Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-18
THE BEAUTIFUL's No.

lace.
Shs sported 'kerchief as small as her face
She seemed waiting about in hsr freet polon
Like a cloud,
And she bowed
Half aloud
spake good. evening" good night" to the
: sciouS Of wealth,
As though shying ana iimp'ring were good for
her health.
Alas that the fire in her soul burned so low
No"
4 ravishing aroma swept through the hall
Whittier she moyed.-iike mist in a squalI
When the winds sweep along DER the crestS o.
the waves
An atmosphere bresaAed by her lackeys and
Bowing low
For show
In row,
She hold them all captive--the fash of her eyes
Like sunbeam reflected from boresl ice
Shone into their hearts while hsEs Ike Ace
No."
Would all could have seen pery the quick and
the dead,
That selfish incsrnate,--of beauty the head
How meath the glare of the grand chandelier
She ruled in her realm Of beauty,its peer,
Not with love
Like a dove
From above
Came her benson down to refresh end to cheer,
TO gladden.--to wipe from all faces the tear,
From the throne OF her pride waved the sceptre
And the scar of its power was ''The Beautiful's
No."
princess was she in her realm supreme
A nightmare, and yet most beautiful dream,
Deep down in her heart there were waters,--a
food.
But their springs were meier touched with the
Heart of stone
Love all flown
All o'ergrown
With the tares and the brambIes that selishress
yields,
Her heart was waste; there were no pleasant
fields.
An ce-drift,--a glacier,--sweet waters coutd
flow,
Couldthe sunshine of God warm 'The Beauti-
fuis No.
On the cushion of pomp knelt the wise and the
And one there was knelt, neither 'tother nor
which"
Lacking sense he aspired t. lead THE Beautiful
For "a g@tn" ''quadrille, THE belle Of the
Galanting,-
Cayortng,--
Ripsnorting,-
He bowed and he scraped as the upper ten do
Said g" Toould erqaiSttely please, MISS, to SchOt
tiSche aCih you.'
lie staggered at frst,-then fell from the blow,
&nd the drijt that enguphed was The Beaut
tuIs No"
It came from the lips of the beautiful girl
hend stepping out through gateway OF pearl,
i cyclone O'GTstreWing all its pathway with woe,
0! shield HE for ave. from The Beautiful's No"
We can't really blame the girl, for
the stupid noodle wanted to put on
little style, and wasn't cup" in the
rules Of etiquette. But then she might
have said, ''Shoo fly, don't bodder me, "
or I'm engaged, thank you or some
other soft speech, and thus saved the
silly youth from being overwhelmed by
such storm and an untimely demise
by THE Beautifups No"
Peck of the La Crosse Democrat
is probably the best posted man on
bees in the west His knowledge bee
dizens the other understanding of all
brother editors. IF he isn't careful
that Queen Bee of his, whom he calls
Honey" in response to her ''Old Bees
wax" will honey comb him down one
of these days, and then he will think
how much more glorious it IS to bee
bread outside hive, where she
couldn't make it swarm for him.
Hear him swarm There is a story
going the rounds headed, "What a
fairy saw in a beehive" We don't
know what the fairy saw, but if the
bees were anything like flock of bees
Dick Dart used to keep in Ripon, we
will bet she got away from the bee or
chard pretty soon. One day there in
Ripon, a girl who attended the college,
frail thing she was, SAID she had
great influence over bees. She went
up to the hive and began to talk Latin
and Greek to them, when about seven
teen hundred of them came out, and
how doth the little busy bee 90 for
that angel. They bit her in every
conceivable place, from Dan to Beer
sheba, and they said that frail girl
went over a four-foot picket fence
without missing a note. Did it hurt
her? O, we don't know about that,
but Kimball, now of the Green Bay
ADVOCATE, who attended the college
then, and used to beau that girl around,
changed works aud used to go around
with an old maid who wore spectacles,
for a few weeks, and they said there
was zone vacant chair at the table.
The girl said she ul'cqys preferred to
stand up to eat. Dick Dart just
smoked his pipe and set his bees for
another fairy, or dog, or anything
that came sleng.