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Show THE RAGTIME MUSE ROUND THE TEAR. Oh, whv can't wa name, on a similar plan. Our months as they do In poetic Japan. Beginning with April the year's better birth When Kurydlce revisits the -Mirth? Let April, then, be the "Month of Buds." Or of "Apple Blossoms," or "New Spring Tuids." Let May be the "Season of Building Neete," Or of "New Straw Hats and Discarded Vesta." June, of Yourae, Is the "Month of Brides, Of "Roses and Piles." and more besides. July Is the "Month of the Urchin' him It brings the. right to fish and swim. August, the ''Month of the Ripening Crops," , Or the "Dog and the Wildly Shooting VI Tops." . September "Bringer of Oarnered Wheat." And "The Annual Rise In the Price of Meat." Saddest of all. October we'd name, "The Month of the End of the National Game." November "Month of the Bare Brawn Trees,' Of "Influenza and Rheumy Knees." Of course, December's the "Month of Joy Of the "Eternal Olrt and Boy." January' the "Month of 8now," "Resolutions and Bills and Woe." February, with blliaarda dread. "The Month Whoae Name Were Batter fnaald." Then gusty March, with bugle and drum. And windy promise of good to come. And boasta of paat performances great We'll call the "Month of tha Candidate." |