Deceptive Spring.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7000, 1 November 1890, Page 1

Deceptive Spring.

4 " The season when to come and when to go, To sing or cease to Bing we never know." Pope. Gentle spring is once more with us. It recurs every year, and the unvarying phenomena iB explained by what we know of the sun's or earth's motion. This is the season which arouse3 the enthusiasm of mankind by the charms of the surrounding beauty and variety of effect. We behold budding and flowering trees, flowers, plants, saplings and other branches grow with force and luxuriance, diffusing beauty which delights the senses and chsrms the mind. Thompson pathetically exclaims : — "Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness come, And from the bosom of your dropping cloud Upoa our plains descend." Milton, equally enraptured, calls it : — " The seasons prime for sweetest scents and airs." Nature involuntarily rouses the heart to a pitch of enthusiasm, and it is therefore not surprising that poets and artists emulated in singing the boundless praises of beautiful spring. The German poets of all ages gave vent to their feelings by a panegyric — An den wundershoenen Friihling— Leise zieht durch mein Gemtith Liebliches Gelaute Klinge, kleines Friihlingslied, Kling hinausin's Weite ! The French with similar emphasis exclaims — Toutrenaitala vie Aux rayons du printemps, Et dans nofcre ame ravie Exhale unparfum d'amour. Thus the fair spring has ever been extolled, while, alas, it has lured countless thousands of victims to their unprepared graves. Spring in its gaudy disguise is the moat treacherous and deceptive of the seasons. Under every blade of bounding grass iB the germ of death. Beneath the budding tree, alas, lurlrs the demon of sicknesß. Malarial poisons are drawn in with every breath, and the germs oi disease that are absorbed in innumerable ways all prove the dangerous nature of the season that separates winter and summer, It requires the most powerful constitution to successfully repel the poisonous atmosphere. Thus thousands are every epring nipped in the bloom of beauty, wit anc youth, and carried to that bourne whenc< no mortal returns! This is the seasor where a restorative is absolutely necessavj to fortify the Byatem, and throw oi the enemies of health. No doub:

r you divine the restorative which i'b 0 needed. That remedy is Warner's safe 1 cure, which, by its action on the vital organs, banishes dull care and pain, reii moves the languid sensations, creates an t appetite, purifies and enricheß the blood, 8 and restores health and happiness when the a body is bowed with pain, and when life e seems a burden too great to bear. It is . used by rich and poor alike with infallible , success. Says Mr W. Howard Leonard, t M.L.A., of Collins street, Melbourne, the b popular member for Carlton, under very e recent date : — " I have repeatedly taken j Warner's safe cure when afflicted, with j such remarkable success that the result t fully justifies me in attesting to its high f curative properties." Voluntary attesta--5 tions from influential sources like the above could be quoted ad infmitum, and | [ should bo the means in pointing out with emphasis the guide to health. It is time ! that the deceptive praises of artist and poet are exposed in all their sophistic fallacy, for prompt action alone will avert impendi ing disaster, and avoid the subtle perils of j "deceptive spring."

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