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Show , t (L THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Centennial f Dear Reader: This is your comer. All questions submitted will be cheerfully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, but will be sent if a stamped envelope accompanies the request. Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany each letter or no reply can be made. All communications are held strictly confidential. In requesting poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or the name of the author is necessary in order to find them. Please send stamped, addressed envelope also with these requests, so they may be forwarded directly to you. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City, Utah. Snjiuj f Joint Howard. Paynes Immortal 5on$ Hai&jirj&rjiAxzproTZJ'.z By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HIS year is the centenary of the first singing of John Howard Paynes Sweet Home. Home, naThe English-speakin- g tions are observing the anniversary by singing the song in concerts. Much of the rest of the world Is doing the same thing. For a century the poets have assured us that the words are not great For a century the musicians have assured us that the music is not great Both the poets and the musicians may be right. But little the world cares. During that century these same words and music have become a folk-son-g of the world. No other song ever writ- went to the publishers. Payne had ten can be sung by so many people sold the opera outright, with several without the aid of printed words and plays, for 250 pounds. Probably he music. got 80 pounds for Home, Sweet I have heard Etelka Gerster sing Home. The song was later revised to the Stephen Ol Fosters Old Folks at Home, and seen a Northern audience form in which , we now it. Here is its thrill' In response to this Negro song original form: of the Old South. I have heard Christine Nilsson sing Annie Laurie, that Mid pleasures and palaces though we roam. love-son- g which belongs not so nuicfi Be it mar ever so humble, theres no place like to Scotland as to all the world. I home. have heard Emma Nevada sing Fran- A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there. cis Scott Keys The (Like the love of a mother, Banner as I am a ninth generation Surpassing all other,) American, my feelings may be imag- Which, seek through the world. Is neer met with elsewhere. ined. And I have heard Adelina Patti a spell in the shads sing Home, Sweet Home whereat I Theres Where our played. wept openly and was neither ashamed Even strongerInfancy than time, and more deep nor alone in my tears. than despair. The poets and musicians of the next An exile from home, splendor dazzles In century probably will tell posterity that neither the words nor music of Oh, vain. give me my lowly, thatched cottage Home, Sweet Honie are great But again. the song is great And It will live The birds and the lambkins that came at my call, and be sung as long as there are who named me with pride. homes, and men wander and homesickThose who playd by my side ness grips the wanderers. Give me them, with the innocence dearer than all. There used to be a story that The Joys of the palaces through which I Home, Sweet Home was written by roam Payne on a tattered envelope In a Only swell my hearts anguish. Theres no place like home. driving rain under 'a lamp post when he was a ragged and hungry tramp in At the Union college, where Payne a foreign land. All wrong. Listen to was a student for two years, there Is Payne himself: I first heard the air in Italy. One quite an elaborate memorial to him. beautiful morning as I was strolling In the library is a collection of Payne alone amid some delightful scenery, memorabilia, books and pictures, inmy attention was arrested by the sweet cluding the manuscript of a poem voice of a peasant girl who was carry- written In college days. It contains ing a basket laden with flowers and the germ of the great song, written sixvegetables. This plaintive air she teen years later In a foreign land. trilled with so much sweetness and Here is one of the boyhood poem's : simplicity that the melody at once verses caught my fancy. I accosted her, and, Where burns the lov'd hearth after a few moments conversation, I Cheering the social breast? brightest asked her for the name of the song, Where beats the fond heart lightest, Its humble hopes possess'd? which she could not give me, but havWhere is the smile of sadness. ing some slight knowledge of music Patience born. Of meek-eye- d myself, barely enough for the purpose, Worth more than those of gladness to which the Which Mirths bright cheeks adorn? air, I requested her repeat she did, while I Jotted down the notes 1 os ure is marked by fleetness, To those who ever roam; as best I could. It was this air that While grief itself has sweetness of words Sweet the Home, suggested At Home! dear Home! Home, both of which I sent to Bishop at the time I was preparing the opera. Payne was not an exile from Bishop happened to know the air well, home, except In the sense that he was a born wanderer. He never marand adapted the music to the words. An early love affair with a Payne, at the time to which he re- ried. fers, was In Paris and In comfortable Boston belle was broken off by pacircumstances, working on his opera, rental Interference. He was once in Clari, the Maid of Milan, for which love with the widow of the poet Shelley. his old friend, Sir Henry Bishop, the He was very far from being a shiftless bird of passage and a derelict. On composer, wrote the music. It is probable that Home, Sweet the contrary he was courted and feted Home was first sung May 3, 1823. during much of his life and was the It is believed that Miss M. Tree was companion and friend of the great. John Howard Payne was bom In the singer, The opera was produce! at the Covent Garden theater, London. New York, June 9, 1791, in a house It was a distinct success. More than formerly standing at No. 33 Pearl He was the son of William 100,000 copies of the song were sold street. In the first year. The profit, however, Payne of an old Massachusetts fam T" ' Star-Spangl- ' , who has any considerable interest in Alabama land will do well to hold tight to his estate for a few years longer at least. This is one of the virgin fields of Industrial America and ily, and Sarah Isaacs of East Hampton, L. I., daughter of a Jew from Hamburg. Paynes father was principal of a school founded at East Hampton by Gov. De Witt Clinton. Later the family moved to New York, and still 1 later to Boston. Howard was the sixth of nine children. His writing bent was unmistakable from the first. In Boston, when he was only twelve years old, he was children, editing a weekly paper for which he called The Fly.,- William Payne taught 'his son elocution and was horrified when the boy wanted to go on the stage. John was York sent off forthwith to counting house Here he surreptitiously edited a weekly paper, the Thespian Mirror. William Coleman, editor of the New York Evening Post, chanced upon the precocious boy and made arrangements for him to go to Union college. There he started ta weekly paper, the Pastime, which was popular among the students. The bankruptcy of his father took Payne from college to the stage. He made his debut February 24, 1809, at the old Park theater, New York, as' Young Norval in Douglas," with an instant and unqualified success. After phenomenally successful appearances in Boston and Baltimore he quarreled with his manager and in 1813, at the he sailed for Engage of twenty-twland, the first American actor to invade the British stage. In London he made warm friends among the literary celebrities of the day. His stage work in twenty-tw- o parts drew crowded houses and splendid applause. Then he broke away from acting to adapt and write plays. His best play, Brutus, was produced in 1818. It has been played by all the great actors since. In all he produced more than fifty plays. Finally an unlucky attempt to manage a theater landed him a debtor In Fleet prison. Ha pawned his shirt for food, and hurried through a translation and adaptation with a success that quickly gained his In 1832 Paynes health freedom. failed and he came back to America penniless. But It was a return to The public Home, Sweet Home." made much of him, and benefit pep formances made him whole financially. Then, characteristically, Payne abandoned the stage' and all Its works. Literary work was his main Interest In 1842 he was appointed consul at Tunis. There he died of fever in 1853, and was buried. The last Home, Sweet Home of John Howard Payne is In the old Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown, D. C., where his remains were Interred In 1883 with pomp and ceremony by President Arthur and dignitaries of the United States government. o, years ago this popular breakfast delicacy was without commercial value " and had no place upon the American bill of fare. It the recent highway conference at officials Florida and California are the bum one of attendance there made the state-n-t the capitalists of the coun.ry have sources of a large part of the supply and it is also cultivated to a great that the territory embraced with- - turned their attention Soudiward. extent In Jamaica and the , Isle of radius of 300 miles of Muscle Anniston (Ala.V Star. Pines. The grapefruit, or pomelo, Mis comprised the richest territory with other members of the citrus fam-l, Grapefruit Industry. . the entire world. That Is a very to the laiest figures availIt may bu was brought to Florida by the According satement, nprehensive verified through the development of able, about 5,000,000 boxes of grape- Spaniards about four centuries ago. dern mining methods plus creative fruit were consumed la this, country It grows in great yellow bunches upoii man in one year, although not so many trees that attain a height if 30 feet imlstry. At any rate any young Richest in the World SONGS REQUESTED to let it grow out. These songs and poems are on the tempting Dear Miss Brooks: requested and list: Mammy o Mine. Many thanks for the sbng you pub lished for me a few weeks ago. I am Sunshine of Paradise Alley. sending in a song which I see has been Now Hes Only a Tramp Found Dead requested and hope you will publish the on the Street. same. Would like to ask you how is Im Sorry I Made You Cry. best way to slip and reset the begonia Tls the Picture From Lifes Other slip, and what, if any, special care is Side. necessary. Also, how to win back the love of one who is gradually drifting Stay In Your Own Back Yard. When the Dew Is On the Rove, from you (husband). Have tried in .9 every way to do my part. It what way SONGS RECEIVED have I failed? Please make a suggest The following songs and poems have tion. Thanking you in advance as bS been received during the past week, fore, LONEITA, Utah. and I wish to thank each one for their You are welcome to the song, Lonel-ta- ,' kindness in contributing them: in and I turn thank you for the one Little Boy In Blue A Message from Home Sweet Home. you sent me. (1) The florist tells me to take the begonia slip and put it in While the Leaves Come Drifting water until little roots come on it, then Down. Under Dakotas Cross. plant it and take care of it just the same as anything else. (2) Your other The Curse of an Aching Heart. The Legend of the Organ Builder. question is not so easy to answer, dear, especially as I know nothing of the I am going to ask you It will be necessary for the following circumstances. me a letter telling me somett send names and addresses before I to write more about your seeming trouble, can answer their letters, as the rules thing and I can then give you a personal reheading this column indicate. wish. There is a way to reif you Dimply Cowboy, Robertson, Wyo. ples, Thame, Wyo. Bug and Dunk, store the harmony in your home I am your Washington, Utah. Bebe and Lil, Sho- sure but not knowing more thanadvice shone, Idaho. Tobbie and Dickey, Lo- letter Indicates, any attempted atblind from be would like the me, gan, Utah. The Texas Cowgirl, Desert Lake, Utah. The Naughty Four, tempting to lead the blind. Please will Texas Rough Rider, you let me hear from you? Meridian, Ida. To IRENE, Fillmore, Ut. Through Devoted Reader, McCammon, Idaho. the kindness of a contributor I am enTooele, Utah. abled to print your song: Dear Miss Brooks: A LITTLE BOY IN BLUE Your little corner is so interesting and inviting that I feel I must enter A mother sits in sadness and hope I am welcome to ask a few Thinking of her only son (1) I am 13 years old and As she looks up at two pictures on the questions. wall. have been going with a boy steady all winter and feel that I should think Theyre all thats left to cheer her more of other things than boys, so how And she says Thy will be done can I quit him without getting peeved As she mourns for him at him? (2) Is it proper to play kiss- Whos gone beyond recall. shows him as a little boy ing games at a party? Wishing you One In soldiers clothes at play all kinds of success, I remain, With his army lying scattered on the ' PEACHES, Idaho. , floor. Your questions were answered and sent to the address enclosed in your The other in a uniform t letter, but it has been returned to me The day he marched away. marked unclaimed. I am now placing When he said good bye the delay but guess Alas! forevermore. it here. Sorry you will have to accept the blame. Proper name and addtess must accom- Chorus: pany letters if you wish answers and Is it strange when the band starts playing prompt service. You are right you should be think- That her eyes All up with tears, ing of other things, vastly more im- As the soldiers pass her window portant than going with boys. I can- And the street rings out with cheers? not understand why you have been al- For its thep that her heart is saddest lowed to go steady with a boy all win- And it seems it cant be true. ter when you are only thirteen. Your As she looks up at the pictures of her little boy in blue. letter shows that you are sadly in need of more schooling. Just tell this boy took him from her has frankly that you think you are too The war that been over many years, young to be going with boys, and that you have decided not to do it any more, And the troops that pass are only on but to spend your time improving yourparade; self Instead. There is no reason why But as she watches them go by he should 'get peeved about it. No, my Shes thinking through her tears, dear, kissing games are not in good Of her own boy marching taste. There are many other, games While the music played. much more enjoyable and less harm- The pictures hanging on the wall ful. Let me know how you get on, dear. They seem to blend in one,' And she seems ,to hear a voice I miss ' you, too. Dear Miss Brooks: ' Will you please answer a question Thats hy shes for me. If a girl doesnt want te dance For when all is said and done. with a boy she has never met, how He was only just her little Boy in Blue. should she refuse him? I am sendMiss Brooks: ing a song somebody asked foM Thank- Dear The poem you sent was just what ing you very much in advance. I wanted. And it was very dear of you, BROWN EYES, Idaho. Thanks very much for the song. Miss Brooks. I thank you from the Brown Eyes. It seems very strange depth of my heart. I wish to ask two that a boy whom you have never met questions now. (1) I have a wart on should ask to dance with you. Surely my lip, anyway it is a white pimple. It he must realize he should be properly has been there almost three years. It Introduced. Simply say, you are sorry, doesnt bother me, but I do not like it but you cannot dance with a stranger. there. It is as large as a pin head. . Is there anything I can take it off with? (2) I am 23 years old, 5 feet 2 inches TWO SISTERS, Idaho Falls, Ida. Thanks for the songfc, girls. I will tall; how much should 1 weigh? I will close with love. keep your envelope for the songs you Fork, Ut request and hope to have them for SPANISH BABE, Spanish You are as welcome as can be to the you soon. You are most welcome to poem I sent you, and I am very glad I any and all I can find for you. could do it for you. I am so very busy, dear friend, that at present I am' Dear Miss Brooks: Permit me to ask a favor of you. Will making no personal appointments at would be better if you please give directions for the plant- all, so I think it whatever questions ing and cultivating of Jerusalem Arti- you would towrite me ask, two at a time, and I you wish chokes? Yours truly, be shall JIMMIE. very pleased to answer them to You are most welcome to the follow- the best of my ability, you may be sure. In regard to the wart, or whatever it ing Information regarding the Jerusalem Artichoke. The planting and cul- may be, on your lip, I think it would tivation of this tuber is much the be a good idea for you to consult your same as that of the Irish potato. Plant physician about it, and if he says It is a wart I suggest that you try rubbing it 18 Inches apart in the row with rows 3 feet apart. It is very proli fife it lightly with a caustic stick. This and hardy, and does net require the is often effective in removing an orcareful cultivation given the potato. dinary wart For your height, your appreIt is advisable to use waste land for weight should be 120 lbs. I de the growing of this plant, which some ciate your good wishes, dear, and shall from to be abhear as glad you a it very again. consider eventually pest, heavy-hearte- d, sorbs all available surrounding ground JUANITA and cannot be gotten rid of, except by Soft oer the fountain, plowing it up. falls the southern moon; Lingrlng Far oer the mountain. My Dear Friend: I have written to you many times Breaks the day too soon! and am pleased with your work. May In thy dark eyes splendor. I ask a question or two. (1) I have Where the warm light loves to dwell. very thick hair and it is getting real Weary looks, yet tender, have it Speak their fond farewell! long and pretty. I want to want me Nita! Juanita! bobbed, but my folks do not to have it cut. What shall I do? I am Ask thy soul if we should part! wishing you very much success with Nita! Juanita! me and with all others, I am, as ever, Lean thou on my heart. PINK ROSE, Clear Lake, Utah. You will see one of the songs you requested in the last issue of your paper and another in this issue. The others I do not have, but will try to get them for you and will then send them to you. I would not advise you to bob your hair, Pink Rose. I am sure you would regret it, especially when your hair is doing so well. Bobbed hair is not as it was, although nearly so popular many continue to wear it because of the difficulty encountered when at To MRS. V. M. L Salt Lake I now have your poem, "The Dying Sailor," and had hoped to print it, but hardly for it, as thick I can ever find room kindit is quite a long poem. Willdo you not have ly send for It as I find I your address. My Dear Friend: Would you kindly answer my quesfound your tions, Miss Brooks? We chose Taml, club names very good and we work, we liked As our club is where friend. kind Tami the best. Thanks,, (1) Do you Now for my questions. doing type work, , know of any place, to dj where a girl could get type work me to at heme? It la Impossiblea for have typewriter Mv bme and I ! When in thy dreaming, Moons like these shall shine again, And day-ligbeaming Prove thy dreams are vain, Wilt thou not, relenting. For thine absent loiver sigh, ht In thy heart consenting I To a prayr gone by? Nita! Juanita! Let me linger by thy side! Nita! Juanita! Be my own fair bride! and would like to do that kind of work. (2) PleaBe send me Thomas Melghans address. Wishing you lots of success and thanking you very kindly, yours, DOODLE BUG, Logan, Ut. I sincerely wish, dear girl, that I might be as successful In sending a satisfactory answer to this question as I seemed to be to your last one. I fear though, my dear, that it will be impossible for you to obtain this kind ef work. The mimeograph has absorbed whatever work of this nature there once WaB, as It reproduces copies much more quiekly and satisfactorily than does the typewriter. Address Thomas Meighan at Lasky Studios, Vine 6L Hollywood, Calif. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been an ardent reader of yonr corner for a long time and would like some help, if I am welcome. Will you help me qolve this question? I have been doubtful of it for a long time. Which kind of girls do the boys like the best? Girls who are independent, who bawl them out occasionally, tells them where to head in," and give them as Or the as good they take? girls who are. always pleasant, tranquil, and quiet? The boys seem to think the latter are lazy. They say a,nd do anything and everything they please around her, never thinking how they might hurt her feelings, and ignore her when they like, and dance with the other girls first, at a dance, etc, while they respect the hardboiled" girls and Please tell me seek their company. why this is. Wishing you all sorts of luck, I am, EASY, Wyo. Of course you are welcome, my dear. It seems to me it ought not to be very hard to guess which sort of a girl a boy should like, but there is no accounting for tastes, and taste of some of the present-da- y boys sometimes seems to be hard to account for. Even if the boys you know seem to like to be bawled out and told trhere to head in at, as you say, I don' believe if 1 were in your place I shoult adopt these tactics in order to be popular with this sort; for I should consider the sort of boy that would like that kind of thing, not worth worrying over. They aren't all like that, thank goodness, and if you keep yourself the nice modest, demure sort of girl that they think, Easy," some day a boy is going to come along who will appreciate such a girl. The boys you speak of may seem to Ignore you now, but one of these days they are going to tire of the hard boiled girl, and then you will have your Innings. I feel quite sure of this, dear, anc) no girl can afford to lower her high Ideals for the sake of such unstable and unsatisfactory popularity. Do you not agree? And further, Easy, if a girl is pleasant, tranquil and quiet, she muut of necessity be and have poise. This a combination of which any girl should be proud and which should insure popularity for her among both boys and girls. If all the boys of your acquaintance are of this type do not fret, but devote your attention' to and you will be rewarded by attracting to you persons of real worth who have respect and admiration for you and your efforts. self-relia- nt ' ' 1 Dear Miss Brooks: May I enter your corner again? (I Who was the man who played the part of Kenneth and Norma Talmadgea sweetheart In the Daughter of Two Worlds? (2) What kind of face powder is the best? I remain your friend wishing you bushels of success MAY FLOWER, Grantsville, Ut. Jack Crossby took the part of Kenneth Harrison, in A Daughter of Two Worlds. I am having some literature-senyou regarding what is considered one of the very best lines of toilet t preparations manufactured and I c assure' you they are thorowghly dependable. 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We hatch only from our own egg. T. B. C. Sielcken, Calistoga, Calif. KODAK FINIS HNG Send Us Your Films , VELVETONE" Finishing Professional and Amateur Supplies SALT LAKE PHOTO SUPPLY CO. 271 So. Main St. Catalog Free Dear Miss Brooks; , . This makes twice that I have writ-- 1 ten to you. I want to ask a question or two more. Will you answer them, piease? I am 17 years old, weigh 109 pounds. Is that as much as I should weigh? Thanking you Iff advance, 1 remain, SLIM. Yes indeed, I will gladly answer your questions, and thank you very, very much for the song. If you are of height, which Is 62 Inches,, Slim, you are about four pounds under weight, as you should 'vetgb. Ill pounds. ' |