Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-12
NO MORE cHESTNUTS.

NJ NUKE I1EoINUIo.
. What shall we do for chestnuts!
There is a fear that by and by we shall
have no more TO roast. Everywhere
the trees are dying. and our wise men
do not know what TO do about it. The
very thought of Thanksgiving with
out chestDuts, and from our own woods,
on our own farm. would rob the fes-
tival Of big part of its joys.
The very sight of the chestnut tree,
on glorious Saturday afternoon in
October. filled our boyish hearts with
gladness. Those glorious fronds had
been in our schedule for weeks. We
knew every chestnut tree within Eve
miles. We met all the boys in town
beneath their branches. Such free
fights with the farmers lads. on whose
preserve we trespassed. Such vigils,
on frosty nights under the harvest
moon, that we might be the frst on the
ground The memory is still keen of
the burr that yielded slowly to our
blows with a stone, and the pounded
fingers and the ever bag bursting full
by the time the sunbeams came out of
the west.
In those days the boy scout was not.
But we built our fires of faggots, and
cooked repasts of the real, roasted
article years ago. 1t was an industry
that paid. for we got the chestnuts off
a mans own trees and took them to
the village for sale. where the man
bought his own chestnuts of the dealer.
However. the boys belonged IN the
system. for we had thrashed the mans
trees. tumbled out of the branches,
fought Off his dogs, and put the goods
on the market.
II was hostile government that in
terfered with chestnutting. 1t was
some occult law. The practice is about
broken up. for while there are still
grand October fields. and enterprising
boys. there may soon be no more chest
nut trees. Cumberland News.
II takes ink. not ideas. to ill some
love letters.
This is real baseball weather, not
football season.
Columbus discovered us. but who did
discover the middies.
There is considerable public olamor
for somebody TO win a game.
Occasionally every one needs few
words he can't find in the dictionary.
This is Columbus Day. All hats off
to the man who discovered America.
We are usually too willing to give
our stomachs everything except rest.
Stand from under ladies. the entire
newspaper of today is taken up with
baseball.
There are a lot more theories about
raising children than there are
children.
Sometimes a young fellow works
four years to learn trade and then
doesn't learn it. ss
Sunday we learn all about "The
New Sin" Probably some such Of
tense as eating peas with knife.
Woman's page says you can be your
own beauty doctor. True. And from
what we see around. lot of you are.
The aeroplane will have to hustle if
I beats the automobile for record of
fatalities. judging by recent happen
ngs.
If it is not politics in the newspapers
III the time. it is baseball. Some of
he people. some of the time. would
ike to read news. real live, spicy read
.ble news" But. alas. those days
ire numbered with the past when
,ood. wholesome news was served up
o us daily in our metropolitan jour
lals.
Let the young men pull, the middle
lged push. and the old men plug, "or
scotch, If the wheels show signs of
slipping back in a mighty united effort
.or Annapolis. The babies can be de-
pended upon TO do the necessay grunt-
ng, and the mothers will be there with
he hearty cheer. All together, now,
'or Annapolis.