The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-15
LOVE AND LExIcoNS.


kxNcTDEST OF T1IE sPELLISG CRUSADE.
ckNTo I.-sHE-
She lived on Calumet Avenne, -, -,,-
Her hair was golden her eyes were biue,
And full rs sweet ~ her sunny .i snlis -. IL
Was the fact fhat,hcr father had made ms pie
This maiden had learned At Eassar store
OF fashionable linguistic lore.
French German, ftslian, al she knew,
And sfill she was posted in English too,
v-b,chis mot Che fashion nowadays
with girls from Vassar or Chegaray's
They dcnT quite learn foreign tongues, but yet
Their own they manage 10 forget.
cANro HE.
He-for a story must have He - y
Was the social antipodes OF - She's
Merrily did he the counterlea
And he wrestled his hash at q boarding -lionse
cheap. E- -
lie was self made. As a cash boy he
Used 10 spell out the dodgers" Hosiery
Cheaper than Ever-Diaper Crash,
At Panic Prices"-scarce needing tiie "Cash !"
OF the angry salesman. Himself clerk,
he improved his mind from dawn TIL dark;
Till h;s pensive Tyre he used 10 tune,
And strike his chords in the Sunday Tribune.
cANTO uT.-DovE AT FIRST SERVING.
They met that is, she went 10 the store,
And made hn turn his department Ger,
Till he vanished behind the goods, and then
She pleasantly said she would call again.
Little she thought that behind that pile
OF dress-goods he had treasured her smile,
And that he saw in each patterns hue
The gold Of her hair or her eyes deep blue.
Less that the poem that had nook
in the sacredest part of her own scrap book,
Was the work Of the clerk who used 70 sttune
Ills seif-made harp for the Sunday Tribune.
They went TO church. From the gallery
He ~ in 4 Vn Gfa
A golden tress in the light that shOne,
Which he fondly imagined WAS her own.
cASro Iv-THE roURSANENT.
The Church in Orthography it went mad,
Folks took the spellingfuenza bad,
And the clerk and the maiden one night they
went
To take a share in Tournament.
ON one side glittered the golden head
OF the wealthy maiden at Vassar bred;
ON the other was seen like the rail Of stair >
The self made clerks self brushed raven hair.
cASro v.-srELLrSG's MAoNIFIcESTLr STERN
The first words fired; the fray's beguni
Here and there drops aweaker one;
The puzzlng Polysylables heard,
word.
The parson stands down. but his troops are led
by fair young girl with golden head;
The deacOn's fOored, but spellefof might
A dry goods clerk, upholds the fight. ..-,
The combat deepens; on, We brave
Who spell for Webster's Unabridged Save 2
The maiden and clerk, all are spelled down,
And the Tournament has Duel grown. d..
CASrO YI--rHE CONFLICT OF TITASs-
Each eve is bent on the dulntless pair,
The maid of blue eyes and golden hair,
Spells swiitly, surely--no more she lags
Than chamois skipping mid Alpine crags.
The clerk for quarter scorns TO beg; .......
He ".collarE and throws" like Sias Wegg,
The hardest words that the referee
Can find IN the spellerfrom A to 4 ,---...
ssCANPe vIT-LovR's YOUNG DREAM. -
She thinks in wonder: 'oDid he spell hvrn =
How my heart keeps ffuttering ali tEe timei" :
He Were she mine, fd use ina triee
Her lips for another sort Of 'gneiss."
cASTo ym-povE's skchIFlcE.
The Eoferee giEes lsin an easy word;
He pauses Will he miss it: Absurd. 81
murmur runs through The tls1Eea tfirofsg --zza7
The clerk hassPelied :. = ssieeables, vIpng
They cisecssi he maiden ana et her feet
But sAee whispers the clerk, with "a eldshing
81 kitsw You could speu it an the yhiie.' !,
etSro TX LOVES REwkRD. =
And heFeplies; 2 Your eyes OF blue :, ,..-~
Have woIlapy prize, and myheart won, too.n
And s5es = fhe people are staring aw- 81 :
Fully bara at Iis. You must ask my pat =
Home nom the chnrch walk hechampions two
To thehOnse on Calumet Avenue. sil,y -
When they part at the porch, The sound that's
Is not made by spelling diftcalt world
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