The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-04-23
GROWING Gray.


A little more toward the lixht.
Me miserum. Here's one that's white.
And one that's turning;
Adieu To song and salad DAYS"
My Muse, let's go at once to Jays
Ana order mourning.
Renounce the gay fo- the severe ''"''
BE grave, not witty.
W, We have no more the right to find
That Pyrrha's hair Ia neatly twined
Ihat Chloes pretty.
Young Loves for us a farce that's played:
Light canzonet and serenade
No more may tempt us:
From aught but sour didactic themes
Our years exempt us.
"A Ia bonne heurer' You fancy SO?
fou mink for one white streak We grow
a hiddlestickl Each hairs a string
To which our sraybeard muse shall sing.
younger lyric.
Our hearts still sound Shall cakes and
Grow rare to your because we rail
AT schoolbcs dishes?
Perish the thou At, Ills ours to sing
Though neither fine nor Tide can bring
Belief with wishes.
Austin Dobson.
Do Not Urge Your Child.
IL your child cannot concentrate its
mind or commit to merory without
great difficulty, or II 1t seems back
ward do not Urge It to study. No de.
velopment which is forced is natural
or normal. The mind may be develop.
Ing unevenly, says Success. When
the brain cells are more fully deve-
oped and the nerve cells more mature
the faculties will balarre and the
child will become normP', evenly de.
veloped But he must be encouraged
instead of being discouraged for 9TH
erwise the result may be disastrous
1t Is cruel to keep telling a child that
he Is dull or stupid, or that he is not
like other children. The dlscouraging
pictures thus impressed uron his plas.
tic mind will cling to it and become
indelible In the brain of the main and
handicap him for life.
What Might Have Been.
An undertaken and certain girl
were engage to be married. For some
unknown reason, like many cases of
first love, they drifted apart, and both
married in dif7erent, directions. Years
rolled on. One night the undertaken
was officially sent for, and found him
self In the home of his former sweet
heart. who was weeping over the re-
mains of her husband, who had just
died after long illness. He stepped
softly to her side, and with hand on
her shoulder offered his sympathy In
the most serious loss that could befall
woman. She ceased crying for q mo-
ment, dried her eyes, looked up In
his face. ad said: Just think, Charlie,
this might have been you. "-Clevelsnd
Leader.
So Kind to the Girl.
Yes. daughter is going abroad to
continue her studies in singing" I'm.
deed?" Yes. Everybody In our fat
contributed to a fund to send her to
Berlin. They were all so kind. They
wanted her to go as soon as possible,
and some Of them said they'd be glad
to send her still further. And when
asked them II they wouldn't miss
her voice they admitted that they
would for time. And then they
quickly added that, of course. this
mustn't stand in the way of her 20.
ing And old Mr.. Bascomb said in
his serious voice: What Is our gain
= Perlin's loss OF course he meant
1t the other way. He's so funny.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Sweetest Gift cf Love.
What shall I give her-my little girl
With the soft dark eyes ana ,ne siken
net
Of tresses. with many a bright curl?
What shall | give her-my love, my net? |
What shall ] give her OF beauty ant rs
10 match the bright curls that she gives
me to kiss?
My love. have given her that! tits old |
Old AS her life. though her face Is
have given my darling my heart to r0,d, |
With the sweetest songs that my heart |
has sunyi
There Is nothing to give her save only
this
The kiss on the curls that she gives me
to kiss!
She Is climbing up to my arms-I zee i
The light OF heaven In her lovely eyes; |
Over the face and
Curl on curl In
Nothing to give
The kiss on the me |