The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-27
n KIss BLANCHE SHOEMAKER, as a debutante, kno
V in fashionable New York society circles pror
4 = Ing When he Alfred Waxst

mi in fashionable York society very promis
poetess When she married Alfred Wagstan
1r expressed sentiments with poetica
phrases Society pretty little love
popular poetess wealthy and fashionable
band building for themselves. ,.,f
l. So they marred-Blanche Alfred-with
setting fashion and social position, the
added distinction which than ordinary
oya poecal dream of hearts united forever
.poeical heaven of undying bliss.
that April, 1907 Blanche
young then Alfred.
young that after ALL world
serious and practical and that have
and do their work and have differences Of opinion and
with each other in spite the
happy dreams of poesy.
indeed, poetical debutante
learned thing a married young
mother child found that the
always square realities everyday
According wfes poeca conceptions
nothing bssfu young
journey along the path Of fe their heads the Clouds
dreaming and loving.
. began
happiness driven poecal heart unhappness
and last the end The divorce courts the
poetical young
baby and her poetry.
And after poetess of Hundred
could another This time Mr. Donald
York broker aroused again the tender feelings which Mr.
wagsta fourteen years Meanwhile
that had passed the society poeess had written
POEMS and had unpub
lshed poems to warrant still another book
AS the wedding day approached for the divorced Mrs. Wag
staff become bride again. the pretty idea
that she would have her poems q the
wedding She selected from bundle of unpu
lshed appropriate poem handed to the
clergyman read which insisted
bridegroom should listen and soemnly This
novelty and the dramatic which the
Mrs Wagsa and Mr. Carr quite unusual last July during their
;. Summer outing al Manchester VT
the heard this
ITO the marriage ceremonial they begged Mrs Wag
Stairs poem which had been made of the wedding
But they told wait until Mrs Wagstas forth
coming new book poems published they
tho Lave in thu
WagstafCarrs book of poems 1t has
been issued from the Mofatt Yard Co. and
called uiet Waters Although Mrs Wagstar is longer
Mrs Wagsaf but Mrs. Carr she chooses to make
mention issues the book under
blanche Shoemaker Wagstaf.
But which poem in the poem which the poetess
picked marriage ceremony?
dgent study of the several dozen little reveals
poems either Of which might have been the which
appropriate her second marriage
yet quite the other One of
Marriage" and the other is called "You Whom
II Love Today-eher one would have been appropriate and
the of this page are printed these two
that lovely sentiment and would have done very
Blanchcs first wedding day At that time the
y the poem states:
s ySq ann a ad turn mns its s Sw1F stream
young poetess was soon to be dslusoned She
e na nav aS de hs
Abut was Domestic
so thoroughly that Blanche up life stream
and her husband that should flow two
streams.
married her first husband
csrelv believed that
trees were united a
her hubby's
to be She had learned that
hearts much dsentangled and travelling
: along separate paths.
She had learned too they bough
in that sacred did last
and bough and the bark and the
fruit however had quite thoroughly sep
arated by their own decSe
through the unpleasant experience of this shat
tered poea conception marriage and having realized that
there word Of truth in Of the charming sentiments
marriage concerned is likely that Mrs.
Wagstan anything from experience
te realize n awful little fbber?
Is It, perhaps, probable that Mrs. Wagstaf
whole lot her first marriage and knew thoroughly
what she in called Marriage"
true at ALL much practical,
which she In the other called you
s~Nhom | Love To-dayT No..
the reader study this second and whether