Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

let your land lie idle and bare half of the
yea. Don t put too much of kind in one
place, either of plant or fertilizers. Make
the labor on the growing crop, or the crop
ltsel, tit the ground for the next one.
"THE SUMMER GIRL
An Eloquent Apostrophe to Her Many
Personal Charms.
For response to the second toast an
nounced by the New York World, The
Summer Girl the POSTMASTER called
wise known as W. J. hampton, the Abou
Ben Adhem of Summer Girl Seekers"
who, after quoting the toast as follows,
proceeded to speak thereon with his accus-
toned felicity:
The Summer Girl, born of the South
wind and the June sun, she fits, dainty,
rosy, dimpled apparition. clad in gowns
that disclose and yet conceal her myriad
of summer. Hayward and capricious as
are the firehies Of summer night, she
beckons and we follow. Rare product of
the summer season. she stands alone
among her sex. A mermaid at Narragan-
sett, dryal at Richfeld and pymph at
White Sulphur, she changes her mood and
tense to suit the woods or sea. All hail,
the Summer Girl. We fear and we love
her!
How like rare mosaic picture thisl
How true The tints and shades that touch
this fairest being Of the world; this svm-
ph0ny In Bingham, when the sun doth
stand atop the hills; this harmony in cloud
full, misty tulle, when night comes on and
hangs her lantern In the sky! All hail,
the Summer Girl the fluffy flower of June
the sweet rosebud of all the year, the
seasons charm, the dear ideal of day
that, when the winter twilight falls, fades
into darkness and is gone. Ephemeral
sweetness. born to live SO short a time, it
needs must be that in this little span a
| world CT loneliness must be enclosed, else
| would there be no Summer Girl. She is
| the child of bird songs and of flowers; a
gay and gladstone sprite that floats upon
a wave of plaits and furbelows, of tucks
and f1ounces, of parasols and fans, and
with blue-eyed smile, kiss high-tilted
Oh her finger-tips, nod as if sunbeam
bent to touch rose a CHEEKY word
laugh, contagious as are Cupid pains,
whispered sigh, an eyelid dropping to
the tone Of a tender swain, she trips fan
tastic through the months and takes the
sunlight with her when she goes.
The painter paints the Summer Girl,
and curses colors that cannot copy hers;
the poet writes her lines, and breaks his
pen because it falls so short of her; the
lover lisps his sweetest words, and feels
they are but grains of sand cast upward
at the stars, and still she moves serenely
on. the sweet subIimity of guileless grace
the Summer Girl. I'VE fear her, and
we love her, too, but with love which is
that perfect love that casts out fear. Her
gentle eyes were never made to gaze on
aught less lovely than the sight she sees In
her own looking glass, and when she looks
on us there is that wild, enraptured Joy
within our hearts that blind men feel when
vision is again enthroned, and Gods own
sunshine once again falls fuctifying into
tie dead soil of the soul.
On silver sands her footprints fall; In
emerald waves her white skin CLEANS; by
babbing brooks her voice is heard; from
mountain heights her skirts, by swinging
breezes tossed. wave signals to the rising
sun; across the far off plains she whirls
from sea to sea; upon the ocean long and
in her fight-here, there, and everywhere
we see this goddess of the glory land.
this inspiration OF dream, and with shut
eyes and trembling hand we lift our glass
and drink to her-thn Summer Girl.
1t is proposed to put the newspaper re-
porters of Brussels, Belgium, In uniform,
and semi-mihtary costume, with hand
some frogged tunic, is suggested as the
proper thing. The desirabiIity Of the uni
form was first made apparent at the
Stanley reception, when they were hustled
about like ordinary mortals because their
identity was not known.
Awriter in the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
reports that he has solved the problem Of
keeping pantaloons in shape. His plan
is to have a separate pair Of suspenders for
each pair of pants and hang the garment
by the supporters on two pegs about as far
apart as a man s shoulders. Try this, he
says, and you will notice that the pants
never bag at the knees.
Sir George Campbell was describing him
self the other night as a devoted guerrilla
hanging on the rear of the government.
He pronounced the word, however. ''goril-
la and now he is known as the ape-llke
ancestor of our race. Sir George Campbell
will be known as the devoted gorilla as
long as he sits IN parliament.
J. NJ. Gibbs, of Rochell, has several red
pepper stalks of last years growth. The
stalks bore pepper last year, and owing to
the warm winter, were preserved. They
bore all through the winter and are still
bearing. and if nothing happens to them
they will be bearing next year
Two Men Killed.
SHAWNEE O.. Aug. 30.-Two men were
killed and another fatally injured by the
wrecking of construction train On the
Cincinnati, Shawnee & Hooking railroad
today.
When a woman loves man she goes
whole hog. even to the wart on his nose.
II ism r thie pav with man