. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1916. American Hee Journal BEE-KfiEPiNG ^ For Women Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson, Mareneo. III. DEATH [The following lines, by Grace Allen, the beekeepers' poetess, are so beautiful that the sisters will be glad to read them, even though some of them may already have read them in Gleanings in Bee Culture, from which they were taken J So many things I do not understand! My neighbor's house today is strangely still. Insufferably sweet with heaped-up flowers. Friends enter softly, greeting hand to hand; A silence never-ending seems to fill W
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1916. American Hee Journal BEE-KfiEPiNG ^ For Women Conducted bv Miss Emma M. Wilson, Mareneo. III. DEATH [The following lines, by Grace Allen, the beekeepers' poetess, are so beautiful that the sisters will be glad to read them, even though some of them may already have read them in Gleanings in Bee Culture, from which they were taken J So many things I do not understand! My neighbor's house today is strangely still. Insufferably sweet with heaped-up flowers. Friends enter softly, greeting hand to hand; A silence never-ending seems to fill With shadowed hush the long, reluctant hours. (Though once across the aching air so tense. Insistent in his love and ignorance. A baby broke the breaking hearts again With Quivered " When she tummin'back ? Oh. when ?") Beneath a cloud-veiled sky and shaken trees My slow steps brought me home, and all around The withered leaves lay dead on every hand. I stood at last among my quiet bees. Stood there and stood, nor made the slight- est sound- So many things I do not understand! A Honey-Box In a Chicago daily—like enough in several of them—in a full-page adver- tisement of Marshall Field & Co., offer- ing appropriate articles for Christmas presents, appears the following : "Honey-boxes, in great variety of patterns. A practical novelty, $ to $ ; The likelihood is that beekeeping women who read that advertisement will not be very favorably impressed. Something like this may be said: "That's no honey-box; it's a honey- dish. The idea of paying six dollars for a dish with a cover to hide the beauty of a snow-white section of honey! Why, such a section is one of the finest adornments of a table. I'd rather have a section of honey on a plate, with all its beauty fully displayed, than to have it hidden by the most expensive ; All the same that advertisement is a thing to rejoice over. Not every table of the well-to-do ha
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