{"id":7878,"date":"2022-01-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2022-01-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:00:00","slug":"the-high-ball-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-high-ball-route\/","title":{"rendered":"The High-Ball Route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Tacoma Times, January 14, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girlie, I\u2019ve noticed the flashy guy,
    The one who\u2019s chasing around with you;
Believe me sister, he don\u2019t get by;
    You want to chuck him\u2014and sudden, too;
He may look grand and he may talk great,
    But take my warning and cut him out,
For the guy who\u2019s honest and true and straight
    Don\u2019t court his girl by the high-ball route!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Them friends of his that you\u2019ve had to meet
    Ain\u2019t just the kind that you ought to choose,
For how kin a decent girl keep sweet
    In a crowd that\u2019s given to paint and booze?
There\u2019s too much glitter and flash and glare;
    That duck\u2019s too much of a \u201cgood old scout;\u201d
Believe me sister, the guy who\u2019s square
    Don\u2019t court his girl by the high-ball route!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You get some feller that thinks you\u2019re queen
    And tries to keep you from any wrong;
This present party is far too keen
    On leadin\u2019 you off with the giddy throng;
The true-blue feller will treat you white,
    But not where the spigots fizz and spout;
Believe me, sister, the guy who\u2019s right
    Don\u2019t court his girl by the high-ball route!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Tacoma Times, January 14, 1914. By Berton Braley. Girlie, I\u2019ve noticed the flashy guy,    The one who\u2019s chasing around with you;Believe me sister, he don\u2019t get by;    You want to chuck him\u2014and sudden, too;He may look grand and he may talk great,    But take my warning and cut him out,For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}