ome ness spring he more to the point for most of us the hate and picked. warn tony bad) moment. "Aa it te now, @ for wnscusonably Vound wider the weight of fur coats while Baster.
nut in thin. spring costumes ta ae likely Star "te be chit But as we were about to remark, economical resolu yns_and comi mit the malady of spring fever is abroad in the land and the first attacks are the severest. It shows itself in many ways according to the age and sex of the victim, the only universal symptom being the all manner of extravagances, the wilder because of their previous repression.
Men who have held their noses to the grindstone of business during the winter suddenly begin to realize the possibilities of marked disinclination to work, golf and start negotiations for School becomes a, prison, the office houseboats, It begins to look as if torture-hall, housekeeping the when joy and duty clashed duty most irksome of, occupations, The would certainly be smashed. most respectable of men suddenly But certain mundane considera-desire to go pirating, or fishing, ions keep the world nearer normal or at least golfing. Exemplary tha at first thought would seem and mothers regard their possible in the face of this prevalent routine with disgust. With-disease, For one thing a cold snap out a blush they contemplate the usually arrives providentially and possibility of abandoning their we find that we were wise not to offspring and starting out upon the have thrown away all our winter gypsy trail with a partner who may woollies. not happen to be the same as the And the tailors are too busy to make all the clothes we one for whom they have poured the thought we were going to need, and morning tea or coffee day after day. yochow we manage to do without The meckert of little boys and the them. The children, too, have swt of little girls loiter along worked through that first wild, the way to school, hunting for frantic madness of spring and are spring posies and don't care how reconciled to go on with Tate they are. studies, especially as the Other of the prominent signs that. athletic i iruectors have an engross spring is com-om-om-om-erning, a sing programme for the approaching ists warble, is the term.
'Soon we shall be able to renaissance of certain games, mar-take' the spring for granted and tops, hoops. Little girls take the summer ai a mere matter of their dolls to the country, or at|course.
But O, these first spring Jeast transplant their belongings to|days!
Ennervating as they are, garden, Amahs and. nurses|there ix something delicious with requests to "take j their balminess, in the abandon they horrid "hot clothes." bring. Were it not for them we Strong-minded women who have determined not to buy new costumes but to make last seasons' over, other hardheaded business of suddenly fly in the face of their were the only things that counted.
A little stove, a chair or two, perhaps a cat, perhaps a child playing on the Aoor, a faded calen-Jdar, several worn mementoes of some friendly reunion, and the aroma of simmering soup, all seem secondary to the spell of the loom. The operators work f: om dawn unt dark, standing at their task. Their life is centred about weaving, and they find complete satisfaction in executing beautiful work. Also, they bring a very high order of textile intelligence to solving the innumerable weaving problems that
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