask For Culture has its uses, but it's red blood where it's found That keeps the world a-spinning and. the new years coming -round!
