Evening star., 1926-03-21
Spring Signs About the Same This Year,
Including Speed in the Various Leagues
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

= GeneraI Cleanup, the grea
~ teacher Of that famous mod.
~ ern dance. the Hygiene, once
n u wrote in my Aunt Eata's guest
book.
"ln the Spring young mans fancy
Turns toward the income tax,
Through his wife's Spring.cleaning
pants he
nile she's making nasty crac ks"
And how true that lovely po etry
IS, come home to me this 81 inst. OF
March when George. that's my hus-
band, asked was there anything he
could do to help me with my Spring.
cleaning that I was conner start to-
morrow. He says this from the little
island his chair made IN the middle
OF the room and the morning papers,
and without any doubt he expected
where would Radio back to sign off,
didn't need him.
But not me. Well. l thought. for
rrying out loudi Here he actually
asks to help, why not give him the
shock of his life and take him up
an his own proposition, l know his
heart isn't strong, but nothing risked
nothing doing, as the feller says.
believe that Sunday or not / will
commence the house-cleaning right
this minute. | guess l felt that way
IN account the Spring was certainly
in the air. In fact, the spring off
IT our bed was out i'll the yard at
nat very minute on account that
new laundress of ours had sent them
home in the sheets if you get what
] mean, and heavens knows I never
had such thing in the house be-
fore. 1t certainly give me the spring
fever. I was scratching to death all
night.
Then there was other signs Of the
season around the house. For a
sample, all about the outside of the
house, from under the last rema.
nents Of the fast melting snow could
he seen coyly peeping the modest
newspapers and used oranges that
had been shyly sleeping there all
winter. While around the inside Of
the house a few early golf balls
were blooming on the mantel-shelf or
rnanteling on the blooming shelf, or
what have you?
Tender shoots Of young bamboo
f1shing-poles Of Georges own rails.
Ing had commenced to sprout in the
hall, and his old fishing clothes had
walked out Of the attic-apparently
by themselves. heavens knows that
was no task. they were strong
enough. Wherever a person stepped
imagine they was out in the great
open. public beaches where sands are
stones and feet are tender. the mar.
bles which Junior had dropped around
was so thick.
On Geo.'s desk the nature lovers
eye could easy spot the new. tender,
crumpled leaves Of the vernal income
tax return, and the first faint odor of
garden fertilizer filtered gently in
through the open window, which all
day SO far had been one OF these open
and shut propositions that you hear
so much about from the big butter.
and-cheese men of the country.
AS for the birds. their music was
wonderful. one bird was playing II
wanner 60 where you go" on q phono.
graph with a broken spring, another
further down the street was killing
Mendelssohn's Spring Song by inches. |
another. a cuckoo, I guess, had drag. |
ged a piano-organ in its dotage out to |
enjoy the sunshine. and the darned |
thing was wheeling about Sweet Rosie |
O'Grady in a asthmatic voice. The |
neighbor's cat had chased their gold. |
fishes up a tree in our yard. where |
they sat on a branch making angry,
swishing noises with their tails, while |
the cat sat below giving out a pre-. |
digested purr.
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TAKE it all in all and so forth and |
fifth, Spring was certainly right |
with US. and the craving to mess up
the house, turn the furniture on it's |
head, disturb the Winter slumbers Of |
the carpets, and send the song of the |
vacuumcleaner loud upon the air, was |
sure strong In me.
So I says to Geo., well, dear, It |
would be great il you would help. I'd |
just as soon start house cleaning today |
as tomorrow, sooner in fact, a whole |
day sooner. And then Geo. seeing |
he was. as the saying goes, hoisted |
with his own petard, or would Of been
if he wore one, well anyways, he |