Life — September 19, 1901 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

To a Modern Maid. ARO URAND din ancestral beings, nay, A thousand thousand more, and who shall say How many more than these, have trod this sphere To make you what you are to-day, my dear. And yet I count it not too much, when I Your calmly serious face to fathom try, Nor think the sacrifice too great to tell— They've done their work so wisely and so well! Tom Masson.