Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1905 — THE BUSY SEASON. [ARTICLE]

THE BUSY SEASON.

In the spring a woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of Easter hats, while her weary, careworn husband thinks a lot and murtners “Rats]” In the spring the baseball rooter give thuphis 50 cents, and the small boy sees the battle through a knothole in the fence. In the spring a thinner shadow haunts the poet’s pocketbook, and be casts upon each nickel a lean and hungry look. In the spring a brighter yellow blush is on the butterine, and boarders are suspicious of the azure-tinted cream. In the spring the festive angler from the ground extracts a worm, and with fiendish glee impales it on a hook that makes it squirm. In the spring the jolly farmer with a chuckle doth begin painting letters on a shingle: “Summer Boarders Taken In.” The bunko man gets busy—the kite is on the string—thus we realize there’s always something doin’ in the spring.