Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1917 — PENS PRIZE POEM IN WILDS [ARTICLE]

PENS PRIZE POEM IN WILDS

Miss Ethelwyn Dlthridge Is Given ■ Award for Sixteen Lines Written in Labrador. • New York—While In the wilds of Labrador several summers ago, Miss Ethelwyn Dlthridge, a teacher of English in the Bushwick high school. Brooklyn, had a poetic inspiration. She sat down before a fire In the Gsenfell mission there and wrote 16 lines. The short poem was named, “As Thou Wilt. 1 ’ • The poem expressed kindly thoughts’ toward children. The judges it} a contest recently held under the auspices of the St. Louis Art league picked the poem from 50Q as the best literary effort of the season and gave to Its author the first prize. T?he prize was z a check for SIOO, which Miss Dithridge received at her home Ln Hol 1 is, L. I. _g—