, 1870-03-06
THE WORLD Of AMUSEMENT,
Spring.
a Short BucoIio Essay.
Lent
Reflections on the Season.

Reflections on tho Season.
Amusements.
At Home and Abroad.
CHICAGO. Msscah
7o tAe Editor u 1As Chieeqo 1risun4:
have you stopped to think that Spring Is here
Al vftte TO you tha eky Ia full Of noaun1
clouds, giving u alternate aeAms Of sunahtns md
olaplnts Of shadow. and me oontzassa of blue
and wh!te, precisely a. Fate weares tho web OF
Our lives. Tue ground II coyered with trean.
fallen anow, which witt ditappear before night,
Ihe Wind hloNn chlllngly Ac1osa The Kttes, b.ue
nEe, aled With noatt1G Ice, and showing 4 dull
while bank on III eastern rim. There are fev
Ley nskea Of srow In the air. tne st1ax8ters nom
me fea1guard OF the grand army Of Winter, which
seem 10 hetsste ahons sotliug the,r uh!ta purity
oy contact with the muddy earth. And yet thero
ale indications OF Spring everJwhsret Down uu-
der the anow, aud In the frozen earth, tharo Ia
strange tustllng.~ Millions Of little ge1ms are str.
ring uneasuy. There Is lie III tho great grave of
Nature, and II Jou ara dlliSent watcher At the
sepuichfe, Jou Will Bee tbs atone rolled Away and
the great miracle OF tile in death will ouce more
take place before you. And In that little grave Of
your OWL. Whete yoor darling aeeps, Life Is stu11ug
and Nlli Eoou manifest itlelf IN the green ahoots
Of grass, and tn the Msy-weeds and ylolets open
Ing tne4 ltlie white and blue eyes, telling Joa IN
thelr te3n:iful noNef-lRrgusge Of that eternal
spring morning, when Jour darling shall rise from
her lorg sleep chad In beauty exceeding that OF
the hower1. There are Indications OF n1dl On the
!uacs ana AeftrEaE, and on every Sturdy t,ee.l1mb
and On eTery curvtDg v1ue-hrarch, the great god
Pah Il prcrsr1r2 10 unspl uttla budgets OF green
which sna!l hJ.a1d-hJ adnfn the leafJ June. The
evetgEeers. which have never once blauchet IN
'hetr 1org contest With the winter storms are put
uEe On nav suis Of areeu. And now, II your ear
u only sensitive enough and you Hlten keanly, yoa
Will he1r In the fat.on dntauce the whole al full
Of the a12on Of blros coming up thls way from
The warm soutt. Do you not hesr the miuprs Of
the olue-birds. the twitter1rgs Of awaEox1, the
chtrpirga Ct robins, the roulades Of the or!olee
TIE morotone bans clefs OF Crows, and tho bra
vnras Of tie hl1e.ja5s7 Do you not hear the mul.
thnd!nous nuttefiuR Of wlugp. and do you not
hear the rnsh Of the EepnJra a Ihey
t1aI theiF wtuEg OVER the gardens, tpan-
Cling them with color87 Do you not observe that
ihe air Ia fnl Ct AHeet psopheciea Of the perfume
OF thofe dtat'bosn dar1ln2s Of sprng, the yloletz
AID daslez, and that It Is heavy With The I'm.
On that n1st spring morning took my Ivy,
which CAME all the way from that sacred grzye Of
Scott, and held II at the opeu window rhas II
night catch the irst breath Of the nHbt spring It
hiss ever known IN these climes Since It lett Sco.-
lard From that morning to this It has been put.
ting cut the Rlcsiieat little leaves you ever kaw-
Of for the Lazy Of BranksoIeo one Tor the fair Alb
bets Ct st. Huda. one for Ellen OF the Lake, one
tor Matilda, he,r Of Rokebgx Knight and one for
EDITH Of the ls1es. I have also notced that ny
ives ard ferns and Eernuiuma and calIa9, climbing
from pots and Dropping from baskets, In ny vim
dows along Wabash aVeDne, beRtn to assuue
brighter greer and pr1nk themselves up In rather
stately manner, es II they, too, knew that spring
had come, md that It was tme to do0 thet winter
| Bulp.
Do you know that I sometimes plty these
houfc lower. which grow up IN an artificial
/ atmosphere, never faured by tho breezes Of
heaven, never xate1ed bY the bNmy spring
showers md o1ozous summer 1nny, never e1-
posed to the temptations OF those coquettes, tue
| butterflies, and those little v1Ili1n1, tho bees;
never catching star In the dew on thes
| ptlnla They always scem 70 me To have certAln
sta stately good aoc:etJ air. and to be lacking in
the grace and freedom Of ther outdoor ssters. 1t
! Ecema a. II they had been Infected With some Ct
| the conEentlonzllttes Of the dsawtn2.rcou. and
had caught The studied n1nnera Of the Ruetf6
| who have bru1hed By them IN rout and so1ee. It
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