HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-03-19, Page 3WIKI)1`,11ESD.A,Y, MAR(11-1 19, 1953
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bili)
The Ides of MVlarch are past
At last.
But whether you can say it's
Spring
's another thing:
a: * *
The 17th of Ireland has come
-sand gone. The equinox (from the
Latin equus-horse, and no's -night;
loosely translated—nightmare) is
upon us. Tomorrow, or the day
:arfter, or maybe six weeks from
now, it'll be Spring.
* * n:
One cannot help but admire the
'dour reluctance with which Can-
•n.da relinquishes her clutch on the
National Season—winter. Spring is
greeted with all the enthusiasm a
new potion for everlasting life
'would arouse at an undertakers'
convention.
*
And that's as it should be. You
can't gambol in the woods like a
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Botticelli maiden, just because it's
the 21st of March. Not unless you
are able to gambol in goloshes.
Come to think of it, some of those
Italian Iprimaveras would have
looked better in goloshes. Foot
like a hand, some of them had.
* * s:
Maybe the jonquils are lovely
in Paris, and the first crocus has
inspired a letter to The Tunes, in
England, Maybe the chinook has
breathed lushly on Red Deer, Alt.
Maybe in such tropical Ontario
centres as Blenheim or Tilbury
there is a hint of intoxication in
the air. But I'll wager that in
Renfrew, and Atikokan, and Br-
acebridge, there'll be nobody run-
ning around in his bare feet on
what the calendar claims is the
first day of Spring.
* *.*
Poet T. S. Eliot, the Edgar
Guest of the eggheads, opined
that "April is the cruellest month".
Maybe so. But I doubt if he'd have
been so dogmatic if he'd ever
taken a stroll in the True North
Strong and Free some "first day
of spring" in one of those March
zephyrs that would freeze the
brains of a brass monkey.
* * *
For any honest, thin -blooded
Carnadian, March is 31 days of
pure misery. He's just about at the
end of his tether, anyway, after a
gruelling, four-month, toe -to -toe
slugfest with that capable heavy-
weight. Old Man Winter. He's
punchy, still in there only through
sheer fighting instinct. So what's
he supposed to do just because
March 21st is the first day of
Spring? Peel off his long -handled
underwear, stick a daffodil behind
his ear and launch into Mendel-
ssohn's Spring Song?
* * *
Not likely. It's much more pro-
bable that he'll contemplate the
occasion with the gloomy cdispair
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of a toper trapped in a tea-party,
For March is a month to try men's
souls.
*
The body, racked by a succes-
sion of bouts with the 'flu, is cal-
ling feebly on its last reserves--
and
eserves—and getting no answer. The ward-
robe is a wreck. The mind is a
morass of income tax evasions,
monstrous fuel bills, and the cer-
tain knowledge that the muffler
and tailpipe on the car are eaten
through.
d: 4,
Domestic life is at its lowest
ebb in March. The kith have holes
in their rubber boots, which does
not prevent them tracking in en-
ough dirt to fill the St. Lawrence
Seaway. Their zippers are shot
their buttons are few and far be-,
tween, and they have only one
mitt left. Their whiter clothes are
so shabby their parents ignore
them in public, hoping other people
won't know whose kids they are.
* * *
Their mother is like a caged
leopard. Her nerves are rubbed
raw from mopping up pools of
water, looking for people's hats,
and listening to the syncopated
thump and rumble of the stoker.
She's sick to death of prying froz-
en sheets off the clothesline. Her
skin is becoming dried out, and
the housecleaning looms like some
fearsome monster. It's wise to
tread softly, and in wide circles,
around her.
***
Mind you, I'm not down on
Spring, as such. Give me a burst
of sunshine, a balmy breeze, and
a sight of green grass, and I'll be
quick as the next fellow to get
giddy and run off with a widow,
or whatever you're supposed to do
in the Spring.
a< * *
But when I know that the pile
of ashes in my cellar is four times
the size of the coal pile, and there-
's almost a foot of snow on my
front lawn, and I'm catching my
seventh cold of the winter, please,
if you value your life, don't come
up to me on March 21st and say
brightly: "Well, first day of Spr-
ing, eh."
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