Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-05-24
Now

Now, fields are being plowed, and
early potatoes planted, and windows
are left open in the middle of the day,
and people 80 out i'm slippers to watch
the gardeners progress, and coughs
abound, and the doctors are busy.
Now, Chaucer is read, and Milton,s
L'Allegro, and more poetry than ever
is sent to the magazines and newspa-
pers. Now, the fat, sauey robins hop
about over the newly turned up ground,
and the blue birds glance from tree to
tree, and the wild bucks glide i'm pref
ty procession on the river, and the
crows squabble in the woods, and,
walking among the cedars yon send the
whirling crowds Of yellow wing-tipped
eeder birds flying before you at every
step. Now, the bird-fanciers thrive.
aud enthusiastic boys buy pigeons
pouters and n-tails-and the girls get
eanaries, and even mocking- birds find
credulous purchasers who foudly be-
Aeve they can sing. Now, the bard
ware shops take i'm their coal scuttles.
and door-mats, and skates, and shds,
and put out iefrigerators and bathing
tubs, and rakes, and hoes. Now,
strawberries grown in hot houses, with
the flavor of cold potatoes, appear at
the stylish restaurants, and are bought
by over-rich people at twenty five cents
apiece, and young women of a credu-
lbus turn of mind buy rose bushes i'm
the city market, full of buds, and be-
lieve they will open, and, the first
shad is sold for five dollars and goes to
the gridiron.- N@ TIIFY ~ /
Now, the dear female sex comes out
as one man in little round hats with
pigeon wings, and their brothers. jack
cts, and ychignons like orioles, nests,
and the tidiest, prettiest short dresses,
and the roses of June in their cheeks,
and the yiolets of May in their eyes,
and the gold of the sun himself i'm their
hair. Now and the milliners are going
to open, and new b0nnets are to be
bought, and, and organdies appear i'm
the windows, and the sun will dance
with JOY at the beauty of the new fash
ions, and the inventiveness of the
female mind will strike everybody for
the, thousandth time. Now, all the
boys and girls are flying kites, except
ing those who are playing marbles, and
Mr.. Van Tine is asked hundred times
aday, How much for them japanese
kites pr as the kites grin like demons
when the poor little shavers with ten
cents are told that the kites are forty.
Now, all the boys are dying for fish
hooks, end cord, and sinkers, and bob
beers, and the fish are uneasy in their
minds, which they wouldn't be if they
Knew anything about boys.
Now, plans are formed, and the win
ter is abused behind his back, and
good peach crop is anticipated, and the
papers are full of stories of the profit
people made last year off half acre of
strawberries and grapes. Now. rents
are raised, and house hunters are
aghast, and painters are busy, or pre-
tend, to. be, and carpenters have no time
for immediate calls, and servants in the
city are looking out for places in the
country, and hod carriers develop a
preternatural and unsupported talent
6eE gardening and the. care of horses
Now, spring has come, and winter
gone, and the heart is renewed, and life
is quickened, and under the blue sky
nothing seems so fit for the day as love
making, and all young things from
babies to goslings,N are, i'm season, and
the faces of the sick are sadder then
yesterday, and the sight of little lame
child makes the tears rush TO the ewes
and that death should be here i'm the
very bursting and fullness of life is
nore than ever q dread and mystery
The Nokion.