Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-07-31
An AUleIlde.

The following lines are accorded
space not so much on account OF any
literary or other merit their writer
may imagine they possess as to meet
an implied obligation to correct the er-
rors of which she, perhaps justly, COM
plains. In order not to aggravate the
otiense, this effusion is published rer-
batim ct Hteratim, ct punctuatim, as far
as can be determined by the chirogra-
ply. 1t will be observed that the tai
ented contributor has used a clothes
line and peck-measure, indiscrimi-
nately in adjusting her metrical feet,
and that her Pegasus seems to fly a
little lop-sided; but these may be re-
garded as minor considerations, when
the theme is so absorbing as to induce
oblivion of such commonplace envir-
onments as the rules OF prosody and
syntaX:
Mr. Editor oil the standard E0Ou morning
\ short interview grant l pray
Will briefly make known my crrand
Then speed from your presence away
Now please do not look SO Disguised
Saying, more poetical trash | yum
For not to tire you with poeticul nonsense
But TO correct some mistakes do come
In my previous poem appeared SO many
One could scarcely fail to heed
So plainly apparent each became
That cen one running might read
In true kindness do seek corrections
TO find fault is far from my mind
With either Mr. Editor or Typo
For both are invariably kind
But you know We would all at our best appear
When before the public arrayed
and when our efforts at best appear unsatisfac'
Fen appalling worse. through mistakes are
made
All. that close written sheet seemed a task too
great
To decpher with care guess
And while few men care aught for poetry
Many more about it, know still less
Now the word "sentimentalists,, should senti-
mcnts read
Which changes the meaning you'll find
For none are sentimentalists assure you
But creatures of practical mind
While reading sturdy what ?, one might say
Mr. Typo the labor and the heat il to much
Causing mistakes to be made in this way
Then "hobble, for noble 'of., for at
Letters omitted or added are found
Here is hub, for hut. why in the arctic region
Has it thawed TO the hubs of the ground?
THE poor Esquimaux loves his icy hut
The paragraph plainly should read
For of his ley hut and raindeer paths
Historians have ever agreed
eminent danger her life, should read, immi-
nent,
Eminent men and women are seen of course
But we fail TO see where life is made emil
nent
In riding behind fractions horse
Yet one more Followed, for hallowed we find
Character hallowed by chistian faith, it should
be
Please when making grammatical corrections
For the better and not for the worse let us See
To the waste basket, now do not consign me
Or say cross things, or look askance
And may, II you have nothing better
Contribute short verse ON finance
Now don't say tits a subject of which we know
naught
For all women will contend
Can fathom the deepest pocket book
and finances properly spend
While some cen in political sense
The subject have fairly begun
and can ably discuss with stronger minds
The mOmentous theme of l6 to !.
But, II in verse, don't attempt TO change 1t
Ills bad enough when remaining the same
And if not exactly proper
We will willingly bear the blame
Mrs t Hussett
Olympia