The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-31
w. c. T. U. COLUMN.
EDITED BY THE LADIES OF THE KE-
NosHA w. c. T. U.
THE VINE THEORY. DIsPRovED

NV husband is very fond of beans,
and as [ was out one day putting up
the poles [ thong hit how often ne had
compared women to vines and men to
the supports on which they climb. AS
he is very fond of poetry too, and the
next day was our wedding anniversary,
[ thought it would be very nice to sur
prise him with pretty little poem
about it, So I returned to the house
and began to write. But let me tell
you what trouble [ got into before |
finished. Here is what I wrote:
GAS the vine unto the tree is
So unto the man is woman.
He the strength which doth support ner
She the beauty which adorns him;
In the gentle blushing spring time
See the tender vine uprising
From the warm protecting bosom
Of the Earth, her gentle Mother;
Timidly she rises upward
Suddenly she feels her weakness;
Throws aloft her clinging tendrils
Stretches out her tiny fingers;
Till she finds some sturdy oak tree
And her gentle arms enfold it."
Now here came my first difficulty. |
was writing to please John, aud OF
course I had Gus" in mind all the time
and you cannot imagine how funny and
shocking it seemed when l began to
write about John standing there like
tree, and of my going to him first and
stretching out my arms instead OF
I-well-it was so funny that | laugh
ed till the tears ran down my cheeks
But I never saw tree go out Gifts
way after vine, so | had to let 1t go.
"Straightway then she rises upwards
Seeks the heights he has attained to;
In few short weeks she reaches
Heights he has been years in gaining;
Twines about his topmost branches
Throws her longing tendrils upward;
Finds That her support has failed her
Finds That if she mounts still higher;
She must leave him far behind her
Then with gentle woman's pity;
Seeing that he cannot follow
Leaves the goal of her ambition;
Unattained, and backward turning
Falls again to seek his level.
did not like the sound OF those last
lines but they were tru" Of the vine and
| couldn't help it So tho CHIT |
would make up for them by some really
pretty lines about him supporting her
in the bitter blast Of aff1iction.
There was strong wind Slowing
about this time so / thought would
90 out aud look at the bean vines, and
the poles would figure as the trees aud
perhaps I might get an inspiration from
them. There were two rows, one IN
which the vines we're twined all about
the poles and another in which the
poles had just been set out and the
vines had not yet begun TO cling.
Well they were struggling beautiful
ly with the winds and he harder il
blew the closer the vines seemed to
cling to the poles and just begun to
feel an inspiration, when there came a
sudden gust of wind and blew over
every single one of the poles which
did mt have vines on them and left the
others standing straight as ever That
just spoiled it all, for after that, nc
matter how I looked at them, those
vines always would seem to be holding
up the poles instead of the poles hold
ing up the vines [ went into the
house disguised and made up my mind
that there was no subject for a poem
out there, and there must be something
wrong about the vine theory, though |
wouldn't have John know it for the
world, he is so fond of it you know and
l don't suppose ever should have dis
covered it if [ had not tried to write a
poem about it.-ARABELLA SMITH in
Woman's Journal.
Rev. Sam Jones expresses his opin-
ion of liquor as follows: 81 think
liquor is a good thing in its place, but
[ believe its right place is in hell.
That is my sentiment straight out.
Even take Bob Ingersoll in Chicago.
Will YOU let me quote him little?
Bob Ingersoll says that whisky is Gods
worst enemy and the DEVILS best friend.
| NOW GHd6 is SUOu duIHOAlby vi Cnat
side. And if an inidel will say that Of
whisky, and say it publicly, then in the
name of common sense, what ought a
Christian to say? What ought all
preachers to say?"
The hardest blows the temperance
reformation has had in this century
have been in the fact that some re-
formers have halted under the delusion
of this high license movement. You
know what it is. It is the white flag
of truce sent ont from alcoholism to
prohibition to make the battle pause
long enough to get the army of ocean
tiers and demijohns better organized.
Away with that flag of truce or | will
fire on 1T. Between these two armies
there can be no truce On the one
side is God and sobriety and the best
interests of the world, and on the other
side is the sworn enemy Of all righteous
ness, and either rum must be defeated
or the church of God and civilization