Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1917 — PINES FOR OLDTIME ORATORY [ARTICLE]

PINES FOR OLDTIME ORATORY

Writer Declares That Modern Speak* era Fall to Satisfy Our Long* Ing for Language. What has become of the old-fashion-ed orator, the old boy who made the well known welkin ring? Modern speakers don't satisfy our longing for language. We remember at least three orators of the old school. One of them, at a funeral oration, spoke of youth and age. Said be: “Springtime's brightest green must fade and pass away to be replaced by drear Decern* ber’s somber hues." Another, telling of a visit he had made to the place of his birth and boyhood, told of looking into a spring around which he had played as a child. He said: "When last I looked into its mirrored beauty I beheld the smiling face of a happy boy crowned with a mass of golden hair. Now I behold a broken old man, halting down the western hill of time, and on his brow there is the snow which no summer’s sun can ever melt” The third of our favorite orators said: “I have seen fragrant flowers In the hands of blushing beauty. I have gazed upon the loveliness of dew-kiss-ed violets rivaling with their modesty the majesty of lilies of the valley. I have seen gorgeous roses lending bril* Hance to sparkling eyes. But gentlemen, the most beautiful bouquet that ever burst into bloom before my enraptured eyes was—a royal flush.”"Dallas Pitchfork,