Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

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26 Announcement of Contest Winners being made to return the pictures with which postage was inclosed. The others were not tiled alphabetically, and it would be impossible to find an individual entry among the thousands. Therefore, if you inclosed postage when you sent your picture, it will most probably be returned if you are not a winner. If you did not inclose postage, it is useless to write now and send us stamps. We could not find your pic ture, and would only have to return your money. Foreseeing such a situation, it was clearly stated in italic type, in every publication of the rules, that this magazine would not be responsible for any pictures or letters submitted to the contest. We are doing our utmost to return them to the senders who put stamps in their entries, but the return of even these cannot be guaranteed. PLAINTIVE SONG OF THE LADY BUG [ BELONG among the upper set's best people, And my high position bothers me a bit, For Fm isolated like a stately steeple, There are lots of pleasures that I must omit ; While I do not care to talk of my attractions, Still, I must admit Fm more than passing fair ; And it splits the male contingent into factions When I step into the plot 'most anywhere. Oh, they dance attendance on my stray caprices, And they try to make the going soft for me ; Though I bust a multitude of hearts in pieces,' Yet Fm not as happy as I ought to be. Men ! They ask me out to concerts and to dances, And they take me out to every blooming show ; Men ! They tell me that my pulchritude entrances, But — they do not take me where I want to go. For — by way of necessary explanation — (I tell all these things to you in confidence) I am just as timid as a poor relation, Who, upon receiving money, gets him hence; It is very hard for me to ask a favor, That's my nature, and Fm sorry it is so; So, you see, my problem waxes graver, I am much too shy to tell them where to go. v Me, I'd like to go and see the moving pictures, For the handsome heroes thrill my very soul ; But my whole life must be lived between the strictures Of position and the ultrasocial role. They have placed me on a pedestal above them, At an altitude that's formal, cold, and smug; There they think that I am happy, but, Lord love them, It is time they learned I am a lady bug. Lyon Mearson.