{"id":7995,"date":"2022-03-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2022-03-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T06:00:00","slug":"still-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/still-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Newark Evening Star, March 5, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Edgar A. Guest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitty never had no use for men,
    Seemed to us she\u2019d rather read an\u2019 sew;
None of us could ever point to when
    She had ever entertained a beau.
Every time a feller came to call,
    Kitty never had a word to say,
Never even showed him to the hall
    When at 10 o\u2019clock he went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim, we used to think, was jes\u2019 as queer,
    Women used to scare him to a chill;
When the girls come visitin\u2019 us here
    He jes\u2019 spent the evenin\u2019 sittin\u2019 still.
\u201cWomen ain\u2019t fer me,\u201d he used to say,
    \u201cI can\u2019t get accustomed to their ways,\u201d
Then he\u2019d grab his hat an\u2019 run away
    Jes\u2019 as though his mind was in a daze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim an\u2019 Kitty scarcely ever spoke,
    Least we never saw \u2018em, if they did;
Never heard \u2018em ever pass a joke.
    Much beneath still waters, though, is hid.
Both of \u2018em lived on the farm for years,
    Never once we saw \u2018em arm in arm;
But you shouldn\u2019t judge from what appears,
    Leastwise if you\u2019re livin\u2019 on a farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitty disappeared one mornin\u2019 bright,
    All that day we looked in vain for Jim;
But they both came back again at night,
    Kitty, smiling, hand in hand with him.
Seemed they both had tired of single life,
    So she said, while brushing back the tears,
Parson Brown had made \u2018em man an\u2019 wife,
    An\u2019 they\u2019d been engaged for twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, March 5, 1914. By Edgar A. Guest. Kitty never had no use for men,    Seemed to us she\u2019d rather read an\u2019 sew;None of us could ever point to when    She had ever entertained a beau.Every time a feller came to call,    Kitty never had a word to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}