The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-06-04
WOMEN'S CLUB LIFE
In GUTHRIE
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were the possessors Of many jewels.
one Of which, fawles gem, we place
before your eyes:
Therefore. to be possessed with double
pomp-
To guard a title that was rich before,
TO gild refined gold to paint the lily.
90 throw perfume on the violet
To smooth the Ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow. or with taper light
no seek the beauteous eye of Heaven
to garnish.
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
We were next introduced TO King
Richard II, and although we realized
the fact that his majesty was lack
ing in many of the requisites of o
great men by whom he was surround-
ed. Wanting in hxity of purpose. In
frmness, courage and executive abil-
ity the handsome, graceful boy who
ascended the throne as Richard II re
NAMED a boy throughout his reign
20, but they say the tongues Of dying
men
Enforce attention like deep harnpyy"
Were the words of John Of Gauut
when. upon his death bed, he stroye
TO show Richard his own perilous sn
dition. and the great wrong re ~ns
doing England and the English PEG
pie. but The counsel Of the loyal, old
scion Of Edward III was received a.
the words Of a "Lunatic, lean witte /
fool. presuming on an ague's priy.i-
ege" as his nephew rushed headlong
to his doom. It is here we first meet
the brilliant and imeptuous Hotspur
and the discerning Bolingbroke who
becomes king almost before we say
"adieu" to Richard And now we
are permitted to follow the reign Of
a king of strength. From Che time of
his bauishmet as Bolingbroke by
Richard IT, Henry IV had looked for
ward to the possession of the crown,
and had bent all his energies to ac-
oomplish that end. One cannot fail
to have the greatest admiration for the
intellect that grasps and controls sit
uations, performs what it intends, for
sees tn outcome, and moycs on 10
success. With Henry Nv there was nc
vacillatIng. Once formed and TO N
ed with thought and care his plans
were, there was no turning back, and
his policies were those of at states
r2a rather than those ia politician
OF opposition he had no lack, and
we feel the great burden he is bear
ing when in the stillnes of the night
we hear him utter these words:
90 sleep o gentle sleep.
Natures soft nurse, how have
frighted thee
That thou no more wilt weigh my eve
lids down
And steep my senses in forgetful-
ness?'
His poorest subjects" are enjoying
what he, a king is unable to obtain
But harder to endure than all else be
sides is the disappointment in his son
the prince Henry. Undeniably way
ward and wild, he vas at heart noble
and true as his after life attested. an
the ray of sunshine that frightened
Tho last hours Of the kings life WI.
the insight into hi sson's true chrac
ter that their reconciliation made pos
sible for him to see.
The Incompatible Falstaff furnish
ed us much merriment while iinger
ing at the court of Henry w, and nc
better illustration of the chang il
his treatment, after he became king
of Falstafr-
Il kI Wv thee not old man; fall to tn,
rayers;
TIC i'll white hairs become a fool an,
sterl"
and unfeeling as it appears. +
iecessary for with Falstaff. over
flowing sa he was with good felowship
there could be no middle ground
They must be absolutely strangers
But before God. Kate, canno
look greenly nor gasp out my ele
quence, nor | have no cunning in pro
testatons; only downright oaths
which never use till urged. nor neye
break for urging I speak to the plaii
soldier; If thou canst love me TO
this, take me; il not, to say to the
that shall die. is true; but for tn,
love, by the Lord, no; yet love thee
too"
(, unique way OF making love bu
it won, an whether urging his soldier
by inspiring words and example % L
victory or pressing his sui with tn
fair Katherine, we found Henry :
honest and open, fearless and irr,
sistable. and now we are brought t