Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09

fIvE,TrES FOR THE DISPATCH.
vas just little while ago we heard Q
robin sing
every first that came, you know, to tel
US Of the spring.
Fas only just the Other day we watched 9
budding rose,
now the fields are scre and gray ano
cold the north wind blows
!, winter DAYS come on again in Just the
same OLD WAY,
water pipes NiiI freeze and burst and
plumbers viii be gay;
furnaces will give us smoke while hea,
goes up the fiue,
d otherwise conduct themselves the way
they always do.
ssnow from here and everywhere again
Will -aylv sweep
on our walks and pile itself in mountains
wide and deep.
men who tightly close the door of office
or OF ear
summer time will shortly strive to leave
them all ajar.
ain the same old couples in the parlors
presty soon,
COO and spoon,
/ "pa,' who pays for gas and coal, will
make the air turn blue
lust the very same Old way that fathers
always do.
se more upon the icy street we'll slip and
Side and fall.
use tae very same remarks such incl
dents recall;
We, WAC howled in summer during
every sp,try day,
j lie aHG say We liked it, in the very same
ula way.
Where Coal Goes in Summer.
f the almanac had never been invented,
we could guess that summer is about
dy 10 close the front blinds and 60 South
the winter season. Autumn is putting
her mourning gowns OF gray, which,
ugh not so winsome as were the airy,
Y. grass-green draperies of the CAV and
d. spring or the low-bodiced garments of
lntuOus summer, are yet charming as
weeds of widow who is sufficiently
Hg and handsome 10 feel assured that
doesn't have TO remain a widow min
nEer than she cares to- In the melan-
j. days the dreamer, as he notes the
Inward flight of the festhered tribes,
Of the winds: "Where do the birds
IN winter" Bat the head of .he average
isehoid has a query to knock that one
Y: Where does The coal go in sum-
one chilly morning he crawls out Of bed
:, inspecting the thermometer, he finds
at last something is coming his way.
s winter. he goes TO the basement TOR
and finds the coaI bin as empty as the
misses OF a sumlLer girl He has pain
~ distinct recollection of having bought
eral tons of coal very early last spring
patch out last winters supply. He
Tles upstairs and asks his wife if she
Mt any better sense than to
We the basement window open and
thieves carry away about ten
OF coal, when she informs him that
~ particle OF the fuel was burned last
ing before they let the fires 90 out This
Ie as him.
Every Man Is Sort of Mr. Bowser.
Beng a man he selfshly seeks to increase
cker clothing. and he goes in search of a
I \ hich he took of last sp-ng. 1t is mo-:
er: he expected to find it, and in tone
voice very different from shat in which,
une night long ago, he plea e'i that he
m be her devoted slave forever and d
he calls to his wife:
SAY. where in the name of kingdom
ae have you hid liza; heavier suit of
thes OF mine?" Ami She asks: "Why,
al suit do you mean, dear?"
Just as though l have got so many suits
/ you can't keep track OF theml That
ck suit, just about as good as new. that
" right here behind the closet door,
'N ny, yog ave them away, dear"
'Oh-ii-h, , rather guess not it / know
self. IA liberal to fault, but | IN not
civ a. -.te away fiue suit like that"
'l3@ Es.. dad though Don't YOU remem-
IL as,> jus: after you had won $40 on a
oi some kind, and one-armed man
u, % years old came along and told YOU
was an old soldier, and you gave him that
{, your spring overcOat, and winter
/? l said then you might need them next
/, and you replied. oh, bother
u 4dAi. l. Al DG before
n, or something TO that effect Don't
I remember, dear?" He remembers.
IN the head of the household goes into
.ate OF utter collapse, and wrapping him
IN Thought he SpecGiates upon the intoxi-
ing effect Gf spring ana summer weathe:
I induced him To buv all SORTS OF gew-
thar he feels sure he would not have
chased mad he not been hypnotized. But
not call him fool because there are SO
ny OF his kind you might make yourself
popular.
How the Dollar Grows.
We are all rich in the gay spring and
den summer, but it is different in the
tier when, oddly enough, the cold seems
greatly increase the size of dollar.
when the happy butterflies aredancing
lu The sun,
tn Out a thought that by ana by the sum-
m,r viii be done,
ey kiss each bud and flower and they firt
with every breeze.
cir whole existence one brief hour of JOY
UuaneSS ana ease;
d a. we watch them fitting SO our
thoughts as lightly fly,
oxicated by the CHARM of earth and sea
ana sky
s're rich as kings, or think we are, with
all the world in rhyme,
d then dollar really seems no bigger
than a dime.
10 isn't gay when joy Il bounds and every
things alive?
Ien ala tie bees arc bringing in the
honey TO the hive?
"a birds a-singins every where and
flowers al in bloom,
beauty dancing in the air without O.
shade of gloom?
en- We forget tnat OF our wealth we ought
to put away
title sinking fund with which to meet
rainy Gag:
when orr summer gold has fown and
snow Is on the ground
tGen a dollar looks to be about a mile
around.