Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-16
NATAL DAY.
Relatives and Friends Of Mrs.
n. L. RosenthaI Unite to
do Her Honor.
Or. seanHKS xQulaIt Pom

A very pleasant and joyful occasion
- being celebrated today ut the resi-
dence Of Mrs. N. l.. Rosentnai. y
II the natal day Of the lady men
nmol
Annually ON the 18th day Of May
10 sons and daughters and ell the
grandchildren gather and bring tokens
u love and genuine affection in the
shane q beautiful trinkets. ornamen-
IA and useful articles to their beloved
1othcr and grandmother, and the
rooms are adorned with plants. roses
carnations and violets, the beauty
I'D sweet fragrance Of which make
~ abode appear : Garden Of Eden.
But not only the immediate mem
asrs Of the family circle render no
mage TO their beloved one: her numer'
- friends In the city do likewise
md participate to . greater or less
Degree BY honoring the esteemed and
vsnerated lady, whose life and char,
actsr are q sweet and pure ~ that
q m innocent little girl. Such domes-
TIC festivities breathe q magic charm
they are like uases In the desert OF
Ma.
Mrs.. Rosenthal was the recipient
~ exquisite and valuable gifts. too
numerous to mention: one, however,
The Optic wishes to name. II being
aAe gift Of her friend, DR.. Bonnheim'
This Is an exquisite German poem
. s0nnet-composed by him for the
occasion. What, makes the compost
1ion more difficult Is the fact that this
SONNET Is Il the same time an ~acrostic,
hearing the name OF the recipient, !, g,
.Hulda Rosenthal." It must be re-
membered that q true sonnet is Q rath-
cr difficult form Of poetry and not so
easily composed; the arrangement OF
the rhyme cannot be written lad lib
hum" 1t must not only have four
tsen lines Of equal length, but Its con
Utruction and the arrangement Of It's
rhymes must conform to a prescribed
pattern called after Petrarch italian
p0et, 1304sl374). A regular sonnet
consists Of two quatrains lin which
Tho nrst, fourth. NTH and eighth lines
sAyme together. and likewise the sec
uud. third, sixth and SEVENTH, fol-
bowed by two tercets lin which the
ninth. eleventh and thirteenth lines
xAyme together, and likewise the
Hsnth. twelfth and fourteenth. In or
ar to Illustrate. The Optic gives the
pOcm in full for the beneit Of lis Ger
nan readers:
.Heut' ellen Soehn' und Toechter gum
haeuslichen Altar.
Um der theuren Mutter, dem Geburts-
~tagskinde.
IAsbevoll III widmen schotne Ange-
bindo,
Dans sic, die des Hauses zierde list
und war,
Anrs Neue sich erfreue. vie In zedem
Jahr.
zeOsen-N eIkcn-v en.Pracht der
Kinder Lieb'verkucnde.
q. dass sic fernerhin der Freuden
viele fnde
xseibst i'm hohen Alter, wenn silber.
weiss ihr Haar.
Es wolfe auch der Herr in seiner gros.
sen Gnade
MIGHT mchr betrueben sic init Kun
NOR, Gram und Schmerz
Thraenen moeg' Err trocknen. ebnen-
ihre Pfade
3aeiter hire zukunft sci, erfreue stets
ihr Herr
Auf solche Weise moege sic GRETCHEN
das Gestxde
aDdsingend ihrcm Schocpfer und
schaucn himmclwaerts.
The writing Is a beautiful piece OF
usnmanship, very artistically design
- II IL mounted ON card board Of
~ b. rs inches. on the top of which
utaad prominently the words "MasscI
s1Uuf" In Hebrew characters, with q
nvc1poiuted star on each side. (The
Dcrds signify congratulation.) The
aerostic IL In old English letters three
CHARTERS Of an inch in height, aud are
~ beautiful indeed.
~ Optic joins the many well