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Show Summertime It wa a (i::"v ci wis-tor, with its threatened outbreaks in Enrorc, ;:r.-.i s hvi !. o'.il spring, but this the good old s'-n-ir.cr.in;'.'. Jsio is. short and time is fleeting, and why ' should v.e bs ;i!v;rys ia a hurry and nursing a perpetual worry ? i.s- l D),.i;li v.v :r.v;ecl into our B. V. D.'s and this month n? ouithi t:,ke a icssi.si from the weather and slip out of our long iu-cs-O'ii ss.'-tsi times ;:nd go dashing headlong to the open t-a.-ltu v., wh.'ro the June grass is lush and the buds use snssv.1' v. joyously as before the kaiser descended upon I S'iii's., hi '; it.-riro.; in his wake such a scourge of plagues :. i v. oii'st hsve ir.ut'.o csriy Kgypt appear a pleasant paradise by cos -parlsou. V. e've i v. .! scci: -tor.v;d to look upon life darkly. We h ive h.v, wisis soil rumors of wars. We have known suf-ixivr.i.y suf-ixivr.i.y of i vi! sssi di ;.5i. Our minds are weary of the tin-moil r.r.,-1 the :'. We Iim-jf 1'cr the quiet ways we knew heiovo ihe wv.r. An.l ilr.mc ssor.nier is knocking at the door p.ml b:::i!i;;r r.s c.o -i '.! cr.iv r.sio ; for a time; is inviting us to biriot o.ir p v.'k-xit ii's, to.s aside the problems that we lu. rot icsi rUc !o solve and i'o a-summering. An;! 1 a vi-s p-ssi who will listen. There' is some-Ihir.s some-Ihir.s i:i tie t-Cini'i! ih:.t demands relaxation. It is not by arfi;! :r xh-.-.i ih- :.i;s -ros essd the steamboat lines run excel'.-ions Cnss .'s.s: ! ;r,Umber; it is not by chance that vc se.is'os r-i.l :v.n.:s-;.'.i reports r.re in full blast then, that the s'.'hoi s . iv I-;, , ; ti-,e ph.yjrrounds open. When the s'.m :. his'o. Uc )'. :;:r;ini to mental effort is low. Even the f. r:: : u ' s is. ih. iicat of summer pauses for bu rs, a v.. 'i ii: s'S'ii's ( '' harvest and fall plowing, and ail t'le K' -t o: -", ,' t;t!:o ii:s iiint and do likewise. it is si.isr,..' ", '-. thermometer, if not the al- ni; l-s'v; s i.. ! ; . . :' Vs, ii;; for a care, a fig for woe; lei iiio v.- '. , ! !:, , K 'iss wr!d go" until fall breezes blow. |