Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba With a Poet In Praise of Impossible Idealism an1 i ing expert He and brigin full Jim Wiis yoting liat and book jtarir1 field was cincf it I 1 are I vinjr come some dis along the country turned aside to a iiciiin it without per into a field fac all un I upon a pale v ii a book in his under a upon tile hi sunshine lay ihoiiKh all about A thin lank hair htly over his tem no crease in his iiN tie was me lie put the him and sat y it me as if to t nee is most un tho mine as 10 neither of you mi doing Uie w aid Very ynir saiil would in this III iesii rarely I1 To ihi i i very But obtain what iihiainiiiR we h1 made i lovid so I t se rcad in ir u IS ex CfTnn iH fu nill allow to run e Now we mil ii iiavo been I ii i ll VO11 1 llt poems ot ad Koats uetjk he may escape into a garden fil led with sunshine and the sound of singing birds as he his face was his eyes and dropping my mockery and putting aside my fell said the pale young man was a very young world will never be a good place to live in and life will never at tain that perfection which God in tended until men have become hungry for the You will laugh at me when I tell you that I feel I am called to embark upon a mission of a curious kind said with I will not at I said he that my lifes mission is to rekindle a love of to inflame mens hearts to an appreciation of all that is beautiful in the world and in And how will you accomplish this I His knuckles were white as he gripped his copy of I shall lead a crusade against all that is bad and said I shall spend my life urging men that by looking at ugly things they com mit suicide I will have the slums cleared away and all un unclean books condemn the cinemas shall show wholesome and the newspapers shall not report mur ders or and in schools cnlldreri shaM le fattght fo reaB from and all their books shall be and men and women shall band themselves into companies and societies and shall save their money instead of spend ing it on drink and harmful pleas and onoe every year they shall visit Italy and and see the glories of the and the law shall compel every man to own a and he will have to keep it and every day millhand and the the read at least one good poem and medi tate therein for half an hour And when he had finished I opened my mouth to speak and to tell that very young man that all his idealism was and that many men preferred beer to blank verse and fish and chips to poetry and sex novels to noble thoughts and that human nature contained much of the brute and that when he was as old Page Qllilt Club I By Florence La Ganke IK M iiDl ill ii read iu VOUDK d And Poetrv is and beauty Is found nut Is home iiut soul oanniit expand t be it Eefdtho y is the horizon as its said I perrrfive 1 with a 1 have a said but I it as soon as it was Why Because it did nut sntisry Nothing said I perceive I speak not only with a also with a I suppose never read poetry the pale young man ob Not I But 1 vcquenily recite As I was coming along the road a few minutes ago I was repeating beautiful lines As Samy Snooks and Bessie Brooks Were walking out one SaiJ Sammy Snooks to Bessie Tomorrow will be As I said this I noticed that the pale young man was writhing as if in an agony of Poetry he That isnt it makes my heart ache to think that there are so many people in the world who have no poetry in their who have no appreciation of tho it I pointed ser Brooks and nooks rhyme But it isnt poetry he with Oh said Tbon what is said waving his copy of Keats in the Poetry is the expression of the music of the holiday of beautiful the garment of noble ideas and great emo lions ami the unfeeling is lilic a condemned pris oner in his cell while all the time poetry is lie inugic Jey whereby AUGUST Palm or Fan Quilt Pattern ON the day that the Nancy Page quilt club members assem bled Xancy prepared a large drawingof her newest design for a Tell you what Ill said give me a name for this pattern and Ill award the Whats Nancy A fresh devils food baked this Whereupon Martha immediately named the Devils Another name suggested was Crows Jean suggested palm Scarlet lily was another Felices fan was Graces I dont see how I can de cide which name is most fitting or so suppose I cut the cake and give you all a And as they ate the cake and drank the ice coffee topped with whip ped they discussed the best colors to use and the most attrac tive ways to put the pattern to They were all agreed that fast color material must be used that the pieces roust cut with a quarter inch seam allowance on all sides that the design and de scription as given in the paper and which yon are now reading should he kept in their Xancy Page quilt scrap AH of the members had made the scrap They had recehed the instruction just as you by writing Nancy care this and enclosing a selfaddressed envelope wiJi the The question the size of the block came up for discussion The finished block will be twelve inches It may be put to gether with another pieced block duplicating this pattern or it may becombined with a twelve inch white block or cue of black and white or red or blue and white polka dotted The group began to place the various shaped blocks according to the The small square up in the left hand corner which is marked 4 white is used in the four of the The larger square in which the smaller one is drawn and which is marked 5 white colored is used in the centre of the pieced In the small drawing only three of the blocks are but in the finished pattern all tour would The drawing is made that way to look prettier in the but in real quilt there would be our of the fans or claws or And the stem or handle of each one of the four would be made of Surrounding them and also iu the very centre are the large square white blocks five in The white rectangles go along the sides the the S white triangles go between the 16 colored which make the fronds of the the folds of the fan or the extended claws or the devils Then there is left that great big triangle up per left marked 4 colored for each That triangle makes the body the the fan or In the illustration there are only three of the colored ones shown but the fourth one is in the part the block left un The color scheme depends upon the name and the room in which the quilt will Red and white for devils Green and white for palm tree and pastel colors for the Take your said We chorused the club Once Burned I always did say that Brown would never marry I suppose she thinks theres not another man in the world like her late Quite the She thinks there and shes alraid she miglit get I was He would afscover I say I opened my mouth to give him this but I did not give It I held my I shook bis hand and I God prosper my and God be with you your great and keep your idealism ever before your Then I left and I walked along the road and I was What a wonderful thing it is to ue young How wonderful to be ignorant the worst and con fident of the best God be thank ed for the dreamers and idealists even though they become plumbers and clerks and drapers and com fortable justices of the peace Even if they grow old as indeed they must and they lose their idealism and become practical men no better than the rest of even it is something to have seen heaven touching to have had poetry in ones to have meant to lead a crusade and establish a new Jerusalem v THE FRIENDLY Big Business Girl Continued Page Thirteen see that he was implying that had made a mess of I think youre a pretty big per son and that you have a big and I know youll excuse me for saving now that youve confessed your intentions concern ing ought to be travelling with more experienced cau give you something socially and not unstable I thinlc there is a lot in you that can be brought cut by a different type of You I been thinking about you a lot sinto Saturday I like His smile was Mac saw him again as siie hail seen him at his man of orcf and physically at obviously successful anil very sure of himself with other but only nicely hopeful so far as women were A man of She had to tell him about bat she couldnt When he went out of her little she had promised to go to dinner She had to make up her mind before next Monday about leaving she thought sudden she didnt want to leave hero at She wanted to to be near this chancing Per haps after all he would find a way to make the work interesting and She wanted to stay She searched her mini for And she found that they had nothing to do with Macs brain was still This was a crisis in her career she knew she had to make up her mind now whether she was going to be a woman or a busi ness To be continued Pirates Ahoy Continued from Page Two voyage on her fathers She was badly frightened by the pir but impressed by the polite solicitude of the handsome Captain of the She had ac companied the suave Joseph aboard the Good and was being the statue before which the crew was wont to pay its devo when a round shot whistled through the and the Good Luck was at once seen to be de cidedly out of A great Venetian one uoit of a fleet that had been sent out to apprehend was coming up Her strength of armament was The Good Luck The English prize went on her and a romantic but sad English maiden went back to Iier quiet to dream of gallant Francis Joseph ami his entire crew were hanged in PAGE FIFTEEN ;