The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-18

These open-lot scarecrows are masterpieces
of art and on y the most experienced scare
crow sculptors dare set their figures out
where every body can look at them. Not
only do they dress well, but their members
are skilfuuy articulated, 50 that they can
toss and fling their arms about in the wild
wind from the mountains. Many persons
travelling on the railroads past a group Of
articulated scarecrOws when the wind was
high have been deIuded into supposing that
it was a gathering Of local Vermont poll
ticiaHs.
The Vermont scarecrow is the best dressed
in the world After ne gets through with a
suit of clothes, the farmer takes them for
himself. Usually he wears plug hat and
many of them carry umbrella to keep off
the rain and sun. He also IS the happiest
still-life figure in the world He never looks
for company When the farmer is not with
him looking out for his comfort, introducing
a little more straw into his bowels, splinter
ing his arms so that they will thrash the air
in a more spirited and arts tic style, or dTiv
ing his spinal column a little more deeply
and firmly into the soil, the crows always
come down from the hills to cheer him up
They perch themselves on his plug hat, crane
their heads under the brim into his earnest
thoughtful face and then look at each other
and grin and cackle. Were it not for the
scarecrows the life of Vermont crow would
be dull and dismal. As it is, they have a
CAV. rollickfng time with the scarecrows ali
summer but when the November storms
have knocked the scarecrow into his cooked
hat an flung him about the field, they sail
silently and di5consolatey away to the
south.
A crow evinces a good deal Of EN- otion
when his scarecrow friend hops down on the
ground As an artisan in the scarecrow-
making business of White River Junction
said few days ago: Grows can't seem TO
lest make out what the dumb things be, an
KNOWN crow as well as 1 do, and what
Gurus inquisitive cusSes they be, it's my
opinion that they'll hang around the state
O. Vermont till they find out. OF course l
make a good many scarecrOws each year,
an some OF 'em is COrkers fur style an gin
eral max up tut l don't mind tellin' you
that in my opinion Vermont will be chock
full o crows j.st so long as we cOntinner ter
Irvine a string o scarecrows round Their hull
state each spring ter tract EN-. don't say
Pm ouposed ter scarecrows. 'Twouldn't do
in the state Of Vermaount faint popular.
You might - we'll kick agin the Congrega-
toni church in Observation-Disclosures l do say
damacrow" There are many scarecrows
that look very ser. Gus and very much in
earnest, AMI some there are also that frown
at YOU, but it does not seem to be positive
maIevolence that ais them, but the unhy-
gienic way in which they are set up. A
scarecrow cannot smile and look joyous
with a ten-inch rip in his abdomen, with
his head dangling by a rope down his back
into the top of his rubber boot. All prop
erIy constituted and normally healthy Yer
mont scarecrows have a not repulsive look
indeed, most of them, big and little, slender
and cOrpulent, have 20 .itively jaunty and
social air Vermont scarecTows are rather
noted for their good nature, even when they
look their worst-New Work Sun.