Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1913 — Limerick Writer Sends Sample of Work to Wilson. [ARTICLE]

Limerick Writer Sends Sample of Work to Wilson.

Washington, D, C.—The first limerick reached the White House Tuesday. President Wilson Is a lover of this form of verse and is ar expert both in remembering them and in writing them. The one received Tuesday came from T. E. Martin, of Buffalo, who proposes himself as "president of the Limerick Society.” It is: "Said a man of New Jersey named Woodrow ‘“The great ship of state I sure could row,’ “He is now at the oar “Launching out from the shore; “Proving he surely could row and Woodrow."