The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-24
THE COUNTRY TOWN.

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THE COUNTRY TOWN.
It's common to sneer at the country town,
With its quiet streets and its peaceful air,
Where the little river meanders down
To be lost in the broad, blue sea some
where
As we who think we are wise are lost
In the roaring city that, like the sea,
Has its ebb and flow, with its millions
tossed
AS bubbles robbed Of identity.
There's fellowship in the country town,
With Its empty streets and its spreading
trees,
Where the country song birds MARBLE down
At maids as fair as man ever sees;
Where the wind blows sweet from the fields
nearby,
Where men know the names which the
neighborS bear.
Where man is N SSed when he's gonetolie
with the peceinl ones who have ceased
to care.
There are joys out there in the country
town
That we of the city may never learn
In the rush for money and for renown.
Confronting strangers where'er we turn.
Oh, wasn't Gods world serene and fair
In the country town ere we came away:
And won't 1t be sweet to sleep out there,
Far from the citv's roar some day?
Chicago Record-H erald
Dcnison has a famine and Its right
in our midst too. We are sorry to
report that help is not at hand either.
The long vail you hear is because
of this famine. How is a class of
seventeen lovely girls to graduate
without long gloves? How is the
June bride to embark upon her happy
life without elbow length-tell the
chatting dish that and it will tell you
"why is hem or some other deep
unsolved mystery.
With May the hearts of most men
and women turn to thoughts of maxi
ing things grow. Very happily timed
then is the May Century's garden
number - beautiful with garden
pictures, and with rich list of ''gar-
den'' features from such authorities
as Frances Duncan. author of "Mary's
Garden and How 1t Crew." George
w. Gable, the Hon Francis E.
Leupp, Helen Evertson Smith, and,
from Luther Burbank, a discussion
of "The Training of the Human
Plant. -
The verdure of May and June could
not be more luxuriant nor could the
blossoms and flowers of plants and
shrubs and trees be more varied in
variety or attractive in beauty than
the art and literary features of the
scores and hundreds of weekly and
monthly publications issued in those
months. The modern magazine pub
Usher is more and more preparing the
contents OF his magazine with refer
ence to the month in which it is to
be published. The May issues have
been particularly beautiful and in
harmony with the spring suggestions
of the month, and prospectuses for
the June issues are full of promises
for exceptional artistic and literary
excellence.
Lillian Whitlng's 1.-The Joys That
no Man Taketh From You,'' softly
repeated man the other day in a
local bookshop. Her pompadour and
switch suppose it MEANS, )" he said
with an air of conviction.
In Harlan-The Woman's Union,
composed of federated clubs, but it.
self not federated, has planted vines
around the court house. given school
children seeds and offered prizes for
the best flower garden and has kept
flowers in the Post Office window.
This year the Unions efforts are
to be directed toward the improve
ment of the cemetery.
DOES AN EDUCATION PAY?
Success Magazine.)
Does it pay an acorn to become an oak:
Does it pay to fit oneself for superior
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