The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-13

vantage in case of an emergency, rides
a horse man fashion and goes with the
gang everywhere, often leading in their
acts of deviltry.
WOMAN OF FORTY SUMMERS:
Full of outline and fair OF face,
Swinging her fan with languid grace,
White arms cleaning through folds of
lace
A woman Of forty summers.
No thread of white in the auburn hair,
No line of age in the forehead fair.
a life unmarried by touch of care.
In spite of her forty summers.
A husband-lover and children sweet,
Pleasure to charm and friends to greet,
Roses scattered before her feet.
Through each of her forty summers.
Summers all, for no winters bold
Have snatched her sunshine and made her
cold:
Have killed her roses and left her old;
Nothing she knows but summers.
Nothing she knows of latent cloud.
OF freezing air and tempest loud,
Her life has been only summers. ..s
So calm she sits in the summer air,
No sorrows to fret, no cross to bear,
A summer idyl, a vision fair,
This woman of forty summers.
Yet cold and blast but make us strong,
After the snow the robins song;
To the fullest life by right belong
The winters as well as summers.
And they whom fame shall carve in stone
The women whom men would fain en-
throne,
The women whom God has stamped his
own,
Live winters as well as summers.
-Jenness Miller Monthly.
In all ages, the bachelor has been de-
servedly held in contempt. The wise
Plato condemned the single man to q
fine, and in Sparta they We're driven at
stated times to the temple of Hercules
by the women, who there drilled and
castigated them in true military style.
The ancient Romans, too, were severe
with their bachelors, who We're made
to pay heavy fines; and worse than
that, for, after the siege of Veii Camil-
lus is recorded to have compelled them
to marry the widows of the soldiers
who had fallen in the war. Again, in
the time of Augustus, the married men,
all other things being equal. We're pre-
ferred to the single men for the public
offices. Then the Roman who had
three children was exempted from per-
sonal taxes and the bachelors not only
had to pay them but were prevented
from inheriting the property of anyone
not Roman citizen. Coming to more
recent times, we have several instances
of like kind recorded for us by re-
cent writer on the subject. In the
French settlement of Canada, for ex-
ample, women were sent over after the
men, and the single men, that they
might be forced to marry, were sub
jected to heavy taxation and to restric-
tions on their trade and movements
generally. Those who married were
dealt with on the other hand in a gen.
erous spirit. Not only We're they pro-
vided with good wife and a comfort
able home, but they We're rewarded ac-
cording to the number of their Off
spring. The father of ten children, for
instance, was pensioned for life at the
rate of 300 livres a year. If he had
twelve children he had 100 livres a year
more, and the amount ran up to 1,20C
livres a year when fifteen children
blessed the union. About the close OF
the seventeenth century the local au-
Of a acth n a in 10 mol ~ tfe
voted that every unmarried man in the
township should kill six blackbirds o,
three crows yearly as long as he re.
mained SINGLE producing the scalps In
proof; and, as penalty DIR not obeyine
the order, he was forbidden to marry
until he had made up all arrears. The
requirements here are almost nominal
but 1t was somewhat different in Mary.
land where half century later the
colonial assembly imposed a tax of
shillings yearly upon all bachelors ovei
30-as well as upon widows without
chidren--who were possessed of $500
In England, in the days Of william III.
any commoner who remained single al
25 had to pay shilling fine yearly, ant
the amount increased with rank ant
title. A duke was supposed to be q
special offender in not taking a wife
and had to pay for his whim to the ex
tent of f12 los per annum.
AUERBACHS BABY:
You haf not seen him? Ach, men herr,
Besser you lose you zwanzlg year
Your life oud aber miss das dear,
Das kleine kind, my baby.
When vitsles blow by efening time
| Und fon work. come kvick zu heim
Eef you could see him creep to climb
My knees oup-dot schmall baby!
His fingers aur mine eye he stdicks.
| He rumps mine hair und crows und kicks
Und plays hundred funny dricks
Like dot, my leedle baby.
On kaltes night bout dhree o'clock
| He dries to wake oudt half dher block,
Und must walk und walk und walk
| Nit dot schmaal rascal baby. 4
| I sing him auf dot lullaby
| Undlll my dhroad vas cracking dhry,
Und coax him dot he close his eye
Und go to sleep, my baby.
| Dhen roundt my neck he makes his arm,
| So schubby, dimpled, soft und warm
| o, may dhere neffer come some harm
To dot schmall. leedle baby!
| Charles Eugene Banks.
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