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Lilla W. Sickler, Paia, San Diego Co,, Cal.
For Nutcrackers’ Corner.
THE APOTHEOSIS OF OUR MYSTIC
ART.
Senorita.
Many the passions the human heart
Thro’ its varying life may discover;
A gamut of love'sakin to all men,
Familiar the wide world over.
But there is a passion uot born to the mass,
’Tis a birthright not common to many—
The love of the Sphinx, the queen of Thedom—
a passion absorbing as any.
If ever such thing as a labor of love
Is performed by human powers.
Such labor, I think, we may surely declare
As being the nature of ours.
We give of our time, our thought and our wit,
Tho’ far weightier matters await us.
And reward for our toil? Its mental delights
Are. always enough to elate us.
And the bond of fraternity, subtle bond,
It holds us in perfect union.
We love every link of its precious chain,
Every phase of its sweet communion.
How dear to our hearts the mysterious tie
Thro’ unmeasured space that unites—
How we treasure the largess of fellowship true
Its investing charm that invites !
NUTSTO CRACK
No. 232. Apheresis.
But a moderd whole, that five
Solvers surely can divine.
♦ * «{< ♦ * *
’Twas in the misty days of eld,
A stream of sparkling water welled
From ice cold depths and bubbling swelled
Into a gladsome spring;
And round its banks of emerald green
Tn smiling mo>n or moonlit e’en
The frogs and grasshoppers were seen
To leap, and heard to sing.
But one dark day the frogs began
To catch the hoppers a« they ran.
And leaping croaked, “Eat if you can,
The right to might belongs.”
“Not so, my friends,” the hopper cries,
“All gladness, peace and glory dies
When might protecting care denies
And binds the weak with thongs.”
Mv hearer kind, are you the frog.
Intent ou feasting through the bog;
And then sit croaking on a log
In selfishness and pride?
Or do yon hop upon the breeze,
And chirping sing through flowers and trees,
“Give equal rights, sirs, if yon please,
Stand squarely side by side?”
Pasadena, Cal. Hannah E. Taylor.
No. 233. Charade.
Blithe, thro’ the meadows I danced along,
In the golden beauty of early day,
With Time for company—Primal strong—
Plodding onward, sedate and gray,
“Time, thou laggard 1 m”ke has'e,” I cried,
“See, far yonder the feasts await.
Mirth and music in joyous tide—
Youth and Health with their glance e'ate—”
Slowly Ti -e shook his grizzled head.
“I may not hasten,” he gentlv said.
In fragrant bowers, ’neath mellow skies,
Friends in their genial circles drew—
Love wove round them his subtle ties.
Witching beauty her glamour threw.
“The upward pith groweth steep and wild—
Friends of my mature lari. are here.
Here let us tarry. Old Time ” I smiled,
“ We’ll brim Life’scup with theircordial cheer,”
Sagely Time shook his frostv head.
“I may not tarry,” he firmlys aid.
The night, winds swept with damp gusts of rain,
I heard the splash of a wintry sea.
“On, still onward, thro' storm or pain,
Whither, Time, art thou leading me?”
When Jo, a rift in the western skies,
A radiant glimpse of a strangle, sweet shore,
I dropped Earth’s treasures in glad surprise,
And stretched my arms to the loved of yore.
Softly Time shook his reverent head,
“Patiently bide thy all,” he said.
Davenport, lowa. Annie Laurie,
No. 234. Charade.
This is the one two, the time
That prime? bestowed upon the chase;
When the fierce heats of two were gone,
And sometimes left a frost in place
I love the time. The soft blue melting haze
Hangs like a blessing o’er these complete days.
Washington, D. C. Waldemar.
No. 235. Diamond.
1. A letter. 2. To cry like a crow. 3.
A leather leash, or other instrument of
punishment, used by a school master. 4.
Disturbs. 5. A village of Italy, province
of Como. 6. Words difficult to pronounce.
7 A town of Sweden, in Finland (Wore.)
8 A European cruciferous herb. 9. A
small column or pillar. 10. A Southern
constellation. 11. A letter.
Washington, D. C. Lucile.
No. 236. Square.
1. Jalap (Dung). 2. Town of France—
Dept. Yonne. 3. Town of S. France. 4.
Geiman physician, 1540-1600. 5. The cen
tral column of parenchyma in a growing
stem. 6. A courier. 7. Old.
"Worcester, Mass. Lorraine,.
No 237. Anagram.
I'Ve Value Lovers Th(u)s.
A blue sky over-head,
Lush grass beneath our feet,
The linnet’s song, the oak tree’s shade,
Do yon remember, Sweet?
The sun-beams filtered through
The friendly, sombre leaves,
And turned to gold your sunny hair,
Fragrant as autumn sheaves.
O, tender, sweet blue eyes,
Matched by the blue above,
I did uot dream their tenderness
Could die beneath my love.
I did not dream your heart
Could e’er be bought for gold—
Your mignon face, and graceful form.
For millions could be sold.
I watch you as you pass
O, sweetheart,’ you are mine— ;
The rose tint deepens on your cheek
As in the old “lang syne.”
He walks beside you there
With purse-proud, haughty mien—
He bought your beauty, O. my Sweet,
But not your love, my queen.
Baltimore, Md. Gwendoline.
No. 238. Anagram.
A woman went, but let her be still.
“We ask so little.
Eagerly we stand and wait
Just outside the barred gate
That shuts us from the road we fain would
travel.
Brethren, all we asa of you—
Let us vote, and then we, too,
Thequestions of the day will help unravel.”
“We ask so little.
Just that you would stay at home.
Tend the children, wash'and comb,
And keep the pots and pans a-shining
brightly.
You must not ask to vote, my dear,
Because it is not woman’s sphere:
Your sex must never e’en be thought on
lightly.”
“We ask so little.
And nray. sir, what Is ‘woman’s sphere?’
What would you have us do while here?”
“So little that it scarce is worth the men
tion.
Just cook our meals and mend our socks,
Attend the door when some one knocks,
And always keep the home free from con
tention.
“We ask so little.
Just see that buttons are in place,
And ever wear a smiling face,
And ready be to answer every question.
See that the steak is not too rare,
And yet be sure i’s juice is there.
So's not to bring upon us indigestion.
‘ We ask so little.
Just brush our hats and hang them up,
And bring our razors, shaving cups,
And always have the blacking brushes
handy.
Be sure the paper’s by our plate,
So that for business we’re not late,
And ke» p our Sunday clothes all ‘spick
and spandy.’ ”
“You ask so little.
And in return what do we get,
Or are we ever in your debt?”
“My dear, weTl’render you full compensa
tion.
For in return we will be true,
And home and raiment give to you,
And opportunity for meditation.
"You need so little.
You shall the 'queen of kitchen’ be;
None shall dispute thy rule with thee,
And we’ll forgive each thoughtless act,
repented.
We all will keep Dame Nature’s laws,
And then must happy b°, because
There would be naught to make us dis
contented.
We ask so little.”
Los Angeles, Caf. Marshall.
WOMAN’S WORK.
No. 239. Anagram.
They talked of Harvard’s famed Annex,
Os Sydney and of Girton,
And Dense laid down the law of sex,
In terms severe and certain.
“The woman who would win my heart,”
Said this potential lover,
“Must take the still, domestic part,
Nor reach for things above her.
“So always, i’d one quest in life,
Whatever low or high do;
I’m still resolved to have a wife
Who won’t know more than I do.”
With downcast eves, and cheeks of pink,
And voice like any mavis.
She whole, —“Dear me. where do you think
To find this rara aDisV’
I Springfield, 111. M. C. 8.
No. 240 Oblique Rectangle.
1. A et'er. 2. To disc >ver. 3. Re
moves. 4 O e whorepeats. 5. Contend
ed (Rare). 6. Minerals. 7. Jointed legs
of insects. 8 Compound bryozoan=. 9.
Those who believe in government by the
people. 10. Having very minute notches
(Bot). 11. Marine nudibranchiate mol
lusks. 12. Producing stamens. 13. A dis
temper in hawks. 14. Purposes. 15. Long
rafts used in Russia. 16 Plowed 17. A
word expressi g affirmation. 18 A letter.
Binghamton, N. Y. Frantz.
No. 241. Transposition.
In the old charmed days of nymphs, nixies and
fays,
Reigned a beautiful mermaid under the sea;
On a far primal throne than an earth-queen might
own,
In the marvelous, still, twilit deep reigned she.
Her fair lip, cheek and eye were more biilliant
in dye
Than the scarf of linked fish-scales she liked
to wear;
And a crown of rich gems held the delicate
stems
Os the pale green sea-ferns in her golden hair.
But alas! Grim Unrest stirred her cold, selfish
breast,
And she longed for a mortal on whom to try
The strange spell that her dower of rare beauty
had power
To cast ’round the sea-monsters that met her
eye.
So she made a shell harp, whose two notes,
sweet and sharp,
To the far upper world of her dreams might
swell,—
Notes whose pleading was sure, some pale mortal
to lure
To the realm where the slimy finned creatures
dwell.
The harp finished at last, her skilled fingers she
passed
O’er the glittering strings (she had deftly three
It with strands of her hair) coaxing melodies
there
Such as never yet throbbed through the twilit
sea.
But oh, strange, divine strain, with its sobbing
refrain!—- ■.
The wild, sad, thrilling notes in her vain bosom
woke
A faint glow—’twas the dawn of a heart newly
born,
That, alas! —of its own sudden quickening
broke.
Georgetown, 6. C. Mabel P.
No. 242. Transposition.
We would not abide forever
With primals ghostly crew,
On that dark, and dismal river,
Neither would we wish to two.
In a famous city olden—
Three governed perchance well.
In our own State, fair, and golden,
Many on a final dwell.
Oakland, Cal. Hattie Heath.
No. 243. Rhomboid.
Across;—l. Deportment. 2. One who
rages. 3. A small wooden vessel. 4. Per
taining to the plague. 5. A figure by
which a compound word is separated by
the intervention of one or more words. 6.
The awn.
Down:—l. A letter from Woman’s
Work. 2. A relation of degree. 3. A
plant 4. To fasten. 5. A parasitic fun
gus. 6. Administration. 7. A carpenter’s
tool. 8. If not. 9. A Scripture proper
name. 10. An abbreviation. 11. A letter
from “Adelante.”
Ypsilanti, Mich. Ypsie.
KERNELS. (August.)
No. 207. (By Pallas.)
(To Ed. Ward.)
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No. 244. Apocopation.
’Tis Sabbath, blessed day,
Sparkling the dew-drops on the sod,
Choristers swiftly wend their way
To the peaceful church; soon sweetest lay
Bursts forth “an anthem ” to our God.
From song of praise curtail a letter,
And as the members, church do leave.
They stop in groups, the more the better,
A “place of meeting for discussion,”
Thus, they in glory do believe.
The “place of meeting,” curtail now—
We have a i ret’y “witticism”—
When some are “in it.” this I trow
They surely use—when knowing how,
Attho’ ’tis but a Gallicism.
For the last time, now cut off my feet,
Os letters less am I, yet “more,’'
Am always found as obsolete,
But still a word that can’t be beat
Tho’ truly trust, I’m not a bore
Ivanhoe, Cinti., 0. May Be.
No. 245. Numerical.
I’m very fond of 1-2-3
That helps to make things pleasant,
But my 1 to 4 of ideas flee
When I would have them present.
My 6 to 11 qualities
Are rather evanescent.
When 6-7-8 say 5 to 8,
With.sanctimonious bearing,
And 4-5-6 affairs of state
For which the nation’s caring,
Perhaps the robe immaculate
Scarce fits them for the wearing.
I 5-6 a 4 to 7 small
Os ancient generation;
But don't blame 6-7 if I fall
Below your estimation;
For really, I have no all
Rules for mystification.
Waite, Maine. A idyl.
No. 246. Numerical
1,7, church one blessed night
A maiden knelt in prayer,
Her dress composed ot purest white,
She looked an angel there.
The 4,3, 5, was white with bloom,
The moon shone over-head,
The air replete with sweet perfume,
The sky with stars o’erspread.
Her prayers were said. She rose and moved
With matchless grace and mien,
And arm in arm with 6,8, 2,
She sought her home again.
Portland, Oregon. Rubra.
No. 247. Hexagon.
1. An angry tumor. 2. Thoughts. 3.
Tending to produce putreiaction. 4 Prates.
5 Mute. 6. A collection of scraps from
various authors. 7. To obstruct.
Ayers, Mass. Undine.
No. 248. Star.
1. A letter. 2. An abbreviation. 3.
Plentiful. 4. Musical dramas. 5. A spe
cies of hickory found in North America,
and producing smooth, oblong ruts. 6.
A long and rambling invective. 7. Sighed.
8. A pronoun. 9. A letter.
Georgetown, 8. C. Saxon.
No. 249. Single-letter Enigma.
In waving fields of “golden grain"
YV here summer "breezes play' ’ —
In shrieking, rushing ‘ railroad train"
Swift "speeding on” its way—
In tender words that “lovers speak"—
In "murmured answer," sweet —
In "quick mien" and manner meek, —
In friends who “kindly greet’'
In baby’s laugh, to "mother’s heart"
’Tis music “sweetest, best"—
In "sorrow's wail” when death must part,
In souls that “find no rest''
In many men of “many minds"—
Complete will, oft, be found
Success it brings of many kinds,
’Tis strong the whole world ’round—
It plants itself in human breast,
Takes foothold none may move—
Stands firm and true, with lordly crest,
Its power sure to prove—
Washington, D. C. G. Race.
OCTOBER, 1894.