Tag Archive for: Family
The Family Reading-Table
Family and RelationshipsThe Family Reading-Table
3444
Father's busy roading of "The Graft That's All About":
Mother's wondering when the next magazine comes out;
Aunty hasn't finished with "The Lifting of the r Lid,"
Little Johnny's busy with "The Life of Captain…
A Memory
Family and RelationshipsA Memory
Emily Sargent Lewis
572
My mother died when I was four,
That's why I can't remember more
Of what she used to do and say
So long ago I'm six to-day
I know one day she climbed with me,
Way up into the apple tree,
The flowers fell…
A Very Conservative Man
Family and RelationshipsA Very Conservative Man
1156
He doesn't believe half the stories he
hears-
He's a very conservative man
The papers, he says, spread unwarranted
fears-
He's a very conservative map
The troubles we hear of he mlidly de
clares,
Most often are…
Vassar Faith
Family and RelationshipsVassar Faith
5441
With my faith in the destiny of woman's higher education thus rudely shattered,
I rested for a moment near an open window of
Main, from which floated the clear tones of a musical
Freshman, who seemed to be practicing the…
The Open Door
Family and RelationshipsThe Open Door
3435
Young Mother Hubbard, two years wed,
Left one day all alone
In Husband's mother's house, observed
Poor Fido beg a bone
So to a cupboard straight she hied
And, flinging back the deal door wide,
Let loose not one bone,…
A Familu Club Lyric
Urban LifeA Family Club Lyric
403
At a Family club jinks last
week Larry Harris made his bow
as a lyric writer Nothing preten
tious did Larry serve up for the
edification of his club pals, but in
his jingles he gave expression to
a sentiment that…
Baby In Church
Family and RelationshipsBaby In Church
416-1
Aunt Nellie bad fashioned a dainty thing
Of Hamburg and ribbon and lace,
And mamma had said, as she settled it round
Our beautiful baby's face,
Where the dimples play and the laughter
Hes Like sunbeams hid in her…
The Reason For It
Family and RelationshipsThe Reason For It
4866
For It Although she braved the breakers,
She couldn't swim at all,
But when she donned her bathing suit
And flung aside her shawl
And in the sand disported
To show her ankie trim
This girl of ancient family
Was…
Misrepresetative Women
Family and RelationshipsMisrepresetative Women
907
Harry Graham in two previous books
has provided much sport for those fond
of humorous verse His new book,
"Misrepresentative Women," is equally
entertaining and it is well illustrated
by Dan Sayre Groesbeck The…
“Where Do You Go From Here?
Family and Relationships"WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE?
4003
Human nature is pretty much alike the world over and all of the family are more or less curious in regard to circuses and circus people and natur ally ask questions of various kinds concerning when …
Fuller And Warren
Family and RelationshipsFuller and Warren
1274
Te sons of Columbia, your attention I crave
While & sorrowful altty I tell
Which happened of late in old Initiana state
Of a hero whom fow could excel
Ilks Ramson, be courted the foy of his life
And intended to make…
The Girl Who Used To Be
Family and RelationshipsThe Girl Who Used to Be
1212
Here's an end to loving; here we part," you say;
"Life, the cruel master, has to have his way
We have had our pleasant vision, you and I-
Now the daylight calls me: I must say good-by"
Glib your tongue to frame…
A Child’s Prayer
Family and RelationshipsA Child's Prayer
1222
Father, while I pray to Thee,
May Thy love descend on me;
I am but a little child,
Make me strong and pure and mild;
Pardon every wrong I do,
Help me love the good and true;
From Thee comes my dally food,
Loving…
A Family,
Family and RelationshipsA Family
4001
Whenever a man's to be shot in the back
And the shooter escape by a hypocrite's tack:
When a bully is wanted to stand in the dark
And without word or warning, to make for his mark
One unsuspecting, unknowing, unarmed,
All…
The Thoughtless Farmer
Family and RelationshipsThe Thoughtless Farmer
5978
A Parody-Speech for a Boy
A thoughtless farmer so they say,
Carelessly threw his crops away;
So far beyond his reach they flew,
The farmer knew not what to do
For in them was a season's work, Ills family's toil,…
The Secret Of It
Family and RelationshipsThe Secret of It
575
My love has often said to me, "My love I know you're plain;
But married life with you, my sweet, has brought me naught but gain
Let other women sing and dance, or even write a book,
Yet you're above them all in charm- remember,…
Kiss Her
Family and RelationshipsKiss Her
574
At the last annual dinner of the
Friendly Hans of St Patrick, In
New York, Thomas Augustin Daly of
Phila- delphia had something to say of the
joys of married life, and he told how
to preserve these joys in this poem:
Say,…
A Defense Of Father
Family and RelationshipsA Defense of Father
6411
Nobody knows the money it takes
To keep the home together;
Nobody knows of the debt it makes,
Nobody knows-but father
Nobody's told that the boys need shoes
And girls hats with a feather:
Nobody else old clothes…
Father William
Family and RelationshipsFather William
By Lewis Carroll
891
You are old Father William, the young man
wald
And your half has become very whites
And yet you incremantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William reptied…
The Skaters
Family and RelationshipsThe Skaters
Grant Cook
2332
The rising moon,
Dispels the gloom,
And throws her beams on frozen lake, afar:
A pathway, bright
With mellow light, Where skaters skim across the amber bar
With swinging stride
And graceful glide,
The skaters…