Show base ball fever I 1 feel it coming on again this spring it always gets me just about this time it steals upon me softly and it says f the game Is called at 3 0 clock now cl mb I 1 squirm about and swear I 1 will not budge the demon grabs me madly by the hair next n louts I 1 am rusl ing for a car and when the umpire bawls play ball I 1 m there my office boy Is acting rather strange im I 1 m dreadfully afraid hes he s got it too but it if he gets away this year I 1 know that boy must think up something that Is new he lost grandmothers last year sixteen times his s ster s wedding happened once a hiew week eek and now I 1 know from how he lolls around he ile s planning up son e scheme to make a sneak oh well this working all the time Is hard and yet I 1 must pitch in today and dig T there here s sev ral most important matters up and one of them Is aswell well it s pretty big excuse me please tl ti e telephone doth ring what s thata oh 0 I 1 cannot go to day he is you re sure that he will pitch the game well yes I 1 think III join you right a vay P S the editor requests that you fin ish this to suit yourself uncle by ey leavea leaves word that her intended to write another stanza but unexpectedly was called out on business S ph the sincere man can accomplish much h r some people are like crows very noisy and little thought of u u r A cracked bell and a cracked man always give forth unpleasant utter ances ft are always told great secrete themselves within a heart and have no tongue to break the holy silence A tr nothing rests a city man so much after having the din of the city in his ears all day as the sweet gushing song of a brook crooning its way through fern decked banks and oer er mossy stones attract ons beyond the alps lies italy amid the fragrant breeze and speaking of the fragrance there la Is also limburg cheese 0 harp strums spring Is 19 certainly putting out some very fine display advertising r h r the trouble with scolds is that after they have given you a piece of their minds they always have plenty left is r r sometimes the small boy who goes fishing on sunday and doern doesn t catch anything catches something when he gets home b no man Is guilty until h his Is wife catches him at it and then oftentimes she prefers to believe him rather than the cuckoo clock the wise parson will preach special sermons for young ladies and in this way draw not only the young ladies but all the unmarried men in town Is it telling your bachelor friend that your wife always cures your headache by rubbing it away Is slight consola tion for the b t f especially when your wife is absent on her vacation fly time oh the summer time Is near it Is time tor for flies files I 1 fear tl TI ere was one came on today in his buzzing sort of way lit upon my nose and said ho what makes this smeller red its time for flies on their never ceasing raid in the butter they will wade in the milk they 11 fall fail and die in the coffee and the pie on the bald man s head they 11 II skate at a very frisky rate it a time tor for flies oh the will lie ile on fhe the chair to catch the fly S ster s beau will come along all the world will be a song then he 11 s t in it the goose oh my goodness turn me loose it 0 time for flies danger ahead kissing Is infectious contagious and delirious it infects the sweetest and prettiest of young ladles ladies and spreads among all her acquaintances As for the delirious part quite frequently both parties to the kissing game are insane on this one subject and to make kissing the more dangerous it very frequently leads to matrimony |