The Archive · 1928

A Ballade of Bare Knees

A man of Cleveland has a million Completely. without In fact, he seeks to break the Of "Learning's league with Wi Beauty And bar scholastic court and cell To what he calls "bare-kneed cutie.

He says, this mi chewing-4um and caramel.

What sighing sophomore can tell The story of the Stamp Act duty, Columbus and his caravel, When gazing on a "bai He says, with Woman on the pillion, "To ruin rides the 'Man pell-me! Her shriller note from the pavilion integrates the college' yell sedated th magic fell She dopes you as she offers you tea So if you want that maillion—well You'll nave to serap the "barekneed Envoi awe Prine Princes of wares that sell and smell Poor boneheads (loquimur argute) 'You and sour dollars go to hell—Cornell" will, keep, her' "bare-kneed Fourowine a plea by members of the Kuomintang for simplicity and lack of expense in celebrating mar-ringes, and in order to set a good model for young men and follow Mr. Li Pao-yin ands Mi Huang Yun have inserted short advertisements in the Peking papers announcing that by mutual agreement, they will from July 2, 1928, live together in one house as life partners. The advertisement cost the young couple only $3 and they became husband and wife without the customary Chinese ceremonies and expenses. The advertisement did not say whether the young' couple have received sanction from their parents and its appearance in the papers has caused a big. sensation among Chinese of the old type who regard it a9 illegal as well as immoral, and also contrary to the [traditional Chinese morals and cus-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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