You Are Old, Father William is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. Carroll's parody "undermines the pious didacticism of Southey's original and gives Father William an eccentric vitality that rebounds upon his idiot questioner". Martin Gardner calls it "one of the undisputed masterpieces of nonsense verse". Since then, it has been parodied further, including more than 20 versions by 1886 a version by Charles Larcom Graves, a writer for "Punch" in 1889, and "You are young, Kaiser William". In the Walt Disney animated film "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) the first stanza of the poem is recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum as a
Sarah Logan Wister Starr young woman, Sarah was dignified and proper and "held high the banner of family morality." She was seen as the opposite of wild and unpredictable Elizabeth. In 1901, 28-year-old Sarah married James Starr, a mining official also descended from James Logan. Starr, an 1891 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who also earned a degree in Mining Engineering the following year from Towne Scientific School, was known for his collection of Chinese stamps. Mary Meigs, Sarah’s niece, describes Sarah’s and Elizabeth’s choices in husbands: “They selected for husbands, businessmen who were as much alike as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Their names