Had Shakespeare Been Country Editor

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 14, 3 April 1912, Page 2

Had Shakespeare Been Country Editor

ROME RUMINATIONS. The ides of March. Polities are booming. Senate meets Tuesday eve. Lots of bets on the election. Mrs. Cato is visiting her daughter, •Mrs. Portia Brutus. I attest styles in togas at Casca’s. — Ad. Marcus Brutus is trying to organise a village improvement association. Looks like our esteemed fellow-citi-zen, Mr. J. Caesar, might not get elected after all. Leanand 11. Cassius patronises the Vox I’opuli cafe. Pretty good free lunch there, eh, Cash? Mrs. Calphurnia Caesar will return to Rome next week, having been visiting friends in Watertown and Ogdensburg. Our esteemed fellow-vitizen, Marcus Antonins, addressed a mass-meeting at the Opera House Wednesday evening. Marc i« quite an orator. Our well-known local poet, Mr. Cinna, has written a poem which he will read at the dedication of the new armoury over Casea's dry-good? slqre. Our local militia company,. under .the command of Captain Brutus will have its annual encampment at Sardis next month., Our bova Jpok lik,£ rfa ' soldiera. —Pun du