New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 15

_——— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY ers. His most famous quatrain: ‘A Book of Verses underneath the Boush, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilder- BOOKSHOP YIELDS NEW OWAR VERSES - Volume Contains 185 Untrans- | 2o lated Rubaigat Quartrains word in holiday enjoyment through- Washington, D. C., July 12—An- | out, Moslem North Africa, the Near other book of verses to be read an- | Iiast and Persia—excepting the wine derneath the bough with a loaf of | which is still forbicden bread and a thermos bottle of—well, | “From Tripoli to Cairo to Bag- lemonade—may be the product of | dad to Teharan and Tashkent, the discovery in a Calcutta bookshap | 3,500 miles, 2 bough and the shade of an early volume of Omar Khay- | it gives are luxuries in a land of yam's Rubhiyat containing 13 eternal sun. Grass is even rarer than quatrains than Fitzgerald trans trees; no such things as an Amer- Only the volume in the Bodleiin | jcan or English lawn exists. So when libary at Oxford is older than the | a holiday comes the people leave newly found illustrated manuscript | the seclusion of their towns, wander Wwhich, according to news from In- | down to the bank of a stream where dia, bears the date 1 | there may be a few trees Toet to the West, ,\lauxcmmlcian 10 | ‘stap scattered on the Persia | Omiar writes, they rest and gossip. “Omar, the Tentmaker, fast in his Women Picnic in Cemeteries grave on which the peach petals blow at Nishapur continues to be, dpspite the gap of 900 years, P ia’s best ambassador to Englisis 4)('11;\'”15' countries,” says a bulletin ol the National Geographic Society from its headquarters in Washing- ton, D. C. “Yet he who sang: were Paradise supplies a thumbnail picture of what passes for a picnic and the last res wo- [men of the harem are sometimes permitted to go out once a week, an opportunity they scldom pass by, not so much to pay tribute to dead, as for an outing under tr | trees. Graveyards are ‘the favorite picnic grounds of the Near E: “Omar sings of ro: the hyacinths of the garden: the peach and the pear trees in bloom. The brushes of artists have addel scme-very definite ide about Persian gardens eler to Persia reports that a | he searched high ani low, he has yet to find a Persian garden. On that dry plateau there is no such thing as a garden in the American or Eng- h sense A garden to a Persian is a grove of trees kept alive by irrigation litches that receive precious water from s creek fed by mountain snows. It may contain fountain the worse for wear, with brok- scattered about. A mud wa usually runs around the green oasis but, unlaes it is a town house g: den, the wall does not exclude the world. Indeed, in Persia, a garden outside the gates is practically public park open alike to the travel- er, the merchant and the sheph halt flock. - | ‘I sometimes think that never blows | s0 red | The Rose as where Caesar bled;® some buried as is little known as a poet in his owa country. Abul-'I-fat'’h Omar son of Ibrahim the Tentmaker of Nisha- pur, for such was his name, holds in Persia some modest fame as a math- ematician, an ancient wise man, who about the time William ihe |! Conqueror was conquering England, assisted in g the Persian cal- endar. But Omar, poet! We have far better poets than he, the say. The We Yorl though re as for his ac- Persians weve are to this day cism which Omar, who was a doubter and | w like a saucer. High mountains rim it. Close to the rim rise the principal cities hugging the moun because of their depend- ence on the highlands for water. The center isan upland deser ad heart of Persia.’ Crossing Persia re- the so to a n traveler any of green he comes upon toward end of h jou v seems a vi- rden of un- and » scientists, flouted is no accident A scientist and been found at modern scienti and question mar ed beliefs as skillfully us workers toss equations and graphs, : e de desert, he sion of parall exalted in postry.” FOR CALENDAR CHANGE Rochester, N. Y.—Twenty-two na- tions now in readiness to par- ticipate in international discus- sion ndar simplification to be held at Geneva at a meeting of the gzue of nations next year. The i United States, Argen- Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Ivado ‘Ah, make may Before are the We 100 into the Dust desce > teachers insisted on obedi- order against g liquor. Or original home g wine, wrot of the grape, and lovi caragua, uras, Panama, Cuba France, Italy, Hol and Hungary *Ah, my beloved, clears Today of past regret and fill the cup thyt future BOYS' MAKEUP London—Just what made of has b Arthur Yapp, » M ‘Omar K yam's aga the tide of opinion sia of his day and still run a the tide. He was h ic; verses are still heretical. So Persia that Omar as a little boys are d by Sir he council. The up Mischiof, 5 per cent; per ce courage, 10 per | cent; determination, 19 per ceat; love of truth, 10 per cent; fear of what others may think, 10 per cent; self-will, and se per cent; push and go. aphy, the cli- | products, and be found in- which have r to English rnad—‘ e e e ——————— ‘Ean You Save! That’s the real question. A start here at this Mutual Savings Bank is the first step— why not make it this week!? We pay 5% interest. 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