. Argosy and Railroad Man’s Magazine, Apr 5 1919 . him and smiling intothe dark, and Sonia leaned back with a was content. End.) IN RETROSPECT ■■pHE sunlight filters through the smoke and dustAnd warms my sixteenth-story window-paneWhere, seated at my desk, I plan a trustOr how to break one. which to mes the same;It warms me and I dream of home againThe way it looked when early spring first showedIn golden buttercups along the road. 0 spring! you are a rapture to the boy,And oh, the gipsy wanderings you provoke! 1 now recall with what a truant joyI pulled the angleworm until he brokeA
. Argosy and Railroad Man’s Magazine, Apr 5 1919 . him and smiling intothe dark, and Sonia leaned back with a was content. End.) IN RETROSPECT ■■pHE sunlight filters through the smoke and dustAnd warms my sixteenth-story window-paneWhere, seated at my desk, I plan a trustOr how to break one. which to mes the same;It warms me and I dream of home againThe way it looked when early spring first showedIn golden buttercups along the road. 0 spring! you are a rapture to the boy,And oh, the gipsy wanderings you provoke! 1 now recall with what a truant joyI pulled the angleworm until he brokeAnd waited at the pond with stone to soak The frog when he should swell his throat to singThe universal madness of the spring. Oft, while along the budding lane Ive trodBarefoot and bathed in Aprils golden sun,I*ve watched my father break the stubborn sodIn fragrant, rippling furrows, one by one—But soon, too soon, those happy days were done,For I grew up and had to guide that share,And so Im glad, this spring, that Im not there! Ralph Bacon. Edwin (Justus Me^er OMEN and beggars—both makeme cynical, Wentworth and beggars! saidthe other scornfully. Women and beg-gars! You are mad, Wentworth, to matchthe two; women are not beggarly, they areimperial; when they come to us at all, itis in wistful pomp, or in august splendor,but always in triumph and beauty; neverin tattered trousers and broken shoes. Nevertheless, they are much the same,Wentworth replied. He had the faculty ofbecoming inscrutable, when he desired to. Both of them, he went on, beggars andwomen rely on sympathy to win their make the most primitive appeal—toan emotion, to a passion. The desire of oneis the corner saloon: of the other, the lead-ing salon. The appeal of the woman is theappeal of the beggar; the appeal of thebeggar is the appeal of the woman—thefeminine appeal, the soft appeal, the ap-peal to our weakness, not to our strength. There are moments when weakness isno less th
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