SEASONABLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 92, 25 April 1913, Page 4

SEASONABLE.

The weather is such an everyday occurrence that people forget to return thanks for the blessings that the proverbial Clerk bestows upon them. Beyond an occasional remark concerning the unprecedentedly favourable season that has been allotted to Stratford and district, little is heard of the exceptional spell of “made-to-order” material that it has been our good fortune to have experienced for the whole of the present year—a third of which, it must be remembered, has passed by. Just now the nights are inclined to be frosty, and keen is the air, but the days are warm' and ' bright as a rule, and the few “bit busters,” as the Scotchman would say, that visited- us several weeks ago are quite forgiven for their wanton playfulness The touches of frost are stated to have nipped the young grass and checked growth to a certain extent, but this has not so far been appreciably felt. The fact that the factory returns are this season better titan anything else recorded for years is proof positive of the exceeding kindness of the Fates that govern the work between earth and sky. Friend Bates even, does not threaten to disturb our sweet reasonableness, and it would almost appear that we must go on enjoying the good things of the gods. All this accounts for the fact that the Mountain has not put on his considering cap of white. When he does, let ns all beware I