{"id":8380,"date":"2022-07-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2022-07-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T05:00:00","slug":"the-alimony-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-alimony-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alimony Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-07-24\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, July 24, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, smiling lady, your jewels flash,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your furs are rich and your eyes are bright,<br\/>With a lavish hand you are spending cash,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You know no want and your heart is light;<br\/>You look so glad and you seem so free<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From the cares that worrying people know<br\/>That I wonder, seeing your ecstasy,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who was paying your bills a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps he lingers alone somewhere,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or another may bring him gladness now;<br\/>The lines that are drawn by the hand of Care<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May be deeply etched in his aching brow;<br\/>Remorse may gnaw at his lonely heart,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or another may hear him whisper low;<br\/>But you, made up with consummate art\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who was paying your bills a year ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>You do not wail o\u2019er the cost of things,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whatever your fancy craves you take;<br\/>Your hands are laden with flashing rings<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And your fingers never from toiling ache;<br\/>You give no thought to the ones who shrink<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where a chill creeps in when the mad winds blow;<br\/>Your furs are soft and your cheeks are pink;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who was paying your bills a year ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, lady fair, in another year<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You may wonder how, in your careless pride<br\/>You forgot to pause and declined to hear<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The helpless who in their sadness cried;<br\/>You may sit alone where the light is dim<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And mourn the fate that has brought you low,<br\/>As you think sometimes with a pang of him<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who was paying your bills a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, July 24, 1914. By Henry Howland. Oh, smiling lady, your jewels flash,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your furs are rich and your eyes are bright,With a lavish hand you are spending cash,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You know no want and your heart is light;You look so glad and you seem so free&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From the cares that worrying people knowThat I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","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=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}