Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
MARCH WEATHER,
BY KATE THORN.
New York Weekl'
Everybody abuses March.

Everybody abuses March.
Mud, fog, rain. wind, freckles
But March is jolly old month, not
| withstanding all its dra backs, and the
calandar would not be complete
| without it.
Let it rain-who cares Were used to it
Let it blow-it will be a change. And as
| for mud. why, it has been so long since
the world saw anything else underfoot but
| mud that most of US have forgotten how
the solid ground would look
March is the month when very import
ant events generally transpire
In New England many of the roya
elections are held and the man who burns
with patriotic ardor to serve his country
| as selectman of the town, or mayor o.
| highways, has his happiness and import
ance made or married.
In March the thirty housewife lies
! awake nights and lays her plans fol-
squeezing the money for a new sitting
room carpet out of her helpless and in
nocently snoring partner. She plans how
she will turn the old carpet, and darn the
| thin places, and make it do duty in the
children s room; and she makes out the
spring campaign of house-cleaning, anc
says to herself that she will make thai
| same helpless and innocent partner of hers
get up early mornings and pound the
carpets. and thus save five dollars for g
new set Of hangings for the dining room
| bay-window.
In NJ arch most Of the peachbuds are
ruined by the cold weather, and we know
i that next summer peaches will be very
scarce and high, DIS usual. Also the fact
| tbot tlora will no 4l,c H.,
comes assured in March; and the young
man who is a favorite with the girls felic
ltates himself In consequence. and begins
to have rose-colored visions of bank &C
count. No ice, no ice-cream bills
In March the churches are gay with new
bonnets, and everybody goes to church
| The heart of the discouraged minister is
renewable feels that the interest is in
creasing, and so it is-in millinery
Last years maple sugar, warmed over
with the bottom of sundry molasses casks
appears in the market, labeled, Pure
maple sugar-this years run Trailing
| arbutus, ten cents a bunch is sold by red
fingered street gamins at every wind!
corner.
Horses are shedding their old hairs, and
everybody who rides or drives, is plastered
with them. Oranges are little sweetel
than they were. The crop of frozen ba
nanas is about all disposed of.
Somebody has heard robin and some
body else feels sure that he saw a blue
bird. Ginghams are in the shop windows
The baseball grounds are being cleared
up. Thrifty householders take off theil
storm-doors. and have the painter comes
up and calculate what he Will charge fol-
giving the clapboards 1.-TWO coats
Pansies and snow-drOps appear in many
places.
The wind blows, and new developments
in skirts and hosiery may be looked for
| Green and brown wells shroud the face O.
beauty. Freckle washes are in demand
and prices look up. Hats are continual,
blowing off Sign-boards creak in thu
breeze. LA Grippe is thing of tn.
past, we trust, but its twin sister, a BAG
cold, is everywhere present.
The skies are blue as those of June wher
the clouds allow the color to show through
The sun is warm and genial, and the day.
are growing so long that the evenings art
no longer intermiXable, and one ceases tt
wonder what shall be done to pass the tim,
between dark and bedtime
We know that winter is over. We art
| looking forward to spring. We all fee
like writing poems on it, but fortunatel,
we refrain, and only in our hearts we say
again and again, WELCOMED Wei
come! Welcome! Beautiful spring.