The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-04-07
APRIL

1.-THE daughters Of the White House
then
Were merely being wooed;
On Sunday nights few Young men
Would pleasantly intrude.
1.-THE night was made for serenades
Beneath the silent stars.
For sweet apostrophies to maids,
The music of guitars.
1--WE Congressman, grown cold in
love,
Were blind to what it meant;
We saw the smiling moon above
With fatuous consent.
'The dread significance of it
Thy wit, friends, little bit,
Thou 1T hear the wedding bells.
q For wedding gifts my pay has gone,
Ny raiment and my all;
For wedding gifts | live upon
Such mama as may fall.
" For brooches and for loving cups
Ny state is sad to view;
Tonight, ] think, the Congress sups
AT Hash House NO. z.
In shame do 7 harangue the throng,
And prate upon my needs;
But these assessments come along
Just like a string of beads
1t is ragged Congressman
Who quitteth one of three
" Now by halidom, he saith,
No more of this for mel'
April was called by the ancients the
loveliest of the months. This was be-
cause it typifed both the beauty of
Venus, for whom it was named, and
her philosophy of the uses of beauty.
Venus was the most beautiful creature
who ever lived. She was the Lillian
Russell of mythology. Everybody
wanted to marry her, and speculation
as to her choice was as great as that
with respect to Alice Roosevelt IS
She knocked the wind out of every
body by marrying Vulcan, who did
general vulcanizing and blacksmith
ing business, and was about the age
of Secretary McAdoo. He was so
ugly that people thronged to his shop
To ITdut. JuSI DIS we gO W ste IIuult
Foy. 1t had been supposed that Venus
would marry Apollo or some other
ravishing male beauty, but she took
Vulcan and held the soldering iron in
his shop for him when the automobile
season was on. She explained that
she considered it the duty of every
beautiful woman to marry an ugly
man, and asked how else the average
of beauty was to be raised. Nobody
could say, and from that day to this
beautiful women have married ugly
men. Thus we have in April the love-
illness of Venus ard the thunderbolts
OF Vulcan, a combination which meant
more to the ancients than either the
flowers of May or the charms of June.
Sweet maiden of the long ago,
How many men have blest thy wit,
And when the gas was burning low
Have rendered gratitude for it9
And thou, old top, had it not been
| For your droll smile the ages through
To give an old man heart to win,
| What would have happened McAdoo?
At any rate, the cherry blooms
will calmly burst upon the view, and
rare and delicate perfumes will wan
der up the avenue. The blithe and
supple jointed calf will lightly tread
the flower mead, constituents will
/ telegraph their trusty Congressman
for seed, the whippoorwill at dead of
night will run the pleasant scale of
spring, the tax assessor will delight in
prying into everything, the playful
mole will raise his crest in green EN-
bosening on the lawn, the master
frog will wake from rest and wave
his orchestral baton, the sassafras will
cleanse the blood and tune the plumb
ing up to plumb, the depth and tex
ture of the mud will make the good
roads movement hum, the sober mind
ed will revert to sacrifices, hits and
bunts, and the lady in the two-slit
skirt will show us both her legs at
once.
Fools caps will be worm very
| low this year, and will rest upon
tn eright ear with the raking effect
of the new women's hats. Ambas
sador Page will be big joker, and the
Mexican navy will be little joker.
There will be almost no jokes at home
this year.
April 10 will be Good Friday, when
it is confidently expected that Presi-
dent Huerta will be good and resign.
Easter will come on the 18th. The
Easter STYLES are very becoming this
wear. skirts are to have Sits on each
side, to keep the legs ventilated, and
hats, which have been pressing the
right ear down against the head and
eonfiuing hearing TO the left side, are
to have a give-hole in them through
which the ear rendered useless by
last years styles is to come out in
an upright position On the 18th the
anniversary of the beginning of the
American War of Independence viii
be celebrated by the suffragettes, whe