What My Five Senses Teach Me To Love in the Country
I love the taste of thorn apples and sweet acorns and sumac and chokecherries and all the wild things we used to find on the road to school;
And I love the feel of pussy willows and the insides of chestnut burrs.
I love to walk on a country road where only a few double teams have left a strip of turf in the middle of the track.
In the first cool nights I love the sound of the first hard rainfall on the roof of the gable room.
And I love the creaking of the sleigh runner and the snapping of nail heads in the clapboards on a bitter cold January night.
I love the odor of those red apples that grew on the trees that died before I went back to grandpa’s again.
And I love the smell of dead leaves in the woods in the fall.
I love the fragrance of the first pink and blue hepaticas which have hardly any scent at all.
I love the smell of the big summer rain drops on the dusty dry steps of the school house.
I love the breath of the great corn fields when you ride past them on an August evening in the dark.
I love to see the wind blowing over tall grass.
I love the yellow afternoon light that turns all the trees and shrubs to gold.
I love to see the shadows of a cloud moving over the valley, especially where the different fields have different colors like a great checkerboard.
I love the little ford over Turtle creek where they did not build the bridge after the freshet.
I love the sunset on the hill in Winebago county, where I used to sit and pray about my mental arithmetic lesson the spring I taught school!
--Vachel Lindsay
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Mr. Neveland Brand Jr. is home form Chapel Hill for the week-end and has as his visitor Mr. McIver Edwards. Mr. Edwards has just finished his course at the University of North Carolina and is returning to his home in Darlington, S.C.
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Charlotte News: Miss Ruth Martin, of Madison, Wisc., and Miss Ann Tallaferro will arrive home Saturday night from Asheville and Hendersonville, where they have spent the past week. Miss Martin will then resume her visit to Mr. and Mrs. John Tillett, the latter her sister, on North Tryon street.
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Mrs. Urchie (Archie?) Ellis, of Columbia, S.C., is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Berram Quelch.
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The League of Women Voters will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 in the Sorosis rooms.
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Virginian-Polit: Mr. and Mrs. Grier Boatwright, of Richmond, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Boatwright in Dinwiddie Street, Portsmouth.
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Messrs. Irving Davis, Jack Thompson and John Spillman have motored to Fayetteville to spend the week-end.
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At Grace Methodist
At the evening service at Grace church the following numbers will be sung: “Cantate Domino” (Dudfrey Bock), and “Angels Ever Bright and Fair,” a soprano, alto and baritone composed by Mr. W.T. Murphy of the Grace church choir.
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Many friends in Wilmington will be interested to learn that little Julia Wilson Wheat, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.I. Wheat, of New Orleans, will give the dance of the dew drop at the annual May ball of her dancing class school in the famous Louisiana city. Wee Miss Wheat delighted two audiences at Lumina last summer when she won the first prize for fancy dancing in the children’s contest and several nights later gave a dance, being rewarded by a basket of pink roses almost as large as her own pink-ruffled self.
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Many friends of Mr. W.G. Robertson, of Richmond, formerly organist at St. James, are delighted to welcome him here for a visit. Mr. Robertson arrived Friday afternoon and was met at the train by the music committee of St. James. Mr. Robertson is staying at the Y.M.C.A. and will remain in Wilmington until after Easter and many will be interested to know that he will play the Easter music at St. James. He will also play at the evening service at St. James tonight.
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Mrs. Boyden R. Sparks, of New York, and small daughters, Betty and Dorothy, will arrive this morning to spend the month of April with Mrs. Sparks’ mother, Mrs. Cuthbert Martin. Mr. Sparks, who is on the staff of the New York Tribune, is awaiting a call to Pennsylvania to write a feature article on the coal strike.
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Students’ Plays Welcomed
Two one-act plays, “Spreading the News,” and “The Masque of the Two Strangers,” were presented by the N.H.H.S. Dramatic Club Friday evening to a most enthusiastic crowd which filled all the seats in the high school auditorium, and showed its appreciation of the young students’ work by spirited applause. No admission was charged, the members of the club desiring to let the public see what they are doing in the way of dramatics, and it is thought that the club’s next step will be the putting on of a longer and more difficult play.
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Mr. C.A. Easterling, of Columbia, S.C., returned home Friday after spending several days in the city on business. Mr. Easterling was guest-of-honor at a delightful oyster roast given by several of his friends on Thursday evening.
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Their Nickname is “Good Sports”
The American Magazine contains a most interesting sketch of two students at the University of North Carolina—both blind. In a most amazing way these boys, one blind from childhood and one for about eight years—have taken hold of life and are studying to be lawyers. The former, Buford Warsham, of Reithband, Va., is forging ahead in athletics, and the latter, Sam Cathey, of Skyland, N.C., is an ardent worker in one of the literary societies. Both dance and take an active interest in social affairs. Neither will admit that his blindness handicaps him and both stand among the highest in their class.
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A Few Words From Florence
“When are you going to print another letter from Miss Shaw?” asked an eager reader of those delightful epistles yesterday. And it is a pleasure to comply with such a request immediately.
Florence, Italy, March 13
“. . . . We came to Florence yesterday, and of course have just begun to see and take in the wonders of this beautiful city. The shades of Michael Angelo, Dante, Savanarola, Petrarch, Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Murale and many, many others loom up in our minds and we wonder why we haven’t known more abut them—why haven’t we remembered more?
“Tomorrow we have decided, rather we decided today, to join a Cook’s party and get these places and pictures located, then we can go back and see things such as Murillo’s Virgin and Chield Raffaelo’s Madonna of the Gold Finch, Madame LeBrun’s picture of herself, and Raphael’s (Raffaello’s) Madinna of the Chair.
“I am so happy to be here. We haven’t seen anyone we know except a couple from Pittsburgh, who hailed us in early morn as we came to the station in Venice in the gondola. It was a thrilling last ride in Venice through quiet, still dark canals silently and mysteriously.
“I have heard from Susan. She expects me Thursday in Rome. Miss Chickering goes back to Constantinople Friday from Venice, leaving here Thursday afternoon, while I go to Rome, getting there about 6 o’clock in the afternoon. I certainly will be glad to see Susan. You know I am so fond of her. Miss Herron, I hope, will be there, too. “I must close this and go to sleep tomorrow will be a busy day sightseeing Yow I do always wish for you. Wouldn’t you enjoy ever minute of this wonderful country?”
Your Daughter,
Ruth
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Benson-Sneeden
Okey N. Benson and Miss Fannie Sneeden, both of this city, were united in marriage Saturday evening, March 25, at 8 o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John Hoyde Jr. in Epworth parsonage.
From The Wilmington Morning Star, April 2, 1922
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