Show STUDENT LIFE 31 started and English 5 is reading Paradise Lost Don’t neglect the Lyceum Course It is largely an experiment this vear and must he made to succeed in the catalogue Pay a little more attention to those you do carry Don’t shout “fire” every time you smell something burning The D S “young ladies" are just getting The Passing of Mc Aill?mii1 Vc have read the poet’s pleasing rhyme the gay milkmaid of the olden time And the brimming pail that she poised on her head “Like a queenly crown” so the poet said : e with pans and crocks Of the old n rocks And cold spring water and And the mellow tune of the water’s song As it ran its crvstal course along And we’ve also read of the “butter of gold” That this maiden churned in these days of old And the skimmer she used “like a dainty shell” That lifted the cream from the milk so well And the poet found in the churn she'd use A fitting theme to inspire his muse And told how the dainty globules broke Like golden beads beneath her stroke Hut alas! how sadly the flight of time Has ruin wrought to the poet’s rhyme And left us naught to tell today Of the dairy maid and her gentle way For the dairy maid is a dairy man With bluejean pants and a big milk can e has given way And the old To the modern creamery of today And the brimming pans no longer cool In the babbling stream or the limpid pool Put the pan of today is a steel machine That parts the cream from the pure casein And the best trained calf so the experts say e Can’t tell fresh milk from this whey And a man can’t tell that the butter he buys Is made from cream or from oil and dyes For all the things of the poet’s dream Have lost their place in this age of steam And the dairy maiden has had her day And the creamery man has come to stay And the next advance we look for now Is for some machine to supplant the cow — F I F in Successful Farming ( f milk-hous- moss-grow- milk-hous- new-mad- ' |