Of course, all this has just been leading up to the point I want to
make,--that something more ought to be written about Spring. When you
consider that every one, including myself, agrees that _nothing_ more
should be written about it, I think that I have done rather well to
prove as much as I have so far. And, having got this deep into the
thing, I can't very well draw back now.
Well then, Spring is a great season. Nobody will gainsay me that.
Without it, we should crash right from Winter into Summer with no
chance to shift to light-weight underwear. I could write a whole piece
about that phase of it alone, and, if I were pressed for things to
say, I myself could enlarge on it now, making up imaginary
conversation of people who have been caught in balbriggans by the
first sweltering day of summer. But I have so many more things to say
about Spring that I can't stop to bother with deadwood like that. Such
literary fillerbusting should be left to those who are not so full of
their subject as I am.
In preparing for this article, I thought it best to look up a little
on the technical side of Spring, about which so little is known, at
least by me. And, would you believe it, the Encyclopedia Britannica,
which claims in its advertisements not only to make its readers
presidents of the Boards of Directors of any companies they may
select, but also shows how easy it would be for Grandpa or Little Edna
to carry the whole set about from room to room, if, by any possible
chance they should ever want to, this same Encyclopedia Britannica
makes no reference to Spring, except incidentally, along with Bed
Springs and Bubbling Springs.
This slight of one of our most popular seasons is probably due to the
fact that Spring is not exclusively a British product and was not
invented by a Briton. Had Spring been fortunate enough to have had the
Second Earl of Stropshire-Stropshire-Stropshire as one of its
founders, the Britannica could probably have seen its way clear to
give it a five-page article, signed by the Curator of the Jade
Department in the British Museum, and illustrated with colored plates,
showing the effect of Spring on the vertical and transverse sections
of the stamen of the South African Euphorbiceæ.
I was what you might, but probably wouldn't, call stunned at not
finding anything about the Season of Love in the encyclopedia, for
without that assistance what sort of a scientific article could I do
on the subject? I am not good at improvising as I go along, especially
in astronomical matters. But we Americans are not so easily thwarted.
Quick as a wink I looked up "Equinox."
There is a renewed agitation of late to abolish Latin from our
curricula. Had I not known my Latin I never could have figured out
what "equinox" meant, and this article would never have been written.
Take that, Mr. Flexner!
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