Life — April 8, 1909 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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| a renaissance concealed about your person, this | only makes you the more uncomfortable. e This climate and this age is no place to get i RY | A rid of a renaissance. For this purpose, we nced to go back to the days of Thcocritus. i It is the s Spring has only one joy. when a man can buy a new suit and displa his friends and neighbors. His fall suit idly covered up by an overcoat, and no one hr the difference. But to issue forth some bright Spring orn ing, clad in brilliant colors, gives one that spick- and-span feeling that is almost worth all the trouble one has had to bring Spring on. It is true that about an hour later, when you caught in the rain, you don’t feel quite so good about it. But no joy is wholly unalloyed. If it were, doubtless we would also soon tire of it— Lippincott’s, Spring, O Spring! Up to the present time, it has been the poet's peculiar privilege to sing of the Spring, as if no one else had any right to say anything about it The poet has expressed his thoughts horticul- turally and emotionally, and, in fact, with all the = ° . reckless-abandon of one who assumes that he a? in United States alone has the whole field to himself. Others, however, have their rights in the prem- \ ises, and should regard it as a sacred duty to tell are due to what they know about the Spring from their own F standpoint. Personally, I have long been convinced that , the Spring is not what it has been sung up to be. a It usually begins with a cold in the head, which B 1 iz: gradually gets down into the chest, and is fol- lowed by chills and fever. It is also the period . - ¢ were Kilikd ‘Gy: the: ve when the Christmas bills have to be paid, and 200,000 Persons were killed by the recent when the railroads issue new timetables, which E. it. Italy. ation offer alluring prospects, but no free passe: : Earthquake it Italy, and the nations of the One of the principal trademarks of Spring is a . P : 2 se lamb bounding over the lea, I have never owned world are aroused to noble self a lea myself, but if I could afford one I should ig (» \ SACPREES TA a " , do something else with it besides having a lamb i sacrifice in an endeavor to allay bound over it, just to please a few sentimental- ns t . o~ ae 4 . _— ists, I should put a mortgage on it, at least, or - . " the sufferings. Yet fully asoMany: ats that next winter, when my neighbor's invali¢ 7 sig i i wife has to have fresh eggs, I ca dip down Naa year from Tuberculosis. Think of it! into the sawdust and supply her crying needs. As for the lamb, instead of letting him bound 4 to please himself, I would keep him bound over | woe Read in the until_next winter to keep the peace, when I ; would sell him for what he is now, thus, so to ‘ y ° - speak, taking by the back lock. | 3 RH Metropolitan Magazine As for what the poets have said about the | Spring, most of them have lied about it shame- | { lessly. an the Spring, for example, the young the series of articles which has been prepared and man's fancy does not necessarily . is a + Hf i If it did x probably mesesearily {ure ies which show that Tuberculosis is a communicable, desirable to turn to, as most of the young women preventable and curable disease. The series will run ave either gone to Europe, or are busy packing | { b 5s eee 3} , up forthe summer seagon, “Asra-mattercot face through several issues. The first, in Aprit, by if the young man has a fancy at all, which in } QO. F. LEWIS, oF tHE CHARITY ORGANIZATION OF these days is extremely improbable, he is busy F10"Vone will deal with with it in some poolroom, or is trying to get a f New York will deal wit line on the baseball averages. | 4 q The Spring is the season when you wear your | ’ THE CAUSES OF CONSUMPTION winter flannels until you are parboiled, and then, having removed them, freeze to death in the few F days after. It is a season when, instead of hav- The articles will be fully illustrated with striking chart ing a fancy that lightly turns to love, you are . : ; maile c are $ G y ¢ reader in so weary that you cannot drag one foor after , comparisons and tables, and will convey to th ; the other without a feeling of regret. It is a \| the simplest manner all that modern medical science with season when your spine resembles a wet rag, and | +e is abl ae fon ve s adv w years is able pout the only craving you have is one for Me) its marvellous advancement of the past few y patent medicines. % to teach in regard to the cause, prevention It is true that in the Spring the buds burst i and all Nature begins to smile. But this only and scureiol: Tuberculosis: seravates your own complaint. For if you have CONSUMPTION CAN BE AVOIDED AND CURED Place Your Order for the Entire Series at once. The APRIL Issue will be quickly sold out. THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE 3 WEST 29th STREET, NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com