' ADVERTISER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1916 











THE MAGNOLIA 



From the Spanish of the South American 

 poet. Jose Santos Chocano. Translated by 

 Alice Stone Blackwell. 

 Deep in the forest, full of song and 



fragrance, 

 Blooms the magnolia, delicate and 



light, 



Like snowy wool among the thorns 



entangled, 

 Or, on the quiet lake, a foam-flake 

 • white. 



Its vase is worthy of a Grecian 

 maker, 



A marble wonder of the classic days. 

 It shows its fine, firm roundness, like 

 a lady 



Who with bared breast her loveli- 

 ness displays. 









Talk of Today 



| Letters to the F 







'ng Agriculture in Cities 





The Irisu Execu' 



J.O tile J^UILUI . — 



I am not an Irishma 

 try for as far back as 







Y STERLING, Massachusetts 

 omestead Commission. 



t passage of the bill en- 







ding Agriculture to Fam- 

 he way to evolutionary 

 ■y changes in the ecort- 

 s of Massachusetts, 

 ions of this bill any 

 Hsh and maintain 

 iting families and 

 ns of day, part- 

 ies in gardening, 

 -Jture, poultry- 

 lsbandry and 



any way, is English 

 confess that I feel 

 sympathy with the 







in this city on Su 

 this Government ti 

 British Governme 







ient policy towai 

 . In this I feel 

 the American < 

 working for t 

 all the Britis' 

 tipns do not 

 for a better 

 be rememl 







Is it a pearl? Is it a' tear? We know 

 not! 



Between it and the moon, with mys- 

 tery rife, 



There is some unknown story of en- 

 chantment. 



In which perhaps a white dove lost 

 its life; 







•iculture and 

 >n and organ- 

 the iristruc- 







o the ap- 

 cation. 

 ed to the 



come wit 

 those wh' 

 moveme' 







i of the 

 annual 

 effect 

 ■jority 

 1 the 



For it is pure and white and light and 

 graceful. 



Like a soft moonbeam on a snowbank 



believe, 

 of all 

 Britis 







deep, 



That rests upon the snow and min- 

 gles with it: 

 Or like a dove upon the branch asleep. 



rule 

 had 

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