Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-07

tEntten spesiafiy fof The Bulletin.,l
 "pid ye everssse setch ; spriAg?"
 That's the ddessicn of the hour in the csuntry ana on the fafns One hears t from all sides. from all ages and condi- tlsas 6f fhen. I
 Did ye -ever ste neaen a. sptihg?"
 wei, takiag the uuestiofi literally. | don't think ever did Nef de ! suppoa anyone else ever Gid. For the reason that ho two sezsohs arc ever exactly alike. indeed, no two things fH hAtufe ate ever exactly alike, No t~1 pine Gees arc ex- zctiy alike No two stra~befffse are exs setly alike. No two faces are exactly alike. There used to be pair of tEinb h My neishtofh6od whom ntAe of the neikhBofs e6uid tell apart. But their mother could fsii Susan ffohh Sarah as fSf away 4s she could Zee them Why, 7. shs used te say. '4hey'fe as different As can De-"
 Nassfs se.ss ts hass eersaia syp.s te which She asfhefes with some eioaenees But, within tlse permissible range of type variation, she ffnds almost iffihite room for cteztAhs the unlike in the Ike. Thia is as tfde of weather and of seasons as | of trees Of stones of animals.
 | AS one star diffefeth from another in glory, so one spring diffeSeth from an cthef in tfibdiation. So far as the fASstd- CT Is concerned one spring may be called | the frying pan and another the fire It makes small difference into which hS | junips-of. rather. Is dumped Whatevef the year Annc D6nlni; whatever the century: the spfink- svefy spring lis td hifn season Of care. anxiety selicitAde of annoyance. vexation, Irritation; oi | mingled dejeetion and disappointment often combining into serfietnine akin td despair; and seemingly born of actual malignity.
 when was c small bsy attending tho distfact, school and had to speak a piece" every Friday, soon learned tha, sornethihs on the efder of Spring, spring beautiful spring" pleased the virgin fancy of the sentimental spinster who had charge of the feffule and the Reward. | of-merit'' cards So I used to put on at eherubic an expression as is Posstbie foI the face of a dfithff- g6-hshing young, ster. drone off the silly shyfaes from ths dais and then. when released from ths
 necessity of hyp1crisy. plunge outdoor
 and stick my tongue in my cheek and just fairly squeSi.
 l lou see, even tnen k1eT how Ell tidefs fet SB6ut spfing ana what ii, father. especially, tn6oEht about 1t th6ugh. like a prudent parent, he faucl
 nioiiiHed his iahgu4ge in niy bsesence
 sihce then I have had iifst-hand sxbzri snce of the, fafrnologicaiiy sfeakint
 primal spring duties of pfewing afis
 planting, etc. Nor do see any eaf3hi,
 reason why the ebifish nave long fieli
 privately should not be expressed Dubiie
 ty. Within the limits of what is it |, ptint," of course.
 That opihisa is, adopting the form 5 l the bishops famous dietun about tn strawbeffy. that ''doubtiess God niiEh ! have made better berry but doubkies He never did" that doubtless God fnieh 1. have made a rnesner season than sprfnl } but aoubtiess He hevef did
 : In these days of the ferninizatioi1 Of lit : .fatare and life, 1t is queer to me that tn { on-ccfning woman's party hasn't but ii . It's platform a perefnpt5ry denand Una spring be no longer alluded to as 'tshe. That's the prohoun by which the seaso Is almost always perSonfsied. Artists a
 well as poets have fallen into the haBi Did you ever see fancy picture of Abr 5 in an alnahae, wasn't It always somewhat misty but much aiidfihg maid t sn? Yet 1t Is hard to conceive of a inor ! dastafdly Insult to any sex 7 A fei e years experience and few minutes rs : Election would lead fisost any farmer fia K to conclude that the first persShifyink {