Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1919 — GOODBY TO FATHER WINTER [ARTICLE]

GOODBY TO FATHER WINTER

No Doubt That Spring la Here, With , AII the Joyousness That the Season Should Bring. __ 1 ' The harbingers of spring are numerous, though often obscure. It does not. take many warmish days at this time of the year to make the heart of animate Nature, including man. to throb with hope. We have been filled with forebodings. All of our mild December we said that the autumn was lingering long this year. In equally mild January we prognosticated that we would “get it” tn February. We are still a little fearful that old Father Winter may have some ice and snow for us In his storehouse and so we try not to be too forward looking. But a complete plan of the garden drawn to a scale, with every radish and bean and cahliage located Is not rushing the season, and It is a mighty pleasant thing to make out these days. Stewart Edward White says he always gets out his book of flies in February, furbishes up the old ones and replaces the missing favorites, and dreams, the while, of pools and rapids. The housekeeper sighs at the sight of grimy wall paper and theni hopefully “begins to houseclean the spare room. A few hopeful robins came back this week, as well as some blackbirds. They say the skunk cabbages are blooming along Big Darby’s rocky shore. Spring is on tlie way!—Ohio State Journal.