Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-06-06
Leafy Month of June.

The roses now are flinging all their
fragrance on the air, and the gentle
doves are cooling and a-wooing every
where; the humming birds are sip
ping sweetest nectar from the air. and
the honey bees are busy and improve
the shining hours. The droning.
humble bees are in the clover fields
and compel the miser blossoms their
boarded sweets to yield. The small
boy goes swimming and down
the wet bank slides the while the Turk
ing chigger in his epidermis hides
The ladies OF the churches hold their
picnic in the woods and rob the
household larder OF every thing that's
good The minister elucidates a ser
mon to the choir, but ceases when a
yellow Jacket puncturates his tire;
and the teacher Of the infant class gets
daubed with deviled egg, while a hor-
rid. hungry woodtick burrows in her
tender limb.
The chincL az and the later bug
the cut worm and the fly, tue squash
bug and the cabbage worm. this month
are Twin high, the oat louise and the
army worm, the culrant slug and such
have seized the vegetation and they
hold il in their clutch. The busy
little codling moth emerges from the
sod, and stings the baby pears and the
and the apples just for cod. And de-
vilish curculio deposits now its germ
and in the plums and cherries il lays
its little worm. The caterpillars nest
again up in the apple trees, and their
kittens eat the foliage, rocked by the
gentel breese. The ants are in the
cupboards and they revel in the jam,
while the reaches cock their noses up
and don't seem to care a cent,
June is the favorite month for
church festivals. and the willy church
worker skins the twenty-five dollar
clerk out of a weeks wages as she lad
les out his ice cream with a teaspoon
and gives him three strawberries for
dime, and sells him a hemsttched
apron for his girl and persuades him
to buy pen-wiper made out of
scrap Of red flannel, tooth pick and
peanut O religion, what crimes
are committed in thy name at the
June church festival
In June life is one glad sweet song
to the farmer boy. He rises betimes
that is to say, he gets up in time to
hear the first faint notes Of the mead
ow lark and listen to the morning stars
sing together He curries the mules
and annoints their sore shoulders with
axle grease. He sings a merry ronde-
lay as HES to the cornield; he dances
the two step all day long with cul-
tivator that has loeomotor ataxia.
When the voice of the whip po-will is
heard in the cleaning he unhitches
his team and quits work, but he does
not he like he did in the morning.
Nav. verify: he rides the rear mule to
the barn sideways for prudential rea-
sons: but his soul is full of sunshine as
he remembers that Mark Hanna and
Jim Jeifries were once poor farm boys
like himself, with feet that wore ma
roon-cclored chilblains in winter and
looked like wartv toads in summer.
During the first few days of June
the atmosphere viii be dry and moist
and the weather will be cool and
warm. The moon will be full on the
18th and the June solstice will last
from the 9Th to the 26th inclusive.
There will be heavy rains about the
goth, if congress has adjourned by
that tirae, and cyclones will he fire.
quent between the 18th and 22d. The
moon will sit on the celestial equa-
tor about the 18th and spit tobacco
Juice at Eros, while seismic distur-
Dances will sweep from pole to pole.
About the middle of the month col
leges will turn out LOT Of graduates
with their systems soaked plum
full of knowledge The girls will 60
home and erect a lawn tennis court
the boys with high collars on will
foozle with brassies
In June the spring calf should be
plucked from the parent bough and
weaned, for the grass is tender an d
succulent. Young calves should not
be plucked too soon, however, as they
are liable to acquire catham cast OF
c)untenance at the fag end which Will
cling to them though life.