Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-21
NO COMPLAINTS OF
vERNAL EQUINOX
HEARD BY POLICE
Authorities Don't Question Lee
gaIity-Spring's Advent At
tended by Many Signs.

Today is the first day of spring. AL
manacs agree unanimously on this. 1t
was ushered in by Did Sol in a salu-
brious humor and u sly wink as he
rose this morning with h intention
OF sending the mercury up for another
six months.
Policemen do not know that this is
the first day Of spring.
What day is this 2" was inquired of
che. and he answered suspiciously, as
he drew a little Sherlock Holmes in
spiration from the climate which IS
obviously getting better after its bad
spell, Monday"
rs ii the first day of spring." was
the next question. and he lost the inspi-
ration, replying, yes! get the habit.
His arm waved majestically along he
street where some people were wearing
overcoats and some were not. His sign
language was eloquent but not poetical.
over in the parks men reclined on
| some of the benches. Time being
money, and they, not having it in the
latter sense, were spending it in the
abstract, which is never forged or
counterfeited.
IF you had to write on the first day
Of spring what would you do?' one
of them was asked. I'D write today,
he answered logically.
What would you take to write some
thing?' continued the conversation,
and still applying logic with a yawn, he
said: Lets get it where the free
lunch is largest"
Despite the many ways in which 1t
was received, a spring which never
came before is upon US with a leap.
People with the commercial instinct
know it, and the drug stores are dis
playing sulphur and molasses n
tonics in their windows, gardeners are
raking over the parks n seed stores
are getting busy with the mail cata-
logue.
The sunshine whispers gently to get
off those winter togs, while a north
wind says don't do it, and the poor
mortal is between the voices of spring
and hay fever. Over on Mulberry street
tit smells like spring. Up on Prince
street the merchants are again getting
closer to nature than Inspector Ship
man allows them. The windows are
full of lowers and millinery waiting for
the modern Easter sacrifice of bubbles
salaries on the altar of vanity, which
in another week will be doing business
at the same old stand, as the season
of Lent is nearing a close.
Some of the trees are budding; so
are some of the g%eniuses, and the big
waste-paper basket dedicated to poetry
indicates that the latter will still bud
and may die still budding. This is the
day upon which the fancy of young
men are said to turn to thoughts of
love lust the same as they do on every
| other day of the year, but today the
poetic license throws down the bars
and the statement is allowed to be
made in everything a sentimental per-
son says or writes.
According to all precedent and Gus
tom this is the official opening of the
! equinox, according to h forecaster,
who in one place prophecies that it will
be cold and stormy, and. then just to
make sure that you will understand
that he is right, says in another place
that it will be warm and pleasant.
The police do not know whether the
vernal equinox is legal or not, and
when informed that it began today,
Chief Corbitt remarked that no one
had informed him of it and that there
were no complaints from the sheriff's
office. 1t can stay open.
Spring can also stay open 1t is open
for a season, the season is warm, and
it is fine so far as it has gone.