Semi-weekly herald., 1911-04-20
SPRINGTIME.

Spr1ngtlme mas ever Deen the glad-
some season of the year, the long rest
of the winter months is at an end
and nature, in her kindly mood, seems
anxious to obliterate and blot out the
scars of desolation wrought by the
harshness of the winter. Man and
beast are inspired with joy and well
come the coming of the pleasant
springtime days. The tiny leaflets
and the tender grasses begin to peep
forth and a subtle change begins to
show on the hills. The snow-capped
mountains appear cold and bleak and
We turn from them with gladness to
the green lawns and early vegetation.
Springtime is the clearing day in
nature, the old is put away and the
new is born, the past is forgiven and
only the present and future is regard
ed, the failures Of the dead year are
forgotten in the promises of the new.
With animals, and with the vege-
tation, the years which are past are
as though they had not been, man
alone, of all life, remembers the past
and measures the present by it, he
sees the recurrence of the time of op-
portunity and is fired afresh with am
bition, he buys again the spade, the
hoe and the rake, for the fever Of
springtime is in his blood, and again
he makes even greater garden plans
than in the days gone by.
With the coming of the springtime
the housewife, usually SO careful of
her husbands comfort and thoughtful
OF the home, is seized with the house
cleaning frenzy, the flyspeck on the
windowpane and the speck of dust in
the remote corner of the closet, take
on a sudden and miraculous growth
and appear, in her maddened eyes,
each as great as Smelter hill and all
love for her husband and her children,
and their welfare, is temporarily
dead.
Daughter, the darling of the home,
becomes changed with the advent of
the springtime, instead of thoughtful
ly remaining in bed while her mother
gets up and gets nice warm break
fast for her, she rises up early in the
morning and rushes out to tell her
mother of the beautiful Easter hat
in the window of the great Bunkum
Shop which is marked down from
$26.50 to $27.49, of the hobble skirt
at Dressem and Barbems' for only
$3.50, of all else her mind is blank,
the fever of the springtime is upon
her.
Son, according to his age, is either
nutty on the subject of tan shoes and
green and red socks, or marbles. If
he has attained the age when girls
loom in his sight then it is the shoe
and sock mania which has taken pos
session of the regions where reason
is supposed to reign supreme but if
he is of the age when girls are only
nuisance in his eyes then it will be
the marble madness which will effect
him.
The cook will also feel the fever of
the springtime and it will probably
take new job to cure her of the
madness which is coursing with d. &
R. G. swiftness through her veins, she
feels the call oil the wild and she
must 60.
Even papa is vaguely aware that
new condition is on tap, his blood
calls for some springtime tonic and
he hikes himself unto a place where
bock beer is administered, in proper
sized doses, unto those whose condi-
tion financially is such as to re-
quire it. a'g
Towser feels the change and wan
ders far from home, he comes in at
the late dawn with torn and bleeding
ears and blood on, if not in, his eye,
The household pet, Mr.. Thomas H.
cat, also notes the wildness prevalent
and sits on the back fence and sings
his soulful songs of love and war
all through the Silly night.
Springtime is the forgiveness OF
nature, the mistakes and the crimes
OF the past are pardoned, the new
season, like new book, is before us.