isa-normaladvance-1914-00191

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE191Cxcfjange ColumnTHERE is a certain element in the.papers edited by our own and other schools, which, in the language of the high school Soph¬ omore is conspicuous by its absence. We re¬ fer to the element of poetry. Poetry, either selected from standard authors or contributed by the supporters of the various papers, is. so rare as to be almost startling when it does ap¬ pear. A few specimen verses from this months exchanges may serve as a stimulus to some of our own readers which, combined with the gen¬ eral human tendency to lisp in numbers when spring puts grim winter to rout, will, perhaps, produce such a harvest of poetry as will fill the heart of our editor with joy and the minds of all others with despair.The first blossom in our nose-gay of verse we respectfully submit to Miss Winifred Ray and her enthusiastic supporters in the cause of equal suffrage. It is taken from the cover of the Taylor University Echo and is attributed by them to Berton Braley, in Colliers Weekly.UNSEXED.It doesnt unsex her to toil in a factory, Minding the looms from the dawn to the night  To deal with a schoolful of children refractoryDoesnt unsex her in any ones sight  Work in a store—where her back aches in¬ humanly—Doesnt unsex her at all you will note, But think how exceedingly rough and un¬ womanly Woman would be if she happened to vote!To sweat in a laundry thats torrid and tor- riderDoesnt subtract from her womanly charm  And scrubbing the flags in an echoing corridorDoesnt unsex her—so where is the harm ? It doesnt unsex her to nurse us with bravery,Loosing deaths hand from its grip on the throat But ah! how the voices grow quivery quavery, Wailing: Alas, twill unsex her to vote!Shes feminine still when she juggles the crock¬ ery,Bringing you blithely the orders you give  Toil in a sweatshop, where life is a mockery,Just for the pittance on which she can live— That doesnt seem to unsex her a particle,Labor is noble—so somebody wrote— But ballots are known as a dangerous article,Womans unsexed if you give her the vote!It isnt much on poetry, but the sentiment—! There are two other poems in the same paper, both too long to quote, but which we recom¬ mend to our readers.If we may judge by the verse which comes to our notice through the exchanges we should say that the great tendency of modern poetry is to reflect modern sociological and economic problems. (N. B.—This is strictly original with us. Prof. Curry has never used it in any of his lectures.) Perhaps the future of poetry is not to be found, as Mr. Noyes said, in a re¬ turn to the childlike faith in the power of re¬ ligion, of love, and of beauty, but in an ad¬ vance to the new questions of practical, hygienic life. Our first quotation dealt with suffrage. Our second, taken from the Indianapolis Medi¬ cal Journal which in turn credits it to the New York Sun, is founded on eugenics—students from Wisconsin please copy.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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