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Show THE BULLETIN IDast Star k Add to Your List of "Red Letter Days" in July S tending M oney Isn't A 11 Birthdays of Two Who Deserve Remembrance V k Alec For Their Gifts to America's "Folk Literature" T ULY has its full quota of I birthdays of American notables so that we might honor half a dozen distinguished personages on every one of its 31 days without ex hausting the possibilities. In cluded in such a list would be Presidents John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge; Vice Presidents George M. Clinton, George M. Dallas and Elbridge Gerry; Henry Knox, first secretary of war, and Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy in Lincoln's cabinet; Gen. George H. ," Thomas, the "Rock of Gen. and Nathan Bedford Forrest, the "Wizard of the Confederacy"; such naval heroes as John Paul Jones and David Farra-gu- t and Richmond Pearson Hobson; John Ericsson, Elias Howe and Samuel Colt, in ventors; and such men of millions as John Jacob Astor, John Wanamaker, John D. Rockefeller and George Eastman. My theme, however, is not of the deeds nor achievements of these statesmen, Chick-amauga- soldiers and merchant princes. I sing of a humbler kind of folk those who compose the songs and poems which become the favorite "pieces" of the common people. And in particular, I tell of a woman and a man whose names are but little known to their (compared to those cited above) but who once set pen to paper and wrote lines which will be repeated long after their authors are CURFEW MUST NOT RING TONIGHT England's sua was setting 'er the hllltopi far away, SLOWLY all (be land with be i sty at the close of on tad day; And tka last rayi kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair, He wirh footsteps ckiw and weary, ihe with innny, Boating hair; He with howed head, tad and thoughtful, aha with lips all cold and white, Struggling to keep bark the aanrmur, "Curfew must not ring tonight!" "Beaton," Bessie's white llpa faltered, pointing to the prism aid. With lis turrets tall and gloomy, with ils walla dark, and cold "I've a lover in that prison, doomed this very night to damp die At the ringing of the curfew, and no earthly help is nigh. Cromwell will not corns till sunset"; and her face grew strangely white As she hrealhed the husky whisper, "Curfew must not ring tonight!" "Bessie," calmly spoke Ihe seiuw and his accents pierced her heart IJka the piercing of an arrow, like a deadly poisoned dart long years I've rung the curfew from that gloomy shadowed tower; Every evening. Just at sunset. It has told the twilight hour; I have done my duty ever, tried to do U just and right, Now I'm I still must do it: "Curfew, girl, must ring tonight!" Wild her eyes and pale her features, stem and white her And within her secret bosom Bessie made a solemn vow.thoughtful brow, She had listened while the Judges read, without a tear or "At Ihe ringing of the curfew, Basil Underwood must die."sigh, And her breath came last and faster, and her eyes grew large and bright. As in undertone she murmured, "Curfew must not ring tonight" With quick step she bounded forward sprang within the old church door, Left Ihe old man threading slowly paths he'd trod so oft before; Not one moment paused the maiden, but with eye and cheek aglow Mounted up the gloomy tower, where the bell swung to and fro; As she climbed the dusty ladder, on which fell no ray of light. Up and up, her whit Upe saying, "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" She has reached the topmost ladder, o'er her hangs the great dark ben. Awful is the gloom beneath her Ilka the pathway down to heU; Lo, the ponderous tongue la swinging, 'Us Ihe hour of curfew now, And the sight has chilled her bosom, stopped her breath, and her brew. Skill she let It ring No, never! Flash her eyes with sudden paled light. And she springs and grasps tt Irmly: "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" Out she swung, tar out; Ihe cKy seemed a speck of light below; be 'twist heaven and earth suspended as the bell swung to and fro; And the sextos at the old and deaf, beard not the belL But ha thought It still was ringing fair young Basil's funeral kneO. SUU Ihe maiden clung more Irmly, and, with trembling lips aad white, aid, to hush her heart's wild beating, "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" It was o'er; the bell ceased swaying, and the maiden stepped once more Firmly on the dark old ladder, where for hundred years before Human foot bad not been planted; but the brave deed she bad done Should be told long ages after: often aa the setting sua Mould Illume the sky with beauty, aged aires, with heads of white Long should tell the Uttlo children. "Curfew did not ring that night." old. bell-rop- O'er the distant hills came Cromwell; Bessie sees him, and her brow Full of hope and full of gladness, has no anxious traces mow. At his feet she tells her story, shews her hands all bruised and torn; And her face so sweet and pleading, yet with sorrow pale and worn. Touched bis heart with sudden pity lit his eye with misty lirht: "Co, your lover lives!" said Cromwell: "Curfew shall not ring tonight!" Mrs. Boat Hartwick Thorpe others as perfect in a literary sense and as full of that indescrib able rhythmic swing which characterizes 'Curfew and the publisher has brought them together in a form which should make both author and public grateful" Nor was the reviewer exagger ating when he said that "no poem written by an American author has been so widely copied, nor has achieved so universal a pop ularity." For Curfew" has been translated into nearly every language of the world and, in the words of another critic, is "universally recognized as a veritable classic." In 1883 Hillsdale college conferred upon its author an honorary M. A. degree be cause, as the president of the college wrote at the time, "You have written a poem that will never permit the name of its author to die while the English language is spoken." After the success of "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" Mrs. Thorpe became a regular contributor of short stories and poems to leading magazines and weeklies and from 1881 to 1904 she published no less than a dozen books of poems and stories for young people. For the last 40 years she has lived in San Diego, Calif., and she is living there today at the age of eighty-eighHRK EOSE 11. THORPE still keenly interested in the If you have ever recited "Cur- world and modern conditions, alfew Must Not Ring Tonight" at though she has not written any school, you should have given it a poems for 10 years. thought on July 18. For on July Curiously enough, she does not 18, 1850, there was born to Wiconsider "Curfew Must Not Ring lliam Morris and Mary Louisa Tonight" as her best work. In(Wight) Hartwick near Misha-wak- stead she favors her poem "ReInd., a daughter whom they member the Alamo" or possibly named Rose Alnora. While "The Station Agent's Story." But Rose Alnora was still a in the hearts of thousands of beribboned little girl, the family Americans who went to the "little moved to a farm near Litchfield, red schoolhouse" and who used Mich. There one day she was at to "speak pieces" on Friday home, supposedly studying her afternoons, "Curfew Must Not lessons. But her mother noticed Ring Tonight" holds a place that that she was busily engaged in is secure. e writing something on her slate. Two days before you put a red "What are you doing?" the circle around July 18 on your mother demanded. Startled by the question and calendar in honor of the author with a guilty feeling that she of "Curfew Must Not Ring Toshould be busy "doing her sums" night," you might have marked instead of writing romantic July 16 in the same way. For on verses, Rose Alnora started to July 16, 1848, was born at Johns-burgWarren county. New York, erase them. But her mother stopped her, read what she had Eben Eugene Rexford, son of written and didn't scold her! Jabez and Rebecca (Wilcox) RexInstead she sent the poem to the ford, destined for future fame as Detroit Commercial Advertiser the man who wrote "Silver and after it appeared in that pa- Threads Among the Gold." When Eben was seven years per it was reprinted in dozens of old his parents moved to Ellingothers. Years later it was included in ton, Wis. At the age of fourteen a book of her poems called "King- young Rexford's writing ability ing Ballads" and a Boston Tran- began to assert itself when one script reviewer wrote: "The of his poems appeared in the New name of Rose Hartwick Thorpe York Weekly. Three years later (she was married to Edmund he received his first payment for Carson Thorpe, a writer of Ger- literary work from Publisher man dialect recitations, in 1871) Frank Leslie of New York. Then is familiar to every reader he entered Lawrence college at through that wonderfully popular Appleton. Wis., and paid his way 'ballad, 'Curfew Must Not Ring by writing for the magazines. It was while he was a student Tonight.' It requires peculiar at Lawrence that he wrote the genius to write a genuine fellow-America- ns was -- i 1878 and it immediately Became wen Known. The invention of the phonograph helped make "Silver Threads Among the Gold" one of our best known "popular ballads" and it reached the heieht of its fame around 1915 when Richard J. Jose, a leading tenor, insisted on featur ing it in many of his programs. After Rexford's school days were over ne settled at Shiocton, Wis., to make literature his profession. He became a contributor of prose and verse to all the leading periodicals of the time and since he was also an authority on flowers he was for 10 years floricultural editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. Among his published books were "Home Floriculture," "A Work About Bulbs," "Flowers: How to Grow Them," "Grandmother's Garden," an illustrated poem; "Brother and Lover," a poem of the Civil war: and a collection of miscellaneous poems. Besides the song which made him most widely known, Rexford also wrote these songs which were once very popular: "Only a Pansy Blossom." "Sine a Sane to Me" and a Latin version of "Jesus Lover of My Soul." He t, Thorpe possesses to the fullest degree. No poem written by an American author has been so widely copied, nor has achieved so universal a popularity as the one referred to. She has wni'er poem which was to make him famous. He sold "Silver Threads Among the Gold" to Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner for $3 After keeping a clipping of the verses in his desk for two years, he showed it to a musician named II. P Dunks, who was suddenly nspirpil n mm it tn music. That TREE Woodman, spare that tree! Toucb not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy ax shall harm it not! lent cast For Mr. Sisk had Ideas about pictures. He thinks that It Is more That old familiar tree, important to have a good story and Whose glory and renown a group of actors who really can Are spread o'er land and sea. act than It is to spend lots of money And wouldst thou hew it down? on a picture, achieving spectacular effects. If yon remember "The InWoodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earthbound ties; former" and "A Man to Remem O, spare that aged oak, ber," for which he was responsible. Now towering to the skies! you'll see what he means. He didn't have stars for "Five When but an idle boy Who Came Back" the budget I sought its graceful shade; wouldn't allow it So Instead he In all their gushing Joy engaged Joseph CaUela, Lucille Here, too, my sisters played. Ball, Wendy Barrle, C Aubrey My mother kissed me here: Smith and Chester Morris. The My father pressed my hand plot, dealing with the forced landrorgive my foolish tear, ing of an air liner in a jungle and Bnt let that old oak stand! the effect on the passengers, wasn't My heart strings round thee cling, new but it has been well handled. wiose as tny Dark, old friend! and the dialogue is exceptionally Here shall the wild birds sing, good. And still thy branches bend, Old tree! the storm still brave! You may recall that "Northwest And, woodman, leave the spot; Passage" ran into difficulties last vvnue I've a hand to save, falL just as shooting was about Thy ax shall harm it not! to begin. Payette Lake, Idaho, was J. B." Thanks, Mrs. J. B., for that suggestion, and here are two covers that you might like to try. To make the contrasting edge for the round one, stitch two-instrips together in points as at A, trim as at B clipping between the points ch then turn right side out. Pull out smoothly and press, then gather aa at C Stitch to one section of the cover as at D, then stitch the two sections together leaving an opening for the cushion. To make a pattern for a modernistic patchwork cover, cut a rectangle of paper, then divide it into sections as shown. Use these sections as patterns to cut the fabric adding a seam allowance as at F. NOTICE: Two books for the price of one. Readers who have not secured their copies of my two books, SEWING, for the Home Decorator; and Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries; should send in their orders at once, before the supply is entirely disposed of. You may also have your choice of the Patchwork Quilt Leaflet or the Rag Rug Leaflet FREE with orders for two books; enclose 25 cents with name and address; directing your order to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. These two books contain 96 How to Sew articles that have never appeared in the paper. The man who wrote that nnm was George P. Morris, who was Dorn in Philadelphia October 10, 1802. Early in his youth, he moved to New York and at the acre of fif teen began contributing to the col umns ox trie Mew York papers. One of his acquaintances in There Are Two Ways New York was a man, 17 years his elder, who was already noted to Get at Constipation as a poet and editor but who destined for even greater fame Yet, and only two ways-bein later years Samuel Wood- and after it happen! Instead of worth, who wrote the sons? "The enduring those dull, tired, headOld Oaken Bucket." In 1823 Morachy days and then having to ris and Woodworth established a take an emergency medicine vby new magazine, the New York not KEEP regular with Kellogi's Mirror and Ladies Literarv Ga You can, if your zette. Later Morris associated is the kind millions have with him in this venture another -- due to the lack of "bulk" in n noet. Nathaniel P. modem diets. For goes Hiram Willis, Fuller, a journalist. ROBERT YOUNG light to the cause of this trouble ana Theodore S. Fay, a novelist, by supplying the "bulk" you need. rno continued the magazine until the chosen location, and early snows Eat this toasted nutritious 1842. in the mountains made it impossible iui milk or cream, every to work. Meanwhile, he was establishing for the company or baked into muffins-dri- nk j reputation as an author, an welt The picture finally got started a plenty of water, and see if your as an editor, for he was a grace- week or so ago, but the postponelife imt a whole lot brighter! ful writer of both prose and poet ment made changes in the cast necMade bj KelIoggJs In Battle Creek. ry, many ox the latter being set to essary. So, instead of seeing Robbow 07 every grocer. music. One critic dubbed him ert Taylor in the lead, vou'll ate 'The Song Writer of America" Robert Young, and Walter Brennan ind his colleaeue. Willis, once rle. will replace Wallace Beery. Our Intellect clared that at any time he could . God has placed no limits to the zet $50 for one of Morris' snn Paramount, making a film based exercise of the intellect He has anread, when no other song writ on the life of Victor Herbert, la er could sell one to the same buy-- set on xettlnr all details rirht in this given us, on this side of the grave. Bacon. for a shilling. With Willi, he picture version of the famons com also edited a volume of "Ameri- - poser's career that Herbert's :an Melodies." Amonc the cmst daughter has been signed nn an hich he wrote that became very technical advisor. Allan Jones and jopuiar in Nineteenth century Mary Martin, who couldn't get anyAmerica were "Near the jA where In Hollywood an til she went Where Droooed the Willow " "w off to New York and made a hit on Were Boys Together." the stage, are the stars. Hoi", "Long Time Ago," "Where Here's good advtca (or a woman during fcer Hudson's Wave," "My Mother's It looks very much as if autumn changs (usually from SB to 62), who liars Bible." 'Re would he'll bee her appeal to men, who worries find a new radio star with n about hot Sashes, loss of pep, dissy spslla, member how teacher let you Alec He's upset nerres and moody spells. Templeton, the blind pi vhistle the chorus when you sang Uet man (rash sir, 8 hrs. sleep and if yea wno nas made frequent guest anist need a good general system tonic take Lydia nat song in school?) on Puikham a Vegetable Compound, made E. the now air. and appearances But his greatest fame rests has sepanoUv far wow a. It helps Katun build a regular spot on Tuesday eve up physical resisUnea, thus helps give more pon the poem "Woodman. Scare vivacity to enjoy lils and assist calming piays classical music suThat Tree." which was later cat nings, tie Jittery nerves and disturbing symptom that perbly, and does parodies and muoften arrompany change ol Ufa. WEUi lo music and also became a pop sical sketches which are among the WOttTii TKYIMGI ular song. The incident which most amusing things in modern .nspired this poem was the his recent nerfnrm. WNU W 30-- 39 Morris and a friend broadcasting ance of "Three Little Fishes" as a rere walking through the woods Handel oratorio, with Templeton n the neighborhood of Rlnnmins. in a very good voice, had singing, Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL dale, N. Y., when his friend point- broadcasting circles predicting a big ed out an old elm tree, under future for him. which he had played when a boy. Conrad NagcL of stage and screen While the two men were ait. is master of ceremonies on fame, ;ing under the tree, enjoying its tne program, which is one more a woodchouDer came un shade, to be grateful for hia diction with his ax and was ready to thing and voice are good, and he has none start cutting the tree down, when oi ue plushy solemnity which so Morris' friend offered to oav him many announcers seem to think is $10 if he would spare it. The woodman accepted the money necessary. and signed a bond that the tree AMI E.vriee... should not be harmed during the andODDS band hit are don't muring lifetime of Morris' friend. miss them if they give aagain; concert in The poem which Morris wrote your neighborhmni . . . Gabriel Meatoased upon this incident, became ier always cornet en "Emergency immediately popular when it was tcript in hit pocket, in case one of "IT- . published and it was even more htm scheduled himii J rr C, fails so People Aim, if hear it him when was set to music. you popular launch into a of history Morris' long life of literarv at. the -Iirnnram vim '71 lru m. mwttv livity came to an end on July 6, body failed to J turn up,.ww . . . Be sure fo 1864. in New York citv. Moat nf marcn 01 timet lhe Worm which the things -- f he wrote are far. Match On"allknilllk if run. Hotel twenty minutet it'i one of the most gotten now all save one, "Wood TEMPLE the on intrirsting thing, tern screen man, spare mat Tree." It is still SQUARE remembered and auolcd bv thm,. Wis year . . . Ginger Roger prove, in Opposite Uorssea Templa Unrhelnr Mother'' .1 iht sands of Americans who know XHCTJLT BECOMMENDED trreen cameduummm. most of its lines even though they the Rates $150 to S100 ilerrine fnr mil lint ihm mJ- a mark of disrincHoa to stop may never have heard of the km considered her just a In done good t this beautiful kettelrv George P. Morris, the man who ing partner fnr Fred Attain. mmnuss sj. kobsiTek, Mjrr. wrote it. UlclcaMd by Western Newspaper Union.) r ow All-Bra- n? well-know- All-Br- an ce-re- al day-w- u How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men !" g: was also a composer of many church hymns. During his lifetime he is said to have written more than 700 poems, many of them for children. Harry Gold ing, English author, in compil ing a collection of what he called the best children's verses in the Er.clish language, selected three of Rexford's. The only other American poets thus honored were Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley. Rexford died of typhoid fevei in a hospital in Green Bav. Wis. October 16, 1916. Several years ago a large granite memorial was dedicated on the lawn of the Congregational church in Shioc ton which he helped build. A bronze tablet on the memorial gives the outstanding events in his career and concludes with the words "To Everyone God Gives a Share of Work, to Do Som Time, Somewhere" a quotation from one of his poems dresses are worn out, there are still parts of the skirts that are good enough to give long wear when made into these covers. quently. The picture in question is "Five Came Back," an RKO product, produced by Robert Sisk. It's probably Mr. Sisk's fault that the picture is so good, though due credit must be given to John Farrow, who directed it, and to the good script and excel WOODMAN, SPARE THAT -- EBEN E. REXFORD By RUTH WYETII SPEARS I like lo make interesting cushions in summer bright cotton covered ones and silk covers in the winter. The cost is nothing as I find that after the waists of r)EAR MRS SPEARS: afternoon in the little red school- - alone and usually leave them alone house. Or have you forgotten it? exclaim that, if all movies were it is: as good ai this one, they'd go fre "WhiD-Door-Will- , hing again: a "B," or low budget, picture has turned out to be a lot better than many an "A" or picture on which the studio shoots the works. Every so often somebody does an intelligent bit of work with a "B," and it On a July day 75 years ago audiences like a mag draws there died in New York city the and net, people who can take of author another poem which you may have recited on a Friday the movies or leave them "nA pig-taile- d, ballad-somet- Virginia Vnle tlELL, it's happened ll.v -r a, that flows spontaneously from the heart and goes directly to the heart. This gift Mrs. a Top Notcher m By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IReleased by Western Newspaper Uiiiuii.i Delay Brings AViu Lead Gay and Interesting Designs for Cushions a- L- three-minu-te r' f. ton-notc- |