For each warrior was off to the battle and strife
To make the world safe for a good-looking wife.
But they’d never have fought if they’d read Helen’s note,
Which just before leaving she hastily wrote:
“Menelaus just entered our once happy home
With an overseas cap on the top of his dome!”
Fairfax D. Downey, 1st Lt., F.A.
HOGGIN’ IT
Well, I’ve eaten food sublime, and I’ve eaten food that’s rotten,
From Alaska’s coldest corner to where the landscape’s cotton;