The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-04
THE SEASON CHANGETH.

zette.
THE SEASON CHANGETH.
Early Winter Reflections on MidsunmGI
| and Autumn Pleasures.
The great bowlder, earth, is again
gyrating along the colder curve of its
ellipse.
Or. discarding padding, autumn is
on its last legs.
The forest trees no longer appear in
highly-illumined tint and color.
The land-turtle, with new lie of an
old date pen-knifed on his hull by the
summer boarder, scratches gravel be-
meath the frost line to get winter
home.
The house-fy is no longer here to
commit his little errors of judgment in
regard to the solidity of the cream, the
temperature of the gravy, or the sticki-
ness of the execrable catch-'em-alive
paper.
The pretty-good-ha-ha mosquito joke
has disappeared from the papers, and
New Jersey real-estate men venture
to reopen shop.
The CHEEKY mower goes no more out
in the miasmatic morn to clip the
whiskers from the face of the earth.
He puts no more the little brown jug
in the cool hedge, as a pleasant recol-
lection during the burden and heat of
the day.
The Italian organist ceases his mon
key business.
The Stock Exchange fellows now
try their hand.
Awnings come down and in. Storm
doors go out and up. The turbulence
of baseball and watermelon is for
gotten. At the elevated station we
catch the early fall worm in the fresh
roasted chestnut.
The theatrical people, also, show up
with their chestnuts. They have with
them the prehistoric "Oh-don't-mind-
me "'in.rusion upon the lovers, just as
hugger and huggee are dreaming of a
palace lifting to eternal free rent
Then they have in stock, the regular
| sofa-flop with 'rm-better-now" recov-
cry; also, the "Thus-do-I-drink-to-
thee" from silver goblet made of
tobacco tin-foil.
There's the same villain pursuing,
the same steamboat bursting (Which
blows out the foot-lights), and the
same NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. diving with
rattling glass accompaniment. The
whole concluding with the usual
lunatic dance by all the talent, while
the audience are putting on their
wraps and saying: 81 didn't like it
very much. did your"
The ministers have had their
"much-needed rest" while their con-
gregations have had some of the same.
The price Of coal. except to people
living on the Lehigh Valley railroad,
who always own big baskets and chill
dren, has unhappily increased. For
the accommodation of city families
whose head has still ''ticket in the
drawer,"S being SO much out for out
ing,) the pailful business will be con-
tinued at the ,rual three hundred per
cent. advance on ton price.
The ice-creap. man has given the
corn-starch.anS.-milk the last
cold shake; bought some Japanese
paper napkins, and opened up with R
there, oysters!
Empty and desolate, hushed and
still is the summer hotel, and the
I Waterman is keeping his long vigil.
In the baggage-room few trunks re-
main, but they are held for skipped
bills.
Gone, alas! is the summer girl whose
laughter is still ringing in our ears
she of dress the daintiest, of hat the
iauntiest, of shoes the toniest. We
remember her arrival with the huge
van of trunks. he dreams of the
previous year weresinre Lied and she
was ready for other IS and other
hearts Ma had said It. would be the
last fussing on her part; and Pa, he'd
never stand the swindle again; and
younger sister bluntly wanted her Out
of her way.
Poor girl!
Each morning she watched the reg
lister for new names. each evening she
was ready for hop-order scribblers
The season waned, the sublime waltz
of Strauss, like her wardrobe, grew
old. The harvest passed, the summer
ended. Now, what we want to know
is, did she get engaged, or was il
again spoon, spoon, nothing but spoon!
III. B. StocktoeU, in Puck.
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