Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-11

oats. caps the roundbottomed stool at
the restaurant. lie gaps and gaps
Ike q hen with the hookworm In her
throat before the application Of kero-
sene.
"B'lleye I'll take an order OF some
ham hook and cabbage over insur-
rectoed aigs fragmented with par
snip tips with little creme de luke
border and chifioned with ruby OF
radlsh-with Il little Cardigan sea
on the side"
The waiter iuggles with some bis
cults and broth before the eyes OF
the allment until he finally awak-
ems 20 realize he is preparing 70 lunch
one peculiarly affected drags his
feet as he mopes into the hardware
mans keep. His legs, his eyes and
his arms hang heavily from their
sock
There aln't n thing on earth fot
me TO do he says, inspecting the line
Of fishing tackle the while, There IS
nobody in that part OF the store, but
that makes no difference 10 a fellow
suffering from a bad attack.
There amt n thing 10 do, ! have
got In all the clothes that wife can
wash this week, and there won't be
any deliveries until two or three days
and two bits for hooks and trash day
past with thirty-fve cents worth Of
line for the weather win be fine all
this week and those old fishing poles
as good as ten cents worth Of sinker
lead and her Easter hat bought III
catch a eatfish's kitten by heck"
Extracting the point of a fishing
hook from his neither iip he pays the
dealer IN fish supply sandwiches six
eighty returning from the waters
edge al the end Of tho week with his
fishermans luck and his booty from
the hardware store. only that and
nothing more.
Sweet may be the uses Of adversely
as Helen Of Troy didn't say, but It's
different with spring fever II is hard
70 place your finger on Il and TO de
termine It's exact usefulness. II Is so
flckle. And no two ever had It alike.
Many men cry for II, and poor wo-
man IS not immune from It's fascina-
tlons. There is something in dizzy
height that makes a fellow wish to
participate I'm a dash 10 earth. There
Is something in the movement OF pom
dorous machinery TO cause hi INTO de-
sire to be ground into link sausage.
Around the sweets Of the cider mill
there is n something that causes the
poor yellow Jacket to enter doom, and
the height Of many fly's ambition is
to dabhle his feathers in the crater Of
a steaming cup Of coffee And with
spring fever there is a llstlessness, an
aching, an indefInable something that
causes It's welcome and no strenuous
ness 10 throw It off.
The young girl seeks n hammock
and feels like cuzzling up to some
great big roughneck OF a lover who
ought 10 be driving stakes for the cir
Gus tent or carrying ballast for sky
scraper instead Of foolng away his
time trying to induce the maid with
the rural reflections 20 fly with him.
The old bachelor yawns and scroun-
ches up in the corner Of his room
until he resembles scarcecrow
blown against the corner Of the corn
crib, mellowdraming all the while Of
this and that and the girl he left be-
hind him.
The man OF family takes some
thing to thin his blood, If he can af-
ford Il, grows peevish rs the child
simpering Just after supper when 1t
wants to go to sleep and no one pays
attention, listens to his wife tell about
what fine potatoes the neighbors are
raising, regrets that he ever got mar
ried, and finally goes down town to
TRADE against the monetary commits
sion, the city commission and the
way laundries tear up shirts.
IT'S Il funny thing.