Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-09
April Here in Maine.
(Ranrnr Nous /

tSdnSOr NrWS.)
This is the bright ana particular month
| when the dealers advance the rrjcc ot
| rubh"r boots 30 per cent. on account of !,
| war i'll South America. and efaploy tn,
money in buying new Easter hats for
| their wives and daughters the montI,
when the country street commissioners
| appoint every man who vote d for them a :
q deputy. and then beg chewing tobacco
| from every new official to show there is
no hard feeling: the month when farm
| erS unplck the straw Stufting FROM the
| cellar rllw&e and permit the odore of de-
| cayin9 apples and turliips, to esetpts-fflto
| the fOggy atmosphere, giving .hose who
pass by tn" house the idea that the en-
| tire family is obliged to live on boiled
| dinners all the time; the month when the
| Early Rose potatoes are brought up into
| tie kitchen and placed behind the cook
stove and close UP against the family dye
| pot, 50 the innocent farmer maH- braS
| about having new potatoes for dinner on
| July 4: the month when the Old hens fam
| cy lightly turns to sitting on briokbats;
| the month when assorted lots of neigh
borhoGd cats howl stridently through the
| mnOnliehte1 nights: the month when
Eliza James best young man gets in the
habit of calling around with his Old
clothes on and finding fault about the
cost of living and the price of furniture:
the month when young calves "blart" in
the open pens when the red-and- black
catcrpillarS crawl out in their fur coats.
Whom the first butterfly comes to give the
lie to the Croakers who declare that win
ter is not over; the month when culverts
which cross the road sink two feet in a
single night and stay sunkcn until The
towns money is available: when the
weekly whist club diSbandS: when the furS
are embamed in camphor ana laid ava y
to await the resurrection six months later;
when the whitc-breaStcd swallows begin
to sing on the roof of the house. when the
banking is taken away, when the forest
and apple trees look pink at sunset, when
-th" goat rampant stands deflntly above
the kcg of hnCiI beer. when the town as
SCISSORS listen to elaborate lies. and when
til" days become so long that most peo-
pie abandon the practice Of getting up to
see the sun rise.
The most noticeable odor of springtimc
in April f- produced by the generous skunk
near farm buildings, and by the equally
liberal skunk cabbage far out among the
swampS. Frogs should be breaking their
way mp through the ice before the end oi
the month. Bats should he flying about
"nthuildinGs ut dusk. The regular read
tr of the family newspaper should brine
Inc editor fine b0u0uCt of M1YtiowerS
The biggest egg ever laid by living her
ShOnld be deposited in the box back o
the barn door. The children going Il
school should come home every night Will
wet feet and dnmand dosing with pain
Killer and chcckcrberry. The campho
'hittit Sht'iu btSlil tp turn cloudy Defor
every storm. Pneumonia should kee D tn
doctors on the Jump for the sake of Civ
ing them needed exercise. Strange an,
fearful wild animals should he hear,
bowling and wailing in the spruce wood
NJ midnight. Luminous and irideScen
stars should bre3k loose from the sky Il
the early hours of the morning. and com
trailing to earth as portents of disaster
llark ducks should be heard hrrtlin
past far overhead in the hours of even
ing. The earth should style and seen an
| "nZ" with moisture. Tho nights shoul
| grow shorter and the days longer mt
| April shall have rim its course. and ushe
| in the glad DAYS Of MAY