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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Old Fashioned Beau Wins Lady Fair With Charm of His Original Verse
All the world loves a lover, and it seems that although the style and custom of courtship changes, the interest in it is constant.
One of the favorite gifts of our grandfathers to their sweethearts was an autograph album. Grandmothers' is a hoary old book now, shaped like a student notebook, with the leather torn, and the gilt dimmed. The front is just like the back, and the triangular panel in the center is and on it in gilt are now scarcely legible words, "Pensez a moi."
The frontspiece has a picture of two girls. One of them is dressed in black, with a dark shawl over her head. Her eyes are downcast, and it is no trouble to identify her as the one designated in the title of the picture. The girl in the foreground has a wisp of hair curled in front of her ears, and a slender ribbon with a little pearl pendant hanging coquettishly down in the center of her forehead. Around her throat, another pendant is hung. Her srawl is white, and is allowed to billow back from her head to show the curve of her throat and one shell-like ear. Her dress is of heavy silk that can almost be heard to rustle, and a cape of heavy velvet is caught low on her back with a cluster of artificial flowers. One of her daintily gloved hands is turned obviously to show the embroidery on the back of it, and the other gracefully balances a fan. Modesty and Vanity, the long-time-ago painter called them, and modesty and vanity they have remained for all the long years they have lain in attics.
On the first page of the album there is a note, written in a careful old script. "Please accept this book as a small token of friendship and esteem from a friend, and may the thoughts and sentiments of your friends which may be written in this album be cherished in your memory while life shall last." Above the dedication is: Presented to Miss Almyra Gordon, July 19, 1857, and below it from your friend, G. S. Corwin, Franklin, Ohio.
On the next page there is an approach to familiarity, and the bold swain begins "Dedicated to Allie":
To write in thy album, lady fair,
Is the task to which I now repair,
Yet to dedicate this book to thine
Requires an abler pen than mine.
A pledge a friendship here I give
And one I trust will ever live,
And be remembered long by you
As a pledge of friendship true.
A single page is all I claim
To trace thy loved and cherished
And still I ask to make the plea
That you may often think of me.
May wisdom's ways of pleasantness
Thy footsteps guide in paths of
peace And virtue, like a charm impart Its peaceful influence round thy heart.
May no rude blast or secret woe
Eer cause a tear of grief to flow
Or cast a shadow o'er thy brow
Wrich beams with youth and beauty
now.
And may you live a life of peace
And may your happiness increase Until you cease to dwell below And to that better land shall go. S G
Any Miss 1930 who received this note would undoubtedly go into a mild case of hysterics, but evidently Miss Almyra liked it, for the courthouse at Franklin records the marriage of Almyra Gordon and Stephen G. Corwin on the twelfth of June in 1859.
ACCIDENTS ARE PREVENTED BY FINDING FAULTS IN RAILS
Since its acceptance in 1928 by this group, detector cars have been placed in use on several railroads, and the number of bad rails located is mute evidence of the disasters averted.
Telling what the inside of a sound-looking locomotive rail is like without waiting for a train wreck to disclose the fact, is an achievement of science that is daily saving lives. Early in 1927, it was demonstrated in the laboratory that electricity could be used successfully to diagnose the flaws in steel rails. After months of experimentation the first detector car was constructed for the American Railway Engineering Association.
Appointed Aide to Woodring
Appointed Aide to Woodring Chester Shore, editor of the Augusta Gazette, has been selected by Governor Harry Woodring as one of his personal aides. The number of the governor's aides was increased by the recent legislature to 12, four of whom were announced by Mr. Woodring Sunday. Mr. Woodring is a graduate of the University with a major in the department of journalism.
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