The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-06-08
Burlington Hawkeye.l
SeasOnable TAX.
It's the mary, mary mon h or May.

Is tns mary mary mOn OF May.
We got the pronunciation when we
were at school; merry was called
merry in any other connection. but
no one ever heard it called anything
but mary in a school girls compost
itOn on May.
This Is the month when YOU set the
house plants out doors. How clsdIy
the poor things drink in the warm
sunshine and inhsIe the mellow air,
and look up gratefully into the eyes Of
the woman, who. with her husbands
last summers straw has on her head,
and garden rake in her band, bends
tendeTly over the budding plants.
And how the plants snuggle up TO
each other that night when smiling
May puts on her ulster and draws
the cape over her head and throws in
line Of lot whisky, while a fDrtv-
horse power frost, with a breath like
an iceberg, goes waltzing around over
the fair face Of nature, smelling the
beautiful house plants. And the
next morning
Did you ever see q woman in a cali
co wrapper, aud her hair up in crimp-
ing pins, sit down on a wbeelbRrrow
aud cry over a large assortment of
house plants that h%d been out all
night without their listers? I? Her Un-
Gle GsOrge's funeral wasn't eireum-
stance.
You take down the sitting room
stove this month, also, and then
spend all your May evenings in tue
kitchen, and doctor cold in your
head until the middle Of June, about
which time it is driven AWAY. by the
bay fever, which stays with You until
November brings q hacking cough to
take its place,
This is the month when The ebii-
dreD go out into the woods after wild
flowers, and break the best set of
white handled knives by taking three
of them out to dig flowers with and
losing them in the woods. Thew also
leave in the woods the little tin buck
ct, one of the best goblets, an Old-fash-
iOned pie plate that had been in the
family thirty-eight years, the oldest
girl leaves her botany, the youngest
10y eats lot of wild mushrooms.
and has to be turned wrOngside out to
save his life, the Oldest boy climbs a
shellbsrk hickory tree aud ia eense-
quence has to stay in the woods until
after dark aud then clme ambIing
home sideways. They all catch terrific
colds and bring home somewhere less
than two bushels of wild flowers.
which die the moment they are put
in the ground and never revive
again.
Ia this month tree peddler comes
around and talks you To death, and
sells you a plum tree that bears frGit so
bitter that it poisons every eureuliO
that tastes il, and some cherry trees
that send up $50 sprouts tn the square
inch and will lift the house off its
foundations in two years growtb, and
come apple trees that neither sprout,
blossom nor bear fruit, and some
blackberry bushes that spread all over
8 ten-aere lot the first season, and
some gOOseberry bushes that have
thOrns on foot long and never have
anything else, and some peaches that
break out in bloom from the ground
to the top Of the tOpmost branch in
five days after they sre put in the
ground, and die as dead as a flint the
sixth day, and q climbing rose tree
that turns out to be Wild ivy and
poisOns every soul about the house be-
fore the summer il over. Wherefore
we call this the.merry month OF May.