Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-01
BOYS, GREEN APPLES AND HENS

leather penetrating mixture of SNOW, water
and mud, known by the name of ''slush,
green apples have the greatest fascination fol
boys. Also, for girls. Also green goose
berries, (Which the women folk persist in
calling goosebriz) also carrots. But green
apples have the first rank in the affections OF
boyhOod. This is so general as to suggest the
necessity of bringing boys (and girls) within
reach of those early and knurly fruits; which
premise being admitted, fetches us up against
the consequent theorem that the summer
lake is as indispensable an incident to a we'll
,egulated boyhood land girlhood) as measles
and the seven-year misfortune Green goose
berries are more properly classified among the
temptations of very tender childhood ere yet
the knowledge, 50 dear to the heart of all
schoolboys (and girls, of the pleasant sin of
stealing green apples has dawned upon the
falow and susceptible mind. Carrots, as they
grow afeld, waving their green and feathery
tops in the summer sun, and all crisp and
yellow to the touch and taste, are never a
temptation when harvested. Then they be-
come fodder. As they stand with their long
slim roots in the soft earth they are thing
to be stolen, to be washed in the horse
trough or wiped on trowser- leg and crunched,
with only such teeth as boy has to crunch
with, by the roadside, or, furtively, in shaded
corners under the friendly hiding of the
farmers fence. 1t takes good deal of train
ing in the mystery of French soups to teach
the adult American the edibility of carrot
in any other shape or condition than the one
we have limited at. And even then, the yell
low disks are more matter of form and or
namentation than of actual nutriment. But
the apple is in danger from its natural enemy,
the boy Tor the girD, from the time of its at
tanning the size of flbert until it is put in
barrel or converted into cider or other phe-
nomena of pOmolOgy. Possibly, probably,
indeed, this depraved taste for green apples
is the self -assertion of The Old Adam in man
kinds earliest estate. We are not informed
by any explicitness of statement what kind of
an apple it was that our gentle mother Eve
plucked and gave to her spouse, much less
are we told of the age and relative ripeness
of the Pomum Adami. 1t being their first
acquaintance with that fruit, it Is not i'm
possible that Eve may have plucked a green |
one; and who knows but it was souri, Certainly |
it was a Seeding, or, at all events, the prob
abilities point i'll that direction; for why |
should Adam have grated a tree before hav
ing made himself acquainted with the flavor
of the frHit! We suspect when he came to
reflect, however, that it was large yellow
Pun'kin Sweet and that it was too ripe and
luscious to be resisted. Else, how could as
tasteful and judicious a person as Gran ma
must have been, been tempted to forfeit Par
adise by helping herself thereto. Moreover,
we do not believe it to have been a bit smaller
than the noble Pound Apple of modern nurs-
cries We predict a very prosperous and
abundant year to our farmers gardeners and
horticulturists. Four or five years back we
had Just such springtime as this-change-
able, wet and chilly. When the
warm weather did set in, every growing thing
was so far along and so vigorous that its ma
turity was fully assured, and when the har
vest came it was very bountiful. Somehow
we feel sense of confidence in the near fu-
ture We believe in "Ophir. We have an
indescribable sort of notion-like unto a
presentment or a gift of prophecy-that that
famous mine is going to set the COmstock on
its feet again. And revival along the line
of that Incompatible lode will put courage in
our hearts, insure us a market (not so much
of stocks as for our products), and set de-
spondent humanity to smiling again With
Politics to the right of US and Politics to the
left of us, it is pleasant to contemplate some
thing like wide and general prosperity in
the near futuee .. We must confess that
we didn't use to have much faith in the out
come of the Little Girls Band. But their '
performing on Memorial Day dispelled all |
doubts. To be sure the airs were simple
but the time and tone were melodious and c
pure. We predict something very gratifying I
in the future of these young musicians. .....
June breaks in upon us like unto humid and
threatening Christmas-tide more than like the
opening chorus of the summer months.
Mother Symptoms fell prophetic incidents are
not vet done of their accumulating. Our :
world is still plunging on and on through y
space, fetching itself nearer to the final catas-
trophe But it is dreadful cold Perhaps the
world had better come to an end if it cannot