El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
.REVERED. BELOVED"


Tennyson's Dedication of His Book of
Song" to the Queen.
Revered. beloved-O you that hold
A nobler office upon earth
Than arms. or power of brain. or
birth.
Could give the warrior kings of old.
Victoria-since your royal grace
To one of less dessert allows
This laurel greener from the brows
or him that uttered nothing base;
And should your greatness and the
care
That Jokes with empire yield you
time
To make demand of modern rhyme
If aught of ancient worth be there.
Then-while a sweeter music wakes,
And thro' wild March the throstle
calls.
Where all about your palace walls
The sunlit almond blossom shakes
For tho the faults were thick as dust
In vacant chambers. 1 could trust
Your kindness. May you rule us long,
And leave us rulers of your blood
AS noble to the latest day.
May children of our children say
"She wrought her people lasting good,
"Her court was pure; her life serene;
God gave her peace; her land re-
posed;
Thousand claims reverence
closed
In her as mother. wife and queen;
"And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons when to take
Occasions by the hand, and make
The bonds of freedom wider yet
'By shaping some august decree
Which kept her throne mistaken
Broad based upon her peoples will;
And compassed by the inviolate sea"
A bride. the first of the girls of her
set to get married, was RECALLING the
crowd with profound theories on mar
ital happiness and unhappiness at a
girls luncheon, and all the rest listen
ed with the rapt attention her mates
give to the first married girl.
"Girls, you don't go into daisy fields
and watch sunsets as much as you did
before you were married, and the
young man is not a worm any longer,
crawling in the dust of your opinion.
1t does not take long to get down to
positive decisions about beefsteaks,
and the amiable creature of the be-
trothal days develops a stubborn opin-
ion on such topics as the size of the
spots on dotted swiss bath room cur
tains. You'd never imagine it, girls,
but he does. We live now in an apart
ment, and have barely enough room
to live in and keep my party frocks
and shirt waists, but when we build a
home it is to have a cryery, some place |
where l can go and be absolutely alone |
and have a good cry. You know how |
much good it does one?"
The girls nodded an assent.
We'll. every time l want a good cry,
the amiable creature asks. What is
the matter Mary, have ] done any
thing, has the cook done anything?
No
"-Are you hurt because you did not
get that bonnet
Are you sick, shall I send for your
mother?'
mo
Now, Mary. don't cry, you will
make your eyes red and your head
ache, stop crying Mary.
Il go right on
Man wobbles around useieSSly and
Mary. do tell me what is
the matter
Nothing. 1 can't Isn't anything
yon know IL
Finally after imagining a thousand {
dreadful things and suggesting them
TO me. which makes me cry worse, man {
slams his hat on. slams a word, slams {
the door and goes out, and 1 cry more &
than ever because I married the brutal
thing. Is
"All this could have been obviated.
IL he'd let me go off and have my cry
out l am going to have remote
room with double doors and only one
KEY and that mine. That will be a
real boudoir. Max O'Rell says a II
boudoir comes from the French verb
boulder, to growl or sulk,-and tina: lit
orally translated it is a growlery or
sulkery. Mine is going to be too sweet.
with Pompadour paper and curtains
tied back with pink ribbons, and pink
lights and all, but / shall call it
cryery or weepery and go there and
have my times with myself out. You
can call yours boudoirs or sulkeries or
what you please, but have some Sc
cluded spot and have your crys in
Deace if YOU want to be happy mar
ried.''
The next minute there was CHATTER |
and such a twittering and chirping as
only sparrows and girls can put up.
Only the pinkest girl, twisting her
flashing ring. was quiet and plnker
than ever. She knew she'd need no
eryery.