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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1916
Page
22
A collage of verse excerpts including Christina Rossetti’s Who has seen the wind and James Hogg’s A Boy's Song, followed by a chastened wartime fragment describing a massacre of birds and human carnage. The piece closes with a note To be continued.
A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge urges shepherds to leave home and hunt the wolf in the woods. Dames and lasses are called to tend flocks while crickets and mice keep watch at the hearth. A sunny seat for granny awaits with babe and lambkin.
The speaker H. W. Longfellow advocates gentleness mercy and reverence, while questioning leaders who contradict these teachings. The crowd reacts with a murmur as farmers display skepticism toward sentiment over tangible farming interests and a separate unseen audience is noted for lacking voice in law.
Kipling-like poem praising British soldiers and the Overland Mail, mixing a postal rider’s endurance with a humorous homage to Fuzzy-Wuzzy. It juxtaposes Indian frontier imagery, colonial battles, and a comic chorus about a bushman fighter and brave troops.
Readable lines describe a seafaring chorus praising a brisk wind and the freedom of the sea. The verse emphasizes gale force winds, rocking masts, and a crew in high spirits aboard a fast, sturdy ship bound for distant waters.
Morton Fuller ton and other Harvard alum in Paris form a group to collect and distribute French war posters in Harvard clubs across New York Chicago San Francisco New Orleans and beyond The first collection is out and a second featuring Abel Faivre Poulbot Ferrain Willette and others is planned The aim is to show Americans the French character and wartime spirit through art
Brackenridge High School's Maeterlinck Dramatic Club staged three French style pieces on Wednesday. Elizabeth Joyce led as Henrietta with Zay Smith as Albert and James Dugger as Jacques. Erna Schoenfield and Louis Gwinn performed a dialogue segment. A two act French comedy closed the program with Beatrice Dugger Travis Moursound George Meyers and Frances Kroeger in principal parts.
The Philo mathean Debating Club of Main Avenue High School completes plans for a decorated float in green and white snowballs with living snowballs in green dresses and poke bonnets. Outriders will represent three school boys clubs in white with green accents. Named participants include Vernon Hightower Bernardine Appleby Louise Lucas Ruth Baily Helen Bates Lucille Swift Margaret Johnson Ruth Roby Lorraine Bailey Ernestine Riley Margaret Church Elizabeth Church Thelma Van Riper Martha Bradshaw Helen
Robert Joyce and William Hankln from Congress along with Alfred L Appleby Lee Roy Smith and W T Strange from the Jeffersonian Club participate. Outriders attend a Philomathean picnic supper and dance at Miss Margaret Church home. PhilomathEan meeting features a debate on presidential election by popular vote with Everly Wise vs Van Riper Mason. Everly Van Riper Wise tie for best speaker. Ethel Huse adds an extemp address on Our Recent Ultimatum to Germany.
A 25 foot tropical snake buried in a Kobe Suma garden after its death on the calendar day of a snake. Visitors believe the tomb cures toothache and flock weekly to the pine grove near the restaurant, boosting profits and plans for a shrine.
An April letter from the Anglican bishop for Northern and Central Europe to the London bishop commends Germany for humane treatment of clergy and English prisoners. It notes Berlin’s church remains open, a Berlin pastor holding three services weekly, and visits to Ruhleben and Doeberitz camps plus thirty nine other prison camps with courtesy from authorities. The piece also recalls postwar gratitude toward German officials and citizens. The text closes with a reference to the 1870 71 war and the French indemnity of 1 billion dollars paid in 1873.
Berlin reports the Twenty fourth Brandenburg infantry, which seized Fort Douaumont near Verdun, was the final German unit to depart France after a campaign.
In Wuerzburg a French prisoner received a two week furlough to visit his dying father in Dordogne and returned as scheduled. In Augsburg the German camp commander granted a Bavarian soldier a two week visit to see his ill mother, in reciprocal gesture.
Dialogue captures a boy and his father in a tense exchange about a mischief claim. Bobby questions why the father allowed calls to defeat him, while the father asserts the prior statement that Bobby could not be beaten for mischief, prompting a confrontational moment.
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