The Worcester spy., 1901-11-04
Out And About

Where have they vanished, the mys-'
terious lands,
Which oft, far-off beholden, bathed
in gold,
With genii and wonders manifold,
And great palms towering from burn
ing, sands,
We fashioned with imaginations
hands
From unforgotten legends, strangely
old?
Where have they vanished ?-Science,
swift and bold,
Has torn the fairy fabric into strands.
Yet we have stolen from the coming
years
The undiscovered realms that once
were ours,
Not in revolt; but conscious that the
hours
Hold rich requital for old hopes and
fears;
And in these changes unperturbed we
see
The patient purpose of Divinity.
Felix N Gerson in
Lippincott's Magazine.
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Speaking of pronunciation, I have
been interested to notice, since recent
events have made the institution and
it's ruling spirits subjects for their ami
mated conversation, how widely people
differ in the calling of the name rus
kegee Of every ten persons I have
heard speak the word, at least SIX
gave the accent to the last syllable,
and pronounced the "g'' with the soft
81" sound Even of those who gave
the penult its proper stress, the major
ity persisted in the soft "g." There was
even one woman. an Englishwoman, I
think, who called it "Tewskegy," with
the accent on the "Tews." On the au-
thority of a man who was born and
reared not 20 miles from the school,
am enabled to state that the local pro-
nunciation is and always has been,
with a short Gu" a penultimate ac-
cent and "g" like the "g'' in get"
Washington Post.
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Do men marry to get wife to share
their Joys, or to bear half their sor-
rows? In a word, in marrying are men
altruistic or selfish?
The mere idea of man voluntarily
assuming a woman's bills seems to in
dicate an angelic spirit of self-abne-
CATION. but the weight Of evidence goes
to show that, as long as he has got
ANYTHING worth dividing, he is pretty
much given to keeping it all to hlm-
self.
More men marry to get somebody to
sympathize with them and suffer with
them than to get a companion on a
prosperity pilgrimage. They can go
that alone.
This is sufficiently proved by the fact
that matrimony is epidemic among the
poor. while it is always more or less
sporadic among the rich.
The man who can give woman cake
70 hpr "a
who stands a good chance of starving
her. and, in a general way, 1t may be
said that the less prepared man is to
enter into the holy bonds of matrimo-
nv. the more sure he is to do it.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The origin of guipure lace is wrapped
in mystery, but in the village where it
is made it is related that centuries ago
a certain Venetian sailor returned from
a voyage in Eastern waters and
brought to his betrothed. a worker in
needle point, a bunch of the beautiful
and delicate coraline. which he told
her was the lace made by mermaids
living in the coral caves of the Indian
seas
pretty as It is" said the girl ct
will make something far prettier with
nv needle and my bridal veil shall be
of mermaid's lace"
The sailor lad went off on another
long voyage and during the months Of
his absence the girl worked day after
dav with her needle, forming white
dots and tiny stars and uniting them
with delicate brides till at last an
exquisite scarf of guipure was pro-
duced. which was so beautiful that
when she wore it as a bridal veil all
Venice spoke of it in glowing terms of
admiration, and many noble and royal
women became patronesses Of the
young lacemaker.
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The Woman's Association Of central
Church will meet Tuesday afternoon in
the church parlors at 8 o'clock. The
members will be addressed by Mrs. J:
H. Robinson on the Consumers
League" and by Miss Estelle Potter on
the Boys Club"
Elnora Monroe Babcoek, superintend-