New Britain herald., 1928-03-24

tilIlleS SlltleS temptatlOn to SaWn.
 Gone is Winter, the icy goddess of
 the cold caress. Tapping at the port als of consciousness is the desire to let up in the mad race for existence,
 10 cast aside responsibilities and
 stand languidly in the sun while the
 world whirls past.
 Spring fever" is real. It affects
 us all. Greening golf courses beckon to the business man to lay aside his statistics and come forth and eXult Balmy air currents whisper an in Nltatlon to stroll out into the coun-
 try and see the pussy willows, the harblngers Of warmer days, push their silver coated heads into the
 sunlight. Mellow notes from the threats of birds who dared the ele-
 ments in the north are heard occa- slonally in timid challenge to Winters dying efforts to hold sway The body cries for relaxation, the soul yearns for a spot under an apple tree where it may commune with nature while fleecy clouds drift lazily toward the horizon. The 1 impulse to quit work and listen to the voice Of wanderlust is strong. 1 Fair meadows just over the hill with hints of the blossoms that are vet to come, brooks that have thrown off l their shackles of ice, freshening l bark on the trees, the scent of the
 greensWard, all weave a magic spell in the mind and send pleasant mes
 sages on every breeze that blows. Spring is here. Ho hum.
 If there is one thing We hate more | than another it is eating while some one is using telephone in the same roon. We will re-state our hatred. | 1t is TRYING to eat while someone
 IS using a telephone in the same
 room. The fiend who first thought of locating telephones in dining rooms | should be made to eat all his re- maining meals under a shower of cne-sided conversations into phone
 mouthpieces. and We guarantee that 1 he would not last long under the l torture.
 i Well, as We started out to say, a week ago Wc suddenly developed 1 what we thought was a canker upon our agile and over-ready tongue, and the pleasure Of mastication took a sudden slump to we'll below the zero mark. No doubt it would soon heal. We thought, and We could chew again. But it did not heal. Instead, ! it grew worse, and We soon found that the trouble lay in a tooth which we had broken. We didn't know Of l it when the break occurred, but we were feeling it by now whenever we | took into our mouth, or even when We swallowed nothing more substan-
 tial than air.
 i If We chewod on that side the | food rubbed against the raw spot 1 and sent dclicately calculated pains ! through our mouth. And if we
 chewed on the other side our tongue
 was forced harder against the jag ged tooth and the agony was. multi piled tentold.
 This had been going on for several 1 days before the cause was finally discovered and corrected, and then at last We were ready for a square meal. But just as we were in the | very act of seating ourselves at the table. the phone rang and another
 member of the household spent the
 entire meal period yessing and no- | ing into the mouthpiece, effectively spelling the first chance We had had 1 in week 10 enjoy a meal.
 l We stood it as long as we could, | then flung down our eating utensils and stalked angrily from the room, slamming all reachable doors as We
 went and winding up by Ringing a
 chair at q picture. The shot missed ! it's mark, but if we get much prac-
 tice at this sort of thing our aim is
 going to improve. and then we are
 going to start suing the telephone
 company for the damage to our fur nlture.