Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-03
A GUIDE TO TROPICAL POETS.
Suggestions by the Man Who Writes DC
casionaI Verse.

There was an addition TO the suffusion
OF cpicurean satisfaction that always
such times. a beam in his eye. which
showed that his higher man was TAX
ing care of some m0rsel Of reflection.
says the New York Evening sun. The
tuterie respected his silence. an at last
he began tn talk.
This valentine verse-ive been think
ing about it. | write 4 little myself Just
as make my own cigarettes. and I've
found that SeaSonable verse is produced
out of season. | suppose that the rhymes
about hearts and valentines that you are
reading this week Were written not later
than the first of the year. And have
conceived an idea as a result of knowing
this i'll connection with the pcrodiCity of
most humor. have outlined in my mind
a comic calandar for the guidance of the
public and those who write for it. 1t is
planned along the lines OF the court cal
endars.
We'll, take January to make proper
beginning. Now. what subjects are APP
propriate to January? New Years sug-
geStS itself at once. Then you may put
in a bracket opposite the words resou-
lions, prospects,, prophecies. retrospects.
which can proiitably be celebrated in
prose and rhyme this month. But as ii
is a winter month. during it you may
look out for I'm the manner of altman
dCSb sleigh rides. snow or the lack of
1t. signs for summer. and skating girls.
December, February and possibly March
will also share with January the about
this time subjects. And in passing YOU
will note that each season may have a
similar scattering generalization. Obv-
| ousiy, IN the spring there is love. the
voice of the turtle; buds. sap and bloom;
nature awakening to new life In sum
mer 1t IS always profitable "a think
metrically OF winter; to dwell upon The
summer girl, vacations, seashore, sun
and bicycles. The fall is not so fruitful
but you can scntimentalize about dreary
soreness, Welcomes, waling winds ana
naked woods.
But to resume the category of par
tlculars: February is a very fertile
month There is the ground hag, the val
eentine, the father of his country.
bracketed with hatchets lies and cherry
trees. and in off or on years leap wear
may be treated accordingly
March is rather barren but it may
aiWayS go IN or out like lion or lamb,
pheric No Mans land. And there is ST.
Patrck's day.
April brings us chance at its very be-
ginning. Later on there are showers
and woman's fickleness, Also it brings
US Easter. and | forgot to add that
lenten humor is due in February and
March April is altogether a feminine
| er1y. 'i
May we can give over to moving, to
the suburbanite. the real estate agent
ana ana flowers. DECORATION day is one OF
| the few possibilities open to the more
| seriously inclined poets.
But won't string this out You can
see "nat | mean Put down the gradu-
| ate especially the sweet girl kind for
June; the Fourth for July: hylrophobia
ana lawn mowers for August, the re-
iurh TO town. the close of vacations and
| base ball (Which / forgot to state is
suitable all through the summer) for
September: nutting parties hunting Dur
yes ana loot bah (also for November
Tor october; election and Thanksgiving
| l9T November and Christmas ana the
old year for December
This is only rude analysis. | OK
peel 10 classify the subjects which may
range throughout the year ana .,di
them to the calendar I've given yo,
when J elaborate it, IN have il pub
l i;d. thlnk there's place for it. with
50 serviceablc to the public as to the nro-
iesslonai who is looking for a market