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Dad respected nature and loved new gadgets.
As his belongings were brought out in the open, out from the basement trunks and cigar boxes, I felt, as I often do, his very strong spirit.
He saved cartoons from the early 1900's. He cut them out neatly, flattened them and kept many in small stacks. In the middle of one of these stacks of cartoons was a small folded paper from a magazine. I removed my blue protective "basement cleaning gloves" and carefully unfolded the paper.
On one side was a small part of an ad from Dillingham Manufacturing Co. Established in 1857, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Words "Sturdy, safe, convenient" were printed under a child's pencil scribbling. On the other side was a poem, that Dad, no doubt enjoyed enough to keep in his neat little stack of cartoons. The Mag must have been Life, because the name "Life" was printed where the author's name is usually printed. So the author was probably one of Life Magazine's editors, not sure. In any case he or she would be delighted with our present digital world and delighted to know that there are so many people concerned about cutting down trees down today.
Here is the poem that was so neatly folded in with Dad's collection:
"Most Magazines are Made of Wood"
See the forest on these hills,
Destined for the paper-mills,
Pause amid these woodland scenes --
Here are future magazines.
There a sturdy giant falls:
That will be the new McCall's.
...
See that pine against the sky?
That is Harper's for July,
See that hemlock in the canyon?
That's the Women's Home Companion.
-- There's a fellow cutting spruce:
Let us ask him, for whose use.
What! It's for the Mercury?
Woodman, woodman, spare that tree!
--- Life
Dad respected nature and loved new gadgets.
As his belongings were brought out in the open, out from the basement trunks and cigar boxes, I felt, as I often do, his very strong spirit.
He saved cartoons from the early 1900's. He cut them out neatly, flattened them and kept many in small stacks. In the middle of one of these stacks of cartoons was a small folded paper from a magazine. I removed my blue protective "basement cleaning gloves" and carefully unfolded the paper.
On one side was a small part of an ad from Dillingham Manufacturing Co. Established in 1857, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Words "Sturdy, safe, convenient" were printed under a child's pencil scribbling. On the other side was a poem, that Dad, no doubt enjoyed enough to keep in his neat little stack of cartoons. The Mag must have been Life, because the name "Life" was printed where the author's name is usually printed. So the author was probably one of Life Magazine's editors, not sure. In any case he or she would be delighted with our present digital world and delighted to know that there are so many people concerned about cutting down trees down today.
Here is the poem that was so neatly folded in with Dad's collection:
"Most Magazines are Made of Wood"
See the forest on these hills,
Destined for the paper-mills,
Pause amid these woodland scenes --
Here are future magazines.
There a sturdy giant falls:
That will be the new McCall's.
...
See that pine against the sky?
That is Harper's for July,
See that hemlock in the canyon?
That's the Women's Home Companion.
-- There's a fellow cutting spruce:
Let us ask him, for whose use.
What! It's for the Mercury?
Woodman, woodman, spare that tree!
--- Life
