New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-28
LET Us WAIT FOR TIE DAYDELION.

1t has been Enthusiastically a sour, disagree
able winter-a winter that has blinded us with
SHOWS, drenched us with rains, and bufieted us
with Billiards almost beyond endurance So
much must be admitted at the outset. The
generality of mankind in general at odds
among themselves and holding an infinite
variety Of views upon all other subjects, are OF
one mind concerning the weather OF the winter
season whose retiring wheels are just now
singing its slush in our faces. 1t has been ex-
ecrabe beyond description. Even the Demo
cratic party are agreed upon this point. But
we are passing out-thank Heaven-frOm under
the leaden skies, from the pelting of pitiless
storms, and the sipperincss of slushy slops into
sunshine, cheerfulness, bright colOrs sweet
odors and good walking. BY so much as the
winter has been unusually weaTisOme and try
ing to health and patience will the change be
the more welcome. And as all mankind have
been making the same remark with mOnOtOnous
regularity for the past three months, there is
danger that with change in the weather they
will switch off with a common impulse in the OPP
posite direction and all break out with the same
observation.
Now what we have to say in this regard
is. simply, let us not do it, Let us take
such weather as the gods provide and not
make any fuss about it, And above all, let
the press of the country rise equal to the occa-
sion and superior to itself and sternly refuse
though the up-sprngiDg grass, the swelling
buds the songs of birds, the tinkling music OF
the loosened brooks and all the sights and
sounds of reviving nature tempt and inyite-let
the press of the country rigidly repress the
tendency-natural as ain, and old as the world
to ring in the crOcus. There is reason to
fear that on account Of the severity of the win
ter that has passed and the satisfaction which
WIN arise from a change, there will be rather
more crOcus than usual in our spring literature
and there is likewise danger that it will be
dragged up by the roots and transplanted pre-
maturely. There is no manner OF doubt that In
hundreds of newspaper offices able writers have
been watching an opportunity for several days
TO pounce upon the crOcus for half column or
more of bloom and fragrance. But why not
let up on the crOcus9 just for one year we can
afford to let the spring come in without any
flutter of crocus ahead Of 1t. Let us give the
crocus a rest for one season and load our poetry
and our beautiful thoughts little later on the
fearful horse-radish or the brOad-shouldered
uaDuellOn,
We speak now to the sensible and reasonable
writers on newspapers, not to magazine writers
or poets To the hopper of these latter come all
things early and late as their proper grist in
spring the fragrance of trailing arbutus or ripper
odor of the early leek the blush Of rose and blue
of violet and orchards bursting into bloOmJ
the hands breadth of collie that Turks in the
cucumber vines the quail on toast forcshadowed
dimly by the twitterng birds the.promise of
egg-nogg in the reddenng crests of barnyard
fowls i'm autumn there's the yellow of golden
rod and fiery glow of sumach the loaded wains
and bursting barns the luscious ripeness of
the twilghts the merrymakings of the
lengthening nights; the flutter of falling
leaves the flights of birds; the gories of harvest
moons, and all the songs that are sung and ser
mons preached from the plump fulness of the
rounded year. Let them have all these, and let
them for the next fortnight have their will OF
the crocus. True, wenewspaper men can, IL we
choose, wash all the color and fragrance out of
it before the poets and magazine people can get
a whack at it but let us not do it. What say
We, brethren of the press Let lis hold OIL our
regular spring articles-wait for the dandellon
and give the crOcus rest.