Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-03-18
OFT AND ABOUT.
SELECTED ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Spring and the Pussy Willow-Homeo-
pathie Party-Dr. Schinz' Conclud-
ing Lecture-Pike-Gor Birthday
lebration.-Other News.

ing Lecture-Pike-G Gordon Birthday
Celebration, -Other News.
The country cousin comes in handy
about this time of the year as bearer
Of pussy willows and other early spring
things to the jewellers in cities. The
country cousin of feminine persuasion
| Is particularly nice about remembering
such trifles, but her men folk are apt to
object to being numbered up for the sake
of somebody else's aesthetics, although
| they are not above going out into the
| hedgerows and byways to cut the pus-
sizes, or tying them into convenient bun
dies for ma or sis to carry into town.
Yes, the country cousin begins to get
his and her innings about this time OF
the year. The people who live in Wor-
cester and Boston and New York have
had things pretty much their own style
since November or December and now
the folks up Holden and Oxford and
Auburn way are more than catching up
with them. The sense Of spring is an
>enriching experience, and one that is
| felt more distinctly and wildly in the
country than among brick sidewalks
and plate glass show windows. Out in
| the fields and country roads, although
the trees are still naked, only pussies
and catkins having ventured out yet,
and the meadows are brown, and the
air has an edge on 1t. The sense of
something beautiful about to happen is
nevertheless SO persuasive, so imminent,
that there is an exhilaration in it hardly
to be explained by the scant and meagre
evidences in sight.
The truth Of the matter is that the
mind sees It all with the eyes of
memory and of hope-a powerful
double lens that is capable of perform
ing far more wonderful miracles for us
than our bold New England landscapes
of early spring demand Each one car
rieS the miracle-worl1ing secret around
with him. and it only needs the faintest
clue the merest hint, and his mind and
senses, all alive for the smell or sound
or vision, whatever 1t is, set off with a
rush to their task of making a whole
out of this tiny shred of an impression.
Not one Of us but reconstructs a whole
spring, with all its Sensuous delight, its
romance and beauty, half a dozen
times before we can seriously declare
spring to have come.
Then take your sprigs of pussy will
lows left yesterday by your thoughtful
visitor, and still smelling sweet of the
country, and place them so that, looking
at them, you can still sit in the sunshine
and see out on the Shrewsbury or Hol-
den hills There! now it is spring for
you, and so long as your pussies stay on
the Dough and the sun shines and you
can look out ON Worcester county-so
long as that 1t is spring for you One
swallow does not make a summer, but
one pussy can make a spring.
| Nine. Patti is soon to repeat her alb
solutely last, positively final and never
! to-be-repeated farewell tour of the
There was pleasant gathering of To-
cal homeopathic physicians Thursday
night in one of the small parlors con-
! nected with the State Mutual restaur-
ant, when Dr. Edith L. Clarke narrated
some of her experiences at the Poly
clinic of New York, DR.. Clarke, who is
the latest homeopathic physician to
come to Worcester, was formerly To-
Gated in Westboro, and is the wife of
DR.. Edwin A. Clarke. She has been
! spending the winter in New York in
| postgraduate study, and her reading of
/ notes upon clinics and lectures while
there was instructive as well as deeply
| interesting. DR.. Clarke spoke for about
an hour and a half, after which lunch
con was served.
The physicians present were; DR.. Ed
win A. Clarke, DR.. E. A. Fisher, DR.. E.
| Amanda G. Bray, DR.. ]. K. Warren, Dr.
Frank Warren, DR.. ]. P. Rand, DR..
( Carl Crisand. DIR. j. M. Barton, DR.. Geo.
/ A. Slocomb and DR.. Lamson Allen.
March 80 the physicians will meet
txrfH lid
the story of her recent medical expe-
riences in New York.
Woman suffrage is fair subject for
discussion, but it has not yet got be-
yond its academic stage. Every time it
invites a vote it is beaten, and 1t is Of
ten beaten in way which leads people
to believe that it is making no advance
in public opinion. II woman suffrage is
| to succeed in the future, as its adher-
ents claim and doubtless believe, their
best policy is forbearance of tests for
! the present, and the first step in this
| direction indicated is that they cease to
carry it before the egislature,--Boston
Herald.
Dear Out and About:
4 l don't know that it is ever worth the
while to correct mistakes. submit this
to you: Mrs. j. B. Stone did not report
! from the Cheerful Letter. 1t was Miss
Jennie Stone of Clinton, who is the
chosen accredited representative from
the league for the Cheerful Letter work.
To say that the league has more in
fuence in the Country" than the club,
was not your idea, l know. As it is a
county organization it is known better,
or associated with them, quite as much
as the elub-that I suppose was what
you meant to convey. Cordially,
Sarah Theo Brown.
Country is a misprint for county,
Ed
literary and vocal entertainment
and drama will be given in Grange Hall
Tuesday evening under the auspices of
Rev. H. Conway, Miss Ida Bell, Mrs.