The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-30
STRANGE WARNING.

When the nrst me days come anu tne
soil awakes and grows green, while the
perfumed warmth of the air caresses us,
enters our lungs and seems to penetrate
to the heart itself, we feel agu desires
for indefinite happiness, a wish To run, to
go as chance may direct, to seek adven-
ture and drink In the sprinRtime.
The winter having been quite severe
last year, this iced of expansion was, in
the month of May, like a species OF in
toxication which had taken possession of
me.
Well, on awaking one morning | saw
through my window above the neighbor-
ing houses the great blue sheet of the sky
all brilliant with sunshine. The canary
birds hanging out in their cages, were al
most splitting their Threats, the servant
girls were singing i'm every story of the
house,a sound OF gaiety mounte from the
street, and l quilted my apartments, my
whole being aglow with joy, to go i knew
not where.
The people I met smiled; n breath of
delight fioaIed everywhere in the warm
sunbeams Of the returned spring. One
might say a breeze of love had spread
over the entire city; and the youEg
women who passed i'm morning toilets,
having in their eyes a hidden tenderness
and in their movements IA softer grace,
filled my heart with palpitations.
Without knowing how, without knowing
why, i arrived at the bank of the Seine.
Steamboats, were going to Suresnes, and
there came 10 me an irresistible desire to
take a stroll through the woods.
The deck of ala Mouche" was covered
with passengers, for the early spring sum
shine draws you from your house in spite
of yourself, and all of them were moving
hither and thither and chatting with their
~neighbors.
My neighbor wa a young lady, a work.
ing girl doubtless, with a grace altogether
Partisan, and a pretty blonde face beneath
locks which curled at the temples, hang
ing about her ears like RULED light and
dancing in the breeze. As | was gazing
at her admiringly, she turned her face
toward me and then suddenly lowered
her eyes, while a slight wrinkle, like n
smile abou to be born. appeared at the
corner of her mouth.
The calm river broadened. A warm
peace lowered In the atmosphere and a
murmur of life seemed to fill space. My
neighbor raised her eyes and, this time,
as | was still gazing at her, she smiled de-
cidedly. She was charming thus, and IN
her flying glance a thousand things APP
peared To me. a thousand things unknown
till then-all the charmo of tenderness, all
the poetry we dream of and all the happi-
ness we ceaselessly search for.
l was about TO speak to her when some
one touched me on the shoulder. i turned
in surprise and saw n man of ordinary as
pect, neither young nor old, who was re-
garding me with a sorrowful air.
~ would like to speak to YOU" said he.
made a grimace, which he saw, with
out doubt, for he added:
ats importantly
I arose and followed him to the other
end of the boat.
'.Monsieur," resumed he, "when winter
- IL a IL a. .... --I
its snow, your doctor says to you each
day: Keep your feet warm! Beware of
chills, colds, bronchitis and pleurisyr
Then you take "A thousand precautions;
you wear flannel, thick coats and heavy
shoes, which do not always prevent you
from passing two months i'm bed.
"But when spring returns, with its
leaves and its flowers, its warm and re-
laxing breezes aud its e~xhalations from
the fields which bring you a vague trouble,
an ~unaccountable softening, there is no
u TO say to you: Monsieur, beware of
love-! Ii is in ambush everywhere; il is
watching you from every corner. All its
traps are set, all its weapons sharpened
and all its perfidies prepared! Beware of
love-! beware of love! Ii is more danger
Gus than colds, the bronchitis or the pieu-
risy! Ii makes everybody commit ire
parable stupiditiesr Yes, monsieur, / tell
you that each year the government ought
to put big posters OH the walls containing
these words: Return of spring.! French
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