Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-01-14
WITH PEN AND INK.
GALATEA.

GALATEA.
Then thrilled with sharp remorss. he held
her of.
80 that the moonlight bashed the wondrous
form
That auivered still with his last fond csress.
And have Weakened lhse to life and love
Life with its burden, Low with thoruy crown
And death that puts an end to all fair things
Who might'st have stood in calm and stony
grace
And perfect beauty all the ages through.
Forgive me, SWEET "
But while the first sad tears
sprang to her eyes. and while her heart beat
quick
For dread of all the untried years might bring.
She, womanlike, laid her warm lips TO his
And whispered soft;
BE eomforted. my own;
Could have spoken this had been my choice,
Since love atoneth both for life and DEATH
On quiet street, near enough to
Broadway to be accessible, and far
enough to miss the flarshest OF its eter-
nal roar, is the Authors Club, where
every two weeks the foremost thought
smiths OF the city meet and dine and
talk. The building is a conventional
brown stone dwelling-house with the
usual climb of foot-scarred brown steps
to the bell-handle. The steps are rather
more worn and ragged than is usual, as
though the authors made habit OF riding
Pegasus up to the door and dismissing
him there.
Within the doorway there is another
pair of stairs to be climbed, as the Auth
or's Club occupies the second floor, the
lower suits of rooms belonging to fenc-
ing club, the pen being exalted above
the sword. The rooms themselves are
pleasant and airy, connecting one with
another so that long table can be
stretched from end to end, low book cases
line the walls, and over the hard wood
floors heavy rich-toned rugs are spread
Portraits and engravings of various dis
tinguished members are being hung on
the walls and the whole place has COM
Portable inviting look much more attract
tive to woman's eyes than the effem-
mate plush-cushioned luxury of the great
Union League Club, which seems to have
usurped all the functions of home and to
beat woman from her stronghold. The
chairs are lain and strong, the sort of
chairs a man might white the back of
as he. sat astride the seat telling his fav-
orite yarn. The greatest charm of the
whole place is that it does not seern SO
awesomely fine as New York people gen.
orally delight TO make their surroundings.
Over the fireplace stands two large pen
and ink drawings CT the original meeting
place OF the club. 1t is the end of the
unique drawing-room in which Richard
Watson Glider, editor-in-chief OF he Cen
fury Magazine, gathered together its
members before the club had outgrown
the capacities OF private house. Per
maps the most interesting belonging of
the club is the great club album contain
Ing the photographs OF the members with
their signatures beloS The familiar
faces OF Holmes and Whittier, Lowell
and Bryant are really less interesting
than the more familiar faces of the
younger set of writers. Among the faces
Bill Nye's bald head looms up with ia
cetious irreyerence, but on the whole one
IS struck with the number OF handsome,
forcible faces, and a pleasant lack of os-
tentation in the manner in which they
are taken. No roll of Ms. or affectedly
prominent pen disfigures this simple gall
lery of our greatest thinkers.