The Rose and the Youthful Beauty in Waller Verse
Edmund Waller 1605 1687 explores beauty and time in a poem about a rose like a young woman. The speaker urges the beloved to accept youth's charm yet note its fragility and eventual decline.
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
6
Edmund Waller 1605 1687 explores beauty and time in a poem about a rose like a young woman. The speaker urges the beloved to accept youth's charm yet note its fragility and eventual decline.
Mrs. Lacy initially resists Frances and Dick Carstairs engagement but agrees to a one year probation. Frances insists on reform as a condition, Dick vows to change, and the period yields steady behavior leading to a happy marriage and grateful mother.
In a terse dialogue a man questions smoking as a benefit while another replies by denying knowledge, and a mother in a low voice moves to the doorway as the gaslight flickers.
A New York guest recounts a tale of a southern deacon facing hunger yet resisting theft. Reading the parson’s corn crib, he kneels and prays aloud to resist stealing, while the parson’s voice from outside urges him to fill his sack. The anecdote illustrates quick minded faith under pressure.
A Chicago Inter Ocean notice describes a small store near the Union fenot run by a dealer in live frogs and game flak. From this depot trains depart daily for Wisconsin fishing grounds, with fishermen leaving and returning empty handed. Signs on the wall claim the dealer profits mainly from selling fish to those who return empty handed.
A Baltimore Valley observer reports a pear tree in James Goodwin’s yard producing two full crops in one season. The early variety set fruit in May and later bloomed again, yielding a second mature crop atop the first.
A teacher chides James for having his younger sister enter a higher class, noting that their father says girls must be smarter. James defends his sister and mentions their father’s view that a girl being educated proves she can teach.
The fragment talks of frost and longing for songs and talk about alster and frost covering Angus day and a call to hear voices. It reads as a regional vernacular piece with references to frost, ice, and old labor terms.
Letters of admiration pour in from all states praising Peruna as the catarrh remedy. Dr Hartman reports hundreds daily, with endorsements from laborers to preachers and governors. The ad urges keeping Peruna at home to prevent colds and other winter ailments and to request Hartman’s free book Chronic Catarrh.
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