Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-20
EVOLUTION OF EUGENE FIELD.
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Ice cold tea was the dreadful cause,
Nature avenged her outraged laws,
Neuralgia welded the deadly blow.
And the man-oh, the man Of the whIs-
Ky sour,
He's living and prosperous this very
And he struck It rich in Gunnison
mine.
It's always the same with ice and men,
It's nice to be giddy now and then:
Take you death in tea, and your life
in wine.
"Apple Blossoms" Is the predecessor
Of THE Little Peach" In the case Of
"Our Little Tom"
"The days passed on and the weeks
passed on,
"And the blossom into an apple grew
when along came Tom and gobbled 1t
down.
Skin. stem and core and the green
seeds too.
"Our little Tommy has angel wings
"And he hops around in the golden
sky.
ITS 70 be presumed he sweetly sings
"0f apple blossoms In the BY and
BY"
In the later tragedy;
Under the turf where the daisies grew
They planted John and his sister Sue
And their little souls to the Angels
flew
Boo hool"
The esthetc feelings OF the eastern
critic revolted against this gruesome
levity. and they castlgated Field qua
kenshly for having preserved "The Lit
tie Peach" in his Little Book Of West
ern Verse" They simply failed to
grasp the motive. Field wrote these
trihlng anti-clmaxes for the wit Of
children more than for the delectation
Of maturity Most of them were tried
first on the imagination Of his own
children. The night he heard Marie
Jansen sing "A Little Peach with the
nterpolated negro refrain Listen 10
My Tale Of Woe" | CHANGED to have
been with him. He hurried from the
AH'hANl hAAhl Allt hi0l NflNf ldh hfNll
rendered, and upon reaching the side
walk breathed an expletye that is re-
garded as classic nowhere outside OF
Rabelias, and the field Of Waterloo.
Gradually he refined his method Of APP
peal 10 the sense Of the grotesque IN
childhood, as witness the shudderful
climax Of the great lnanlmate duel:
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is fhfgt nb.ts 20
Now what do you think Of that?"
During the Anglo Egyptian trouble
Field recorded 'The Fate Of Tomato
Kahn" as follows:
Old Ragbag Bey, a venerable man,
Arose one morning and to his servant
said
Send hither. slave, my son, Tomato
Kahn,
If, by the Prophets beard, he's out Of
bed"
Tomato Kahn responded in all haste.
And, kneeling on the earth before his
sire,
Kissed thrice his feet. and clinging tC
his waist,
why hast thou called?" respectful
did inquire.
"Mush Allahl" cried the old man in a
breath,
"our country is in dire complaint
see,
On every hand is desolation, DEATH
And she demands a sacrifice Of me.
From Am el Telba unto Goghars wall
From Batra's palms to Ondig's sandy
plain,
I hear the roll of drum, the trumpets
CALL
The clash of arms and wars intense
refrain.
Bind on this scimiter, my son, and go
This day to Goghar on thy fiery
dauntness steed,
Join thou the army Of the Faithful
show
Thy zest for Allah in thy country
hour OF need"
Tomato Kahn bound on old Ragbag S
sword.
His love, the fair Amirie, begged him
stay,
In vain the maiden wept, in vain i'm
plored.
Tomato Kahn strobe on his vengeful
way.
lie did not die. as Ragbag hoped he
might,
Nor as Amrle thought a warrior
should,
He did not perish on the field Of fight
No Christian hands are reeking with
his blood
Kicked by a mule, he fell at Sneeze-el-
Snuff.
A cheap. Arabian mule a vulgar
beast,
He family murmured, "Allahl this is
rough!' o.
And then the throbbings OF his sick
heart ceased.
SO, for his country died Tomato Kahn.
A youth equipped for great, chiyalric
scenes,