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"I think that l shall never as] "I A poem as lovely as a tree."

Joyos Kline:

lt being thstime of year when sll the trees are st the height of their perfection. so lovely and wonderful. the idea suggested itself to write oi‘ Joyce Kiimer. the young American soldier-poet whose poem called "Trees" has been perhaps more often quoted than any other in his two bookg or vcrse. l-le was killed in France in tho summer of i018. and l have only just read of mother‘s "Memories"- which include over eighty letters she IcNEiVHI from him. mostly wring“ u, hi-r ili-Elllillflll where shc went each summer for several years before the. war. though a few of them were dated Headquarters. France, A. E. PM. when he was serving with he Ameri- can colors.

"Memories" contains. also. s num- hor of poems written by the poet to his mother on various birthdays. and Valentine's days. The one-written on hr-r birthday, August. ltll-i. which was scat to her with a hook of poems. may he appropriately quoted here:

ilreatest of critics. does your memory

iloi . (l know it does) s record of the days When l. s schspl boy. earned your gencriaus praise. ..1- Fill‘ illiiiliif W"? End stories crudely’ told? " Orcr those boyish scrawls the years

have rolled.‘ p,

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‘he same as his) that the gypslgs ma] l’ Preferred their nomadic life."

Wllkllll Adt-sntvsres

What follows suggests Kilmer and his mother would hart made ideal Ramblers. "Always w. would start out on strange roads" sbc writes. "for the beaten track had littlc attraction for us. and sometimes when: we were not quite sure of our hear- ings “id did not want to get hupelegg. ‘y los. we would lay a branch of u tree. with s big spray of golden rod to point the holncward way."

One day they strayed fur from homo tad airs. Kilmer relates an adventurc revealing u lively sense of humor which mother and son shared.‘

All Joyt-l-‘s letters to his mother dance on the surface. drawing the eyc away from underlyirrg deeps where ‘cars arc hiding. This adventure. told u» naively by tho mother. would de- light The Tramp:

that .l oycc

lt was hot antldusty and we very utuch wanted our dinner. We mot an old man driving an empty farm wagon. and on the spur of the moment lsnid 'o him. “l wish you were going our way." The old man very deliberately stopped his horse rind said. "lley?" l‘ repeated my remark a little louder. ipnlt which ho climbed down out of his wagon and putting his horny hand in his car. walked up to me saying. “Ynu‘ii hev to spcak a little louder. alarm. I'm ruther dull o‘ hearinh" l n veiled it and he replied "So do

They might not bear the world's un- frleadly gsse.

But still your smile shines down fam~ ‘this time. was some "in wars. |ltut he came back.

lcllnllml in anti. drove oﬂ.

and walked back to his wagon. Joyce by distance ahead. and with his

Touches my words and turns their shouldsrs shaking with laughter. ssid. dross to gold. "Well. it serves you right for talkinll don't know." liut l al-

Ito people you bearer today than in that happy timenwuys did. and it om (‘omos your high praise to mske me'right when

proud and strong.

in my poor notes you splendid chime.

5o unto you does this my work belong.

Take. then. this little book of fragile rhyme:

Your heart will change it to authentic song.

» Golden Memories.

"And now he is gone. and l bsve only memories to live on." writes Joyce‘_s mother. early in her book. add- ing: "But such tnemorieaW-splendidly heroic when one thinks of the‘ loneli- ness that must have been hers. for they had been wonderful pals. iihe was "always the same sge" as her son. she says somewhere. ,

Never was n mother hetter loved- thanvl. and never a mother ‘who was s bettercomtads. l speak in sll bum- ility. but l know that our congenial tastes made us cntireiy happy togeth- er. l‘ have every letter. save one. he ever wrote to me. and my sleepinp room is full of his pictures from six months to thirty years.

Ons of her golden memories of thst son. who touched the heights of geni- us in his poem "Trees." was of the wonderful walks they bad together one summer in England. where sbs went to arrange for s memorial window for an English ancestor. Thomas Kilburn. who hsd been church warden at Wood Ditton in fsmbridgeshirs.

Mrs. Kiimer relates littls incidents that were the inspiration of some of his poems. For instance. the last three verses of "Roots" were inspired by the sight of some gypsics breaking esmp in the Berkshires. forced to move swsy tths writer says) on the complaint hf "some pbsrisslcal person" wblie they were on one- of their long walks to- gether. Joyce hsd ssid to ber: "it seems too bad the gypsies should ai- wsys have to move around so." and they both agreed thst "some dsy" they would huy s lot somewhere and put up a sign

GYPSlER lNVlTED To pitch their tents here

By order of

The Owners. . The lot vvss duly bought. but some- how the sign was nsver put up. says th'e mother. "Perhaps we realised when we grew up (for my sge was always

TiliiiiBLEil Willi ECZEMAQi FADE

V ii h . C dE iﬂlrgs. (éouldaltilfz: Sig: Cuiicura iiealed.

bear iove‘s :

ally came out all l didn't strike deaf ones.

llirsclo of a ﬂtsr.

her son's war entail" uu-es in a brave. disniﬂrd WI? — m“ aakiag a torturing tragedy of his lcath-.\irs. ltilmer tells of his pos- ‘hulilotts award Valor and the rays: "l am most proud with my Frrlégb ﬂlangm‘ t . whose ill’-

"tiiitled to twill “w ‘my’ "i" x n‘ -clvetl news 0i’ m? ‘NV. ‘ioﬂou.

death."

Touching on

like the 394"‘

t b ‘ do n“ “Mm “ (‘her sons Wbrﬂ

tan mother who told er coins i"'° “m” m "nmhnlotht-‘m their ‘shields. or up d~ be the vcrY I'm" ' r- in all the world because

est moths-Io,“ Knmﬂ. was. and is.

sergeant my son. " remembered

One thing the mhotgregmfa helium" with gladncss was § ‘ue he Bu" character. “in all hs h!“ told me a seemed always af sll pretense. B11 was not exactly W lie hsd s horror 0f l" eity. l have often a must hsvt! been. will 1 u m sensitive nature. ‘i0 Milli" l m" tho dreadful game of WI!‘-

When he enlisted. two Vi“! "i" n“ United States entered the war. hc cslled his mother on the telephone snd told her. She just said “0h." she re- "Like many another mother l did not grasp whst it might mesa; l only knew that he had dons the only thing my son could do. st such I time."

‘lle was already s member of the Columbia Officers a inins Coral. and he was also very busy on what was to be his sixth and last book-“Dreama and images." an Anthology of Catholic Verse. He enlisted in the Seventh New York Regiment. and during part of the summer o! i917. he was at the Regimental Armory. going back and forth to his desk on the New York Times. .

Bsylns Good-Bye.

Joyce Kilmer graduated from Col- uuthis- on llsy 28. i008. and in Junfot tbs same year. be married Aline Mur- ray. of lileutchen. NJ. From that time on. "perhaps by reason of the eksc~ tions of his literary work." suggests his mother. he seemed to loss sll in- terest in his church (of England). in which st eighteen he had been s lay reader. snd sftsr he hsd been married about ﬁve years, became s Iiomsn Catholic. his wits entering that church at the same time. llrs. Kilmer states that sbs "was just as close to him through his brief married life as any mother could bs." lbs ssw blm nearly svsry Thursday. sad their lancbeons together sssm to hsvs been dsligbtt“. libs would taxi to tbs annex of tbs Times building sud ﬁnd Joyce waiting on tbs pavement rssdy to tsll tbs driver which restaurant be hsd select- sd ss tbsir rsnlssvous.

" iss allover from Iiksftsr that bis last ehllbdhriato-

pier-was born. . _. _ . .

ns a “fateful 0mm suds)" ma. Riitnsr saw Joya for tbs tins rtbssgs abs slu sot knew be was sall- tasososthforbswsssst ssyonhsvss bis mother. 0f tlls sbs Ipvsksr .

Bis wits was tssrs that dsy also. bid ss good-bye f kissed ssid ts bis wife. "Alias. you

as bitn as

To"! 2i" ‘ (By Dominion New ’ "'|

BERLIN. June l8.-'->0'n'e Odin-ran... lest mysteries of the Great‘ w" h" t thst. bad light ‘shed upon‘ u. '

The secret. perfectly kept for mo“ han nine years. concerns the tragic "i? "i l "P! close friend of two em- rerors; a man who. turning spy, é..- iblcd the Germans to win their deci- lve ‘victory against his own country.

uss s.

The victim of the tragedy. whi h vas so cleverly hushed up. was Lieu:- ‘olunel Mjassojotlovt‘. who. before the var. was chit-f of the liussian Fron- isr uendarmerie at Wirbulierl, on the ‘lasso-German border.

He was as handsome as the typical ‘iusaian uiliccr of luusicni comedy; he was a brilliant conversatlonalist in talf u down languages, and there were Sew sports in which he did not ext-cl. ile was equally wclcome in the high tocicty of Berlin and Vienna as in that "ranjnvrqasbpiigticular friend of the Tsar Nicholas and of the Kaiser Wil- liam. and was often scat by ontmig the other to smooth away tr" :1’ “:.":.':."..'";..'..:... wally. ﬁ W!‘ m‘ ' ranch with the other.

Whcnevcr the‘l(aist~r wettttlesizllatxiligl‘: m ‘he B“: ‘if “ermntiii “zllussoiedow -lid sevorn t mes u l‘ - ~ ‘ was always one of his liiaiestl‘ I Ellis‘? 1nd there were few lied?“ “M” ‘I; pony the monarch enioleﬂ 3° ‘Pm’ '

Then the war came. and in liebrusr)‘ litlb news reached llerlin that Mjasso- duw ad been executed for esili°ﬂl8° in favor of Germany.

The Kaiser was shocked. and. sl bi‘ was disinclined to believe (zinrmbai: friend's guilt. he asked-the at the Recret service to try w M"! °“

f t f the case. - a111,‘; preacher“, ¢o take s sml vleul of trouble. the Secret Berviltco‘ formed him thst it ‘lrzlcilunlelffnvtﬂved and that the court- . til nd execution had been ‘Ii’- ‘.‘,‘.‘§.',J.-- ‘by s powerful court ‘voila; ality who was iiljassoiriiﬂw i i’ v‘ (he affections of a beautiful St. Peters- bnrg woman.

There was every reason German Secret Serviﬁﬁ Film“? this story. No one‘ Kaiser thst one o was a spy. or to ad

for tbs out

out. traitor of days’ battle beiwwﬂ the. Germans in Elli t. 19H. ““-:..§'.§.".i:.'l»hs are made in No. 1i

l felt it was

w i

kiss him last." her right. although only ilgﬂdijtnft how hard it was for :16 had “ma! The nest do! 1 ‘"9’ i’ norm’... _ , . l lived through the mother- montha he was in Francs; ll when did in that horrible t m -d {h "we the news of his glorious ark Con“ 1 w“ quite alone in bitch 2 - a“ l;- where l hsd I0" m" . e‘ y rest. . . . l cannot writs of thst time- . . . . Two days afterwards the blue stsr in the Service pin be it!!! Si"?! ms changed to 8°15- I O O ‘II-Ell l think thst l sball never see A poem lovely as s tree— a tree whose huhsrv mouth ll Against the ssrth’s “v00! breast: A tree that looks st God sll dsy And lifts her leafy srms to prsy: A tree tbst may in summﬂ‘ W“! A nest of robinrlu her hair; ‘ llpon whose bosom snow has lninl Who intimately livss with I'll!!-

may

prest ﬁowlal

Poems are made by fools like me.

G d make s tree. But only o can _“,“ ‘“_"_

“I Q O as: wno ‘who-rs nus. "rmuosvss."

onl set a number n‘: Igi-Trisiilnlt. to Iausic. but wrote u", m- three poems herself. This one was favorably commented on by 1°!" in his letter of May ilith. 191B "Ti" w" “cum... w" written in April. i918- >

The days are heavy and 1N hill" l"

long; hfy boy. now 8'41"" m i” ' mu‘ h tie lsd once more-

Ion’ i Ii i “m” °' h m‘ ' for him beside the

And dreaming. Wli d"; him la my ThJTlh-ts feel the woo of Wat's alarms. _ Before bis livl "mid 1m" of baby IRWIN".

door. | gee him coming.

words to

ms. m; syss so full

At his own request be wss trsus- l ts t and kin-y‘ u, “guy?” would look into my own. u u an svsry a sy """ i bl lovt "sum- would btotorout A" i ‘my m‘ m“ w" ' eidsst d “ab”? tnélibﬂln" u. m ‘N. ed f aug — oss urn. . ; n or bun": c,‘ m. 0.. dsy bsfors s sa ‘n s .s - s s s . The sssts look in his sill "l lafsntils ssssiysis. h“

Tkrousk ‘my seer Neill-W“ '°' Not as melt-ass isaatpirui llﬂ sdisu. -

hast‘ was» jatsrr. be! y"! I'll 0; alas thy dsssbtlvt s“. who . y“ ~s I ,_ > ‘ I ot martyrdom iolvshll

‘MT; a...‘ lips to smils tint bids s Itosa. '

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xaxssnts ram A SPY

of the Archives of the Busuian lie» voiutlon." Jfjiassoiedow was arrested shortly after the battle“ and triad by court- uiartisl at Warsaw. The court cun- sisted of two general staff oillcers and one regimental ofilcer . No one appeared either for the da- feuce or the prosecution. The witness- es were heard. Judgment pronounced. and the sentence carried out ia two hours. He was. in the ﬁrst place. charged with having betrayed to the Germans the strength and positions of the iiussians on the llemhowa-Budlt sec- tion of the front. As a general staff oﬂlcer. he knew all about thcsc. to the most. minuterle- tail. The chief witucas declared that iljassojctltrw canto to that part of thc. front one day and made full inquiries regarding the actual position in the front line. This completed his knowledge of the situation of the Russian nrlny. In the marshy region over which the battle was fought some days later there were big gaps in the front. and Mjassojedow. it is declared. simply rode through one of these to the (ler- man lines. gave his information “ac- cording to plan." and rude hack again. 0n this charge he was found guilty. and sentenced to degradation and death. > A second charge was a curious one; it was alleged that he took two torra cotts statuettes from a_ house from which the inhabitants had lied an the itpprnach of the armies. regarded this as "plundering under arms." and on that charge he was sentenced to death. A third charge was not at all clear lt concerned the coionefs visit to the llombowu-lluda front. He was arrest- ed on his return. nd his answers to ruestioas put to bk: at once are said to have been confused. The prssldent_of the court-martial ordered that the prisoner was to be banged It once. ' The chief witness declares that half an hour utter leaving the court hc psssed one of the large cafes of Wur-

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EN and women who know that thorough cleanliness is the ﬁrst great step to bodily health use .Fairy Soap. They know it to he soap in its purest form. And they enjoy the invig- orated feeling which follows its use.

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