Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. [ARTICLE]

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.

We’ve read ot the atrocities from Turk’s op-| press! ve hand. And of the tribulations in Siberia’s dreaded land. And of ioqnisitdrial scenes in ages long since i past. When all the Christian world would hold- ft* breath and stand aghast. ; But o’er a torture worse than these we daily rapt and rave— It soon will drive us into the asylum or the grave; She causes us in agony of soul to„praoce the floor. That beautiful, condemnable piano girl next door. She’ll pound at "Rastus on Parade,” and at “Sweet Marie,” And howl of something that occurred beneath a bamboo tree. She’ll shriek of bow her golden hair was hanging down her back. Then hit poor old ”0, Promise Me” a harsh, discordant whack; Then without provocation jump on helpless “Daisy Dell,” The light will flicker as she yawps. “O. Kiss, but Never Tels. Then say she doesn’t want to play in onr yard any more. That young and pretty murderer of harmony m next door, She often makes a nervy shy at ’ Louisiana Lou,” ADd gambols on the fabled bank where once the wild thyme grew. Imylores Bill Bailv to come home in an impaasioned lay. Then wanders where the silvery Colorado wends its way. Then all coons look alike to her she tell us o’er and o’er. And spills a lot of song about the good- by at

the door; About her love across the sea She’ll often rip and tear— Her nearest neighbors all suspect her music drove him there. On Sunday when in pious mood she'll play "Sweet By-and-By," Ar,d caution worldiy men of sin to turn before they die. She'll shake the "Rock of Ages.” from circumference to core. And scream to toiling sailors to keep pulling for the shore. We often wish her safe at home up iu that better land, A harp of gold of smothered tone grasped in her shapely hand, There would her music-stricken soul foreever be at rest. And one less wave of care would roll across our troubled breast. —Denver Post.