Life — January 24, 1907 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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SOME METRICAL SAMPLES 1 Lasnic 1—Octossliabie Two syllables, in which the stress Falls on the second, constitute The foot best fitted to express The music of the Saxon lute, *Tis found in verses short and long, In stanzas both di ul terse. Ibis the unit of our song— ‘The Great Jamb of English verse. The Pentameter One who woul tell a tale in epie strain Shoukd use the long pentameter to gain The stately movement he requires; £0, 100, ‘The dramatist who follows models true For all bis formal di will choose This measure, which his great forerunners use, ‘The thyming couplet, just exemplified, Was much affected in the days ef Pope: their best -ss form we call blank verse. Rul Milton and great Shakespeare Employed the rhy 3—The Sonnet ‘The sonnet is a weird and fearsome thing, With fourtcen lines, no more, not ever less To match this length you must your thought compress Kd Procrustes did —the king. You know, who pulled the dwarf out like a string And cut the giant short; by which process Or streteh 1 » more dare you digress From the strict model we are following. Noe let the the scheme .¢; though in the last six Hines one may me e'er vary ft ater freedo Following the gleam Of Tight thus shed upon the poet's way, ‘One can construct w' outwa will seem, To bea sonnet. Maugre, will it pay? M—Trocuate When the syllable accented 1s the first and not the second, ‘Then the troche is presented — ‘And a tripping foot ‘tis reckoned. Oft it comes in rhyming stanzas With a short epodic line; Sometimes, as in Hiawatha, Rhyme and stanza show no sign, II—Axare See the galloping rush of the angpest verse, With two syllables light leading up to the stress, It is easily made, and on that acc For it tempts one to write with no thought to express, HM. Kingery, in the Editor t worse, Wy SS LADYLIKE GEOMETRY I. A straight line is the shortest distance between two millinery openi II. A straightline determined by two bargain tables is co eed as prolonged both ways until th ML Ab scribed by a woman alighting from a street-car. IV. A mixed line is a line composing the reception committee of a club's -atial candidate. V. Aplain figure is one all points of which have been neglected, by the dressmaker. VI. Figures of the same shape don’t always have the same style. VIL. Figures of the same size never consider them equivalent ore closes n line is a series of successive straight lines de- VIII. Women equal to the same thing are not always eq cach other. Nellie Parker Jones, in the Chicago Record: Herald. ster: 1 KNOW, MY DEAR, THAT COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS, BUT 1 SIMPLY WANTED YOU TO SEE WHAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING. WOMEN WHO WILL GAMBLE ‘The most difficult thing to keepin check both in Singapore and Penang is gambling among Straits-born women of all classes, from the highest downward, Frequent complaints are received from husbands whose wives have lost heavily, and it is known that there are five lotteries opening more or less daily in Sing. pore which are almost exclusively supported by “nonias ation may possibly do something to stop this vice among the ts-born ladies, but it must be confessed that its effect in that ection on their husbands and brothers is but small. — Cina Post. * courage of the amateu! HAMLET AS A SCENE-SHIFTER A certain well-known woman was as a girl an intimate friend of Edwina Booth; only and dearly loved daughter of America’s great tragedian. This favored young person was thus admittod to the inhtful acquaintance of the actor. although at this time she was not of years of sufficient discretion to fully understand how far-reaching were ber privileges. She says that in the Booth home private theatricals were always more or less a craze, and she had. n played in such performances given in the drawing. room and before a friendly audience of family friends On thee occasions nothing coukl induce Mr. Booth to +, ta He declared that he “should be scared out of his w have the spectators at so close range and confined to tho whom he knew well in private life. His commendations of the ors were entirely sincere, sing as the remembrance of them now is. In any of his daughter's parler plays Mr. Booth had indeed his role, and it was always c scicntiously filled, But it was that of scene-shifter —Herper's Weekly. Qcenirs of every ccnceivable kind come to a newspaper office Some are sensible and some are not. Many are sincere in all their folly, and a few are unmistakable traps set for the unwary scribe, Most are of the proverbial kind, taking more than the wisdom of seven sages for their answering, But answers uf some kind have to be found for a majority of them. The other day some very ingenious of very sly person sent to an office a request to know whether hockey could be counted among aquatic sports. It was a puzzler, To answer a plain no” would have been to issue a certificate of mental poverty ‘on behalf of the whole staff. So the man most nearly concerned. in the matter took counsel his colleagues. The result this reply "Not unless the player falls in."—New Vork Evening Post CAN'T BEAT A WOMAN Mas. Mort: Tom never tells me a word about his busine Mes, Scott: Neither does my husband. But when [ to find out. T invite some company and he lets out everything. Beston Transcript Is vinw of the probability that French etiquette will «oa demand the announcement of divorces with the same so} is required of marriages, Les Dedats suggests the following formula for the purpose ‘Mr. X. has the honor you of his divorce. Henceforth he will reside in street s0-3 number so-and-so.” Another paper, however, thinks that the announcement should come from both parties concerned in the hatter, and suggests the following: “Mr. and Mrs. X. have the conor of notifying you of their happy separation.”” ‘There « remain problems to be solved, Will it be necessary to acknow! edge the receipt of such announcements? And, if so, in whet Id this be done? Of congratulation oF of conde Vew York Tribune informing ECONOMICS Prorrssor: Do you believe in taxing breweries? Srepext: Ido; to their utmost capacity.—Harverd Low poor. “Isy't it odd for the French to give the worst defeated in an election representation in their parliament?” They don’t.”” “Then please tell me what else is the party of the Ext Left "Baltimore American. Lire, is published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. from date of publication, 25 cents. Live is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. The International News Corhpany, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England, Acexrs. Postage Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single current copies, 10 cents. Back 0) foreign countries in the bers, after three months Prompt netiscation No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The itlustratigns in Lire. are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. ould be sent by subscribers of any change ef address. 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