The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02

Song of Miss Springtime.


house er his,
An he know Miss Spring a-comin' fer ter ak
i'm whar dey is!
Miss Spring she say
An Wild a bresh er blossoms sweep Winter
out de way.
It's dc very Springtime feein' dat's de
feelinest or all
KaZe you done been tho0' Gle weather =" en
Wen We Sees de vines a-creepn' ter de
cabin er de snow
An de mockir bird, he singin' whar ne sun
his feathers so.
He know de way ter sing
Wen it's howdy ter Miss Spring,
Wild Il sunbeam for ter prlmp Oh an f"
blossom on his wing.
Hi. Mister loud Woodpecker-is you mendin'
Yo, noise des wake de woods up! Shake
dat fire off yO' head!
But de vi'lets is a-lookin' lax a blue patch
err de sky,
An Mister Biuebird dress up lax his sweet
heart comm by!
oh, it's Spring fer sho,
An she mighty sweet ter know = -,
Don't you hear de Lady pullin' er de DELL
vine at de do?
Frank L. Stanton in Harper's Bazaar.
"Forgct It."
Every pathway is more or less beset
with thorns-whicl have their use, to De
sure. For it is by the thorns that
"-W travellers blind
Feel out our flowers.
Yet he would be a silly traveller who
should carefully gather the thorns ana
leave the roses behind. Many however,
there be who do that very thing. Not
believing that the evil thereof is SUI
ficient unto each day, they pile up evil,
carrying over into today the bad things
of yesterday and the day before, and
last year 1t is a strange infatuation.
For example, annoying incidents and
circumstances, unpleasant persons and
places are carefully treasured In the
memory, to be paraded at every oppor-
stunity. Some of these calamity-loving
souls carry a heavy load of past grlefs
which they keep quite fresh and harrow
ing by frequent stirring and the water
ing of copious tears. Worse yet, they are
not satisfied to gloat in silence over their
miseries, but insist upon sharing them
with every cOmer-who is not wary
enough to escape. Then the disease-lov-
ing people-hOw many are there who
keep life at low ebb and then waste
the poor remnant in perpetually rehears-
ing the details of past illnesses
One and all, these morbid minds enjoy
dwelling on their dislikes; in other words,
they love their hatreds.
Health and happiness spiritual pros
perity-are kept far aloof by all such
mental habits. The healthy and happy
are likewise repealed by the atmosphere
of irritation bitterness or gloom created
by such habits.
Like the habitual liar who ends by de-
sStrOylng his own perception OF truth, the
persistent harborer of calamity thoughts
must eventually destroy his capacity for
happiness.
Therefore, all should resist beginnings.
Learn to forget. Check yourself when
joke instead. A poor joke is infinitely
preferable to the best-told tale of trou
Bile.
There is a type of jolly, genial, whole
some humanity which laughs at present
pains and makes comedy of past ones;
which suffers keenly without bitterness
and looks back with gratitude upon
griets and hardships past, seeing in all
the hand Of loving Providence. AS the
bee draws honey from uncomely blooms,
so do these happy souls extract sweetness
from untoward events and receive and
give Inspiration from all that comes.
These may range all fields, past, present
and to come. They have learned to for
get-to sift out life's grains of gold and
to let the dust and rubbish go. 1t will
be extremely useful, in our pursuit of the
fine art of living, to take such charac-
tiers as these last four our eEemplars.
Let us cultivate their acquaintance, let us
draw them to us by swift and hearty re-
Spouse to their note of optimism, to their
brave and friendly gaiety.-Lora G. Lit
tie.
$3.50
Woman Suffrage in Current Magazines.
Among the articles in current maya
for-o h fhO
of woman suffrage are Woman and
Democracy" by Borden Parker BOVINE
in the North American Review; Nv oman
Suffrage as it Looks Today" by Mrs. o;
III. p. Belmont, in The Forum; Social
Idealism and Woman Suffrage" by
George Willis Cooke. in The Chautau-
guam; Women Workers and the Labor
Movement" by Eliza beth j. Hansen. IN
the American Federationist, and SHOULD
Women Have Equal Suffrage" by Coy
Shafroth, in the National Monthly. Writ
ing from a personal knowledge OF the
work in woman suffrage in his state for
over sixteen years, the governor OF Colo
RADIO hei:Gve that ''the highest consldera-
tons of justice and good government de
mand equal suffrage for women.
Possibly some political significance
may be attached to the appearance in
the National Monthly of this article, one
of the ablest ever written for any maya
zine on this particular subject. 1t is
printed along with other notable arClcleS
on questions of great public Importance
contributed by distinguished men affillat-
ed with the Democratic party, IN the
first anniversary number, the Jefferson
number, of the magazine, of which Chair
man Norman e. Mack of the Democratic
National committee is the editor and
publisher. Ibis may be a suffrage
straw."--F. M. A in Woman's Journal.
How 7 Silent Ont of D00rs
The present interest in the out-of-door
bedroom has led me to give my own ex-
perience, with the hope that it will help
others to equally favorable results. An
attack of pleurisy last October left me
so depleted in strength that the attending
physician ordered me to give up my po-
SitiOn as teacher in a girls school, and
go at once to the country and to a high
er altitude. OF course it seemed i'm
possible, but the only thing to do was
to obey orders without delay and worry.
| went at twenty-four hours notice
to a small town in the northern part of
New Jersey, sixty-fve miles from New
York. and took up my abode in the noun
tain, 1000 feet above the sea-level. The
necessary outfit was simple one, and
consisted of the following articles: Tent,
cot blankets, bed-shoes, sleeping cap
and flannel nightdress for night use and
a heavy skirt, ulster, sweater, heavy
shoes and tam-o'-shanter for day use.
The first day in the new surroundings
found me too weak to move, so l sat,
wrapped in a steamer-rug, on the veran-
da of the house where l took my meals.
The tent was put up that afternoon on
a platform raised foot above the level