Show DOGGONE KANSAS Texas Editors Dream Broken Y a Kansas Cold Wave Fort Worth Record yesterday a joy Sunshiny a brides a race face and sweet as asa asa a baby fresh the bath It a day for th there re was a alf lf lingering gering feel of rost but there WAS a challenge of spring in the sm smell of the theair air aJr You could almost herthe hear the sap start starting Ingin ing in the peach perach trees and the mother 1 icae ete bush seemed to be trying to pro proclaim proclaim claim the horning tw bud The Tha housewife went out and looked at atthe atthe the sweet peas and hummed a song under hEr breath The farmer mai examined his seed corn and whistled a tune The small boy tarrIed by tim the window of the sportIng goods store and examined the fishing tackle The weather wise had predicted rain and th people who are early In bed went to sleep The dry goods man groaned and the milliner wished she were a man manso manso so she could say what she wished Only the shoe men chuckled and wished he had hada a bigger stock of rubbers The school schoolchildren schoolchildren children were glad and hoped for a soaker to keep them at home The knew better He had got home In the wee small hours wIth a clear moon and bright ht stars lighting his wobbly way When the folks waked up it was a lIttle cloudy and the day seemed doomed Breakfast was glum and dour The biscuits were soggy the coffee was drug druggy rug gy and the mUk was a sour It was all slush and b bad d words getting to the ears eals Then the mIracle The sun climbed over the fog bank In Inthe inthe the east ast and It was resolved Into sweet vapors The washerwoman hung out the clothes the tho rooster crowed and the do dog chased hIs tail talt The housewife turned the hose on the front steps and let th the fire n the grate dIe down downA A bird and the whole of creation thrilled Don Doan town ton the dry goods merchant grinned The milliner put away h he win winter ter hats marked down and bro ight ht out the pring confections marked ip po The shoe iran ITan threw the rubbers in a bo box and put In the show window The butcher telephoned to the packing house ouse for lamb and wondered where he could fInd some mint The haberdasher got out aut his new ties tics and white v vests antI and the tailor tacked up his spring style sheet Anon milady came tripping ripping along and the clerks got busy with parasols and stuff The afternoon fairly sung Itself Into 1 a delirium and the night carne came down like an Intangible fleece that was golden goldan wIth the sunset ind then sIlver as the moon moonlight light pinned against the sky with a mil million lion diamonds Love walked abroad flaked anti and us un and tent lent swift arrows Into throbbing hearts bearta Lullabies and kisee filled the cup n ni joy and God Cod his benediction Oh It was glorious And then by S 8 a howling norther carne came swooping down from I Kansas Doggone 1 Kansas |