Show POETRY KEY Y TO J DIVORCE rii rr l t Most Beautiful Woman Was Wasl l r Strange Versifier v If N. N E. E A. A Staff l' l Y t I NEW EW EW YORK April 24 Ro the roots foots of or mv my soul sou 2 among depressions n negative So th blooms of my will I r Swinging f I dead dead- in a bondage bf sighs That's hats the he way Americas most woman Beautiful ful woman Mrs Leonard M M. i Thomas mt used to talk in her poetry j J JIt ht has just b been en learned that Mrs Irs Thomas and her husband were diSi dl- dl SI In In Paris months ago e 3 Society ty leaders of Newport Philadelphia Phila- Phila del delphia ph I a and New ew York have thereby herebY a new Interest In life Ufe T They ey have 1 pounced upon Mrs Thomas' Thomas weird r free flee verse much of It m melancholy IT II seeking something that they may connect connect con con- with th the wreck of the con j I married life Ufe t Mrs Thomas Is back In New York with her two children jn c BEAUTY THRILLED ARTisT Paul French artist called J Mrs who Miss 1 Thomas wa was once Blanche May Oelrichs the most beau beau- f woman in America She was a aleader aleader at leader of Newport and Philadelphia t so society B But t all all- th the time she led cotillions p and talked with folks whose conversation conversation conver- conver conver r never strays far from the dance c and Yand d the shortage of liquor she was f hiding a a terrific secret ecret Mrs Thomas was an authoress STRANGE VERSES Free vers rs who proudly Imagined m themselves free gave the Croix de License with palm to Mrs Thomas for tor or a her freedom Her creations are among rJ HIJ rh the most and yet produced mf mf ml X She calls call an apple a green 9 t snowball and as for tor th the wind s she e y says Oh Oli that the wind might sink h into to f the distance of my depth disturbing its terrible tranquillity I 1115 lI Her book Poems was published Ei by Brentano's under the name of I 1 i x Michael Strange and It was wai a long 1 j. j time before her Newport neighbors Si ri I discovered It i 4 SOME WERE SHOCKED vr It shocked them some say to find that their beautiful leader had forgotten forit for it gotten herself so tar far ar as to write free f rl verse Averse Now they have exhumed the book l ft- ft and to find connection ft r t p are trying a b between the and the wreck of e tween verses her married ur life laL rt i Once nce she wrote wrote- 7 A i 1 f You cannot cannot Uk like me mer r th apu Knowing not that I smell A h S v o Of the moon t the e sea TV- TV Heres Here's a fragment that might puzzle ev even n an expert eighth grader of the phrasing class i I I Yet behind them leaving a soul fractured frac- frac I j- j t certainly- certainly jl I From collision with double tombs n G GOODNESS 1 Somebody called this his a charming I r orchard f orchard Idyll 1 Apples 7 7 tta La Lacquered qu red in Chinese gr green n shining f Ile wind-blown wind cheek cheek- heek- heek s. s si a Apples I i j Savoring in their Juice their fragrance 40 Of entire orchards T They y tasting of stiff ro rose colored e d MF cL h f petals f f c- 9 Varnished in moon dew 1 OI Iridescent of the sun I to t. t The They tasting of autumnal earth Earth exhaling through vaporous frost frosti the aroma i s r 1 I Of or Harvest and Death T f I I Apples I v I u Green i snowballs appeasing Both Both hunger and thirst it Apples d Savoring In their Juice their fragrance 4 Of entire orchards orchards' T TIra TI I H Ira S MICHAELS S SOLI SOLILOQUY O UY While here we have the opinion of E Michael Strange Mrs T Thomas Thomas' omas' omas p penname pen pent n t name ame you ou recall of of himself t I fm 13 m 1 young young LAnd And And you all hate me for it i Entering your confines confine 1 I convulse them all aU too l lusty sty 2 For your drowsy conversations ns t h I i 1 snapping up the shades I Across your blear blind eyes f a i 1 singeing your brains f With the starlit air Arid And you garret dwellers I a Dreading me like fire f- f Perceiving In my ray force a Ii Your extinguishing cap Yet how ow sad how low sad Yo You cannot like me bt bM lf Knowing not that I smell 31 Of the moon th the sea sea Not that my hair L 1 JP jw Is ls woven of tom tomorrows tomorrow's flowers i And And my feet teet feet feet- 11 Inthe In the stirrup of sunrise Itself ei i Nb b. b you cannot see or 1 t My l dancing futurity For J or I 1 am young young t c rf rAnd And you all hate me for tor it t. t LOO LOOKS S a j I I Ic c fJ t Styles Styles Styles-Don't Don't Dont you yoju think the short I skirts skirts the girls ar are are wearing make em emit it K took Jook shorter I IJ l J Myles Maybe lyles Maybe but they make themen themen the men look lon longer Yonkers Yonkers Yonkers Statesman |