Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1916 — Do Without March. [ARTICLE]

Do Without March.

In Mark Twain’s epic of boyhood Tom Sawyer sighs, “Oh, if I could only die temporarily!” On that convenient arrangement most of us would elect to have our temporary deaths fall in the month of March. March is neither hay nor grass; it is neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring. When it ought to rain it snows; when it ought to snow it freezes; when it ought to freeze it thaws. Where a road should be is a muddy slough of despond. Where the, sky should be is a tin-colored sheet of metal, oi°a hostile sector belches sleet and icy wind, says Boston Globe. Why not a bill in the legislature to abolish it?