The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-02-07


handiwork Of them ana OF the res,
many Of whom have carved thel
names. aa on that table. deep lnts
England's roll Of fame.
Thomas Hoods Song OF the Shirt
Sas one OF Punch's great successes. and
n this table lts merits we're first ais,
1ussed. A woman. with a hali-slarveo
infant al the breast was charged al
The Lambeth Police Court with pawn.
Ing her masters goods. for which she
had 10 give e security. Her husband
had died by an accident. and had lef,
her with two children 10 Euppors. and
she obtained By her needle for the
maintenance Of herself and family
what her master called the good llv-
Ing Of 7 shiIllnFs a week. Punch was
a. once aglow with red-hot indignation.
and In an article entitled Famine and
Fashion" proposed an advertisement
such as this for the arm that employed
her.
Holland coats from two and three are
shown
BY Hungers hagEaFd fingers neatly
sewn.
Embroidered tunIes for your infant
made
The eyes are sighiless now that worked
the braid:
Rich vests Of velvet Al this mar, an
pear.
Each one bedinm'd by some poor wld-
owls tear:
And riding habits formed for maid or
wife.
All eheap-aye, ladies', cheap a. pauper
life.
For mourning suits this ls the Citing
mart.
For every garment heip'd to break a
heart.
The subject touched Hood more pow
erfuily. perhaps. than others. for HE
nature was essentially grave and sym.
pathetic. AZ be himself has said. Il
vas only for his livelihood that be vas
a lively Hood. although he wa always
brlmming over with c5mlcalltles and
he never feil more deeply the dlgn.,
Of his profession ana his own force ana
weight than when he was engarod on
serious work. So Hood cdnIured M
bis Song Of the Shirt" maved by the
revelations Of poor scamsiresses who
az Il appeared. 5 farthlnrs a
shirt. out OF which sum they had to
End their own needles Mark Lemon
iold AR. Joseph Haiton that Hood had
accompanied the poem with a few
lines In which he expressed the fear
hat 4 was hardly suitable for Punch
md. leaving Il between hls discretion
Ind the wasle-papcr basket" Il had
aid Hood. already bern rejected hy
hree papers and be vas alok Of the
Iieht Of H. Mark Lemon brought the
'oem up Al the table" where the ma.
ori,y Of the star protested arains, i,s
Inclusion In comic paper. but Lemon
vas determined and after an was 4, moi
or Christmas number that he de,.
med it-a number IN which something
erious. pathetic. with a note Of pliy
nd love. vas surely not out Of placer
The effect Of lts publication uns trs-
itndous. The poem went through the
md liNe wildhrc. Nearly every papor
uoied H. headed By the Tlmes: n wan
be talk Of the hour. the taxi OF the
ountry. Il went straight TO John Bnlrs
md, bourgeois. sympathetic hear. lust
Carlyle declared that Ruskln's
ulha had "plerced Ike arrows" into
u. The authorship. too. was vlror.
isly canvaased with Intense Interest
iekons. with that keen Insight and
.llical faculty which had enabled him
most alone among literary experts 10
'toci the sex Of George Eliot. then an
lknOwn writer. wa one OF
70 few who AZ once named the writer
the verses. And Il was well for
God that be had proof OF the author
ln. Tor one OF the most curious thlnrs
INJECTED with the poem was the mum.
u OF persons who had the incomprs-
nsihlo audaelly 10 claim q.
Punch shared handsomely IN the
DRY Of the poet and lls circulation
piled on the strcngth Of Il. And Mrs.
BOD. poor soul. trlumphed IN her
ophecy; for had she not said and
lintalned In spite Of each successive
lection from foolish editors. Nov c
md. Hood, mark my words: this q
II tell wonderfully Il Il one Of the Z
Il things you ever dld." And 90 this G
ng. which In spite Of lts defects sim
riils you AZ you read. achieved such Z
popularity that for sudden and en- Z
iaiaslic applause lls reception has a
ely been eQualed Il was soon trans. g
20 Into every language IN Europe
God used 10 laugh a. he wondered d
= they would render seam and gus. n
and band" Into Dutch. Il was print. h
and nold a. calchpenules. printed a