{"id":8468,"date":"2022-09-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:00:00","slug":"a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1914-09-29\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, September 29, 1914<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>My grandsire is a husky chap; his age is eighty-five.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He has a cheery smile and thinks it\u2019s good to be alive.<br\/>He does not claim perfection. When the New Year comes again<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He makes his resolutions, just the same as other men.<br\/>He seemed to start life\u2019s journey on unfavorable terms.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His family did not know a thing about these wicked germs.<br\/>They let him travel barefoot and he ate green fruit by stealth.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I very often wonder how my grandsire kept his health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He ate his bread and marmalade and didn\u2019t care a straw<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;About the labels which are recommended by the law.<br\/>And when a cut or bruise unto his careless lot befell,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He tied a rag around it and then left it to get well.<br\/>He tried to love his neighbor and he wasn\u2019t wild for pelf.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He did the best he could and then forgot about himself.<br\/>He faced the outdoor life without the luxuries of wealth.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a mystery how my good old grandsire kept his health!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, September 29, 1914. By Philander Johnson. My grandsire is a husky chap; his age is eighty-five.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He has a cheery smile and thinks it\u2019s good to be alive.He does not claim perfection. When the New Year comes again&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He makes his resolutions, just the same as other men.He seemed to start life\u2019s journey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}