Show r I Spring Fever I i c By JOHN BLAKE Inasmuch as for thousands of years the Inhabitants Inhabitants inhabitants tants of most sections of ot the world have sowed their crops In the spring it Is but natural that within us the season stirs the tha Instinct to be up UI and doing In all temperate climates the people waken with the grass and the trees they feel within them a desire to get something accomplished that is backed with the energy to accomplish it It It is not because she knows that spring is housecleaning housecleaning house- house cleaning time that the housewife Is impelled to work with with br broom om and dust pan to ba have ve the rugs hung out on on the line Une and to apply soap and t water w ter to e every portion ot of her H r dwelling h That Is a a. task she can no more help performing if she has been brought up in the old-fashioned old way than the he robin can help heip hunting for mud and anil twigs with which to build her nest I II Hundreds I of suburban residents busy their gardens as soon as the frost fros Js s ou out of the ground because because- something something- drives them outdoors and drives es them to work when they get there Th That t t Is the real spring fever The ener energy that was stored up through the winter is loosed In vegetable and animal life alike nUke S Even Kven the old feel the stir in their blood and no longer do the tasks that once appalled appall 4 seem hopeless v For Tor all this there Is possibly a chemical cause I The warmth makes life UCe outdoors possible the air I that one orie breathes outdoors fills file the blood with new forces and the human creature finds himself suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly eager to be te doing something And In that soft air of spring may reside some element of which we know nothing some some electrical or chemical substance that sets the whole system in action What this Is we do not know But we do know l that spring Is a q time when there is abundance of ot will to plan great plans and plenty of strength In store at least to begin themA them I A man who looks at atthe the future despairingly In spring spring- is lost to all hope hopt To mako make this spring fever er last the whole year through Is a difficult mat matter er a and d perhaps It Is not nece necessary sary nut hut if It we make mak enough plans when the eagerness to plan Is on us we sh shall ll give ourselves enough work to do do through the summer and autumn and winter to keep us busy and that is the Important thing Copyright right 1925 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |