A fly swatter that includes a flat pad for striking directly against a fly, and the pad being attached to an extendable handle so to permit reaching a fly on a.
Like much of his verse, it has the searching quality. The same stern logic that speaks through his poem “An American” that speaks through his “Song of the English” and through his “Recessional,” speaks through this, “The White Man’s Burden: ”Take up the White Man’s Burden —Ye dare not stoop to less —Nor call too loud on Freedom. To cloak your weariness. By all ye will or whisper,By all ye leave or do,The silent, sullen peoples. Shall weigh your God and you. Through all this time of uncertainty, this time in which the American people apparently are halting in their course, there is one great characteristic element in the situation which cannot be explained away, and which, as the poet seems to reveal with prophetic insight, is not going to be dodged, unless to our everlasting degradation, and that is the responsibility which has been thrust upon us.
It has the double quality. It is not something we sought. It is something that sought us. For years we had seen the suffering of a helpless people at our very doors until we could almost arraign ourselves for cruel indifference. Finally, with as pure a motive as ever a nation undertook anything, we attempted to relieve that suffering.“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” we were just where we find ourselves today. We had crushed the remnant of Spain’s authority in the Philippines, driven her from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Never, we believe, has history recorded an instance in which a nation was confronted with such responsibility so clearly without premeditation, or intention of its own, as in this instance.
The “swat the fly” movement is also productive of general good. 1916, 1921, Berton Braley, Poetry, Public Health. To swat the pesky fly at sight. Screen the baby, swat the fly References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date. 1916 1,237,346 Limoges Aug. 1916: Homer L Boyle: Toy-pistol fly-swatter. Warren (January 28, 1892 – February 16, 1916) married. Epidemics & Diseases Search this Guide Search. Swat the Fly : Polio in the Northeastern United States, 1916.
Beatrice White poses with her fly traps in the summer of 1912 after winning the 'Swat the Fly' contest sponsored by the Toronto Daily Star and the city's medical. SCREEN THE BABY, SWAT THE FLY: POLIO IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, 1916 (EPIDEMICS, URBAN) NAOMI ROGERS, University of Pennsylvania. Add a Plot » Director: Willie Hopkins. Title: Swat the Fly (1916) 6.6 /10. Want to share IMDb's. When you swat a fly which type of neuron stimulates your arm to move.
With no desire to say a word for expansion or against expansion, we ask American manhood, we ask the higher self of this land, what its full duty in the matter is. The poet asks it with searching inquiry: Take up the White Man’s burden! Have done with childish days —The lightly proffered laurel,The easy ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood. Through all the thankless years,Cold, edged with dear- bought wisdom,The judgment of your peers. Indianapolis News. The Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Arizona) Feb 1. THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN.(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)Take up the white man’s burden.
Lift up the white man, too,He has dallied with the booze can. And a small bottle or two.
He has fallen down by the wayside; Far away from his own abode; It seems that the white man’s burden. Is a very unwieldy load. Take up the white man’s burden. And help the poor chap to stand,Once he possessed his senses. And had a pull in the land; Once he was upright and sober,Was able to talk and to think,But the war with the Filipinos. Has driven the white man to drink. Take up the white man’s burden.
And bear it away to a cell,? Henderson, tell us how you really feel: OUR “WHITE MAN’S BURDEN.”.
He assimilated too much liquid refreshment and was gently escorted to the city bastile although the police declare he felt younger than ever. According to the declaration of Chief Hillhouse, this is the first time Captain Jones, a redman, native of Nevada, has ever been “pinched” or even known to take a drink. He is known about the city because of his appearance with his wife on the streets dispensing pictures to those who will buy. At the age of 1. 10 which he gave at headquarters, his qualities of absorption seem unimpaired although he was found slightly wanting when it came to carrying the white man’s burden. Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) Nov 1.
I think it could be said that we stepped up and took on that burden and then some: “The White Man’s Burden.”Rudyard Kipling recently told an American visitor in London that when he wrote “The White Man’s Burden” he had America in mind, not Great Britain. America’s isolation has now ceased. She is responsible with the other nations who helped whip Germany for the orderly and safe conduct of the world.
She must take upon her own shoulders a large share of the burden. If this means additional privileges it means also vastly augmented responsibilities. Upon England and America together rests the chief duty of a decent place in which to live and work.— Lothrop Stoddard in the World’s Work. The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Jul 3, 1.
The most painful (and never ending) of the burdens: THE WHITE MAN’S BURDENTaxes. More taxes. And some more taxes. The Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) Sep 2.