| Show SEPTEMBER DAYS IN UTAHAn I An Autumn Ride Through a Picturesque Garden Spot Where Nature Smiles in Her Fairest Mood To the lover of Nature In her most I winning and attractive mood there la I no time of the year so Inviting as the I golden September das The air Is soft and cool and provides a grateful tonic after the scorching heats of Bummer I I During the day the sky IH blue and cloudfiakcd at night the stars shine I with peculiar brilliancy Early frost I I heie and there Blain the foliage of trees and vines with rich autumn tints but the grass is still green and flowers of I I the season bloom In splendid opulence Many of the most favored beauty spots which during the summer months have been crowded With vlsllora arc now comparatively dosirtcd Holiday pleasure seekers no longer frequent the I resorts the music Is Hll nl no more Is heard the pottering of dancers feet or the merry laughter of the happy careless throng Those who turn their Steps towards those now quiet spota must do BO in the true spirit of Nature worshipers as It Is for such that Nature waits before donning her most enchanting I enchant-ing robes The camps In the canyons arc thinning thin-ning out nw the rumj > crs return to their homes and take up once mote the sober workaday duties of life The rocky gorges and cool ravines of the mountains moun-tains nn Inn or rounund with the vnlcou of happy cheerful life No longer sweet girlish laughter mingles with the music of the mountain streams No longer doth do-th over changing tones of the waterfalls water-falls peak to the attuned car of that multitude which no man can number and whisper serene thoughts of dc partod friends who are waiting on the 1 further shoro Horn and there may bo seen the blue smoke curling up from a solitary camp I fire and In a few soquenlcrod Hp6ts can still be found a patient angler or tho crude of a huntcrs rifle be heard But for the most part the busy restless throng is back at the desk and store and the school or already absorbed In the vortex of society Only those who love Nature for herself and are In eym Path with her various moods are left to worship at her altar The foregoing thoughts were aug soatcd by a brief trip made one day last vok to Fartnlnglon nnd the Lagoon La-goon The excursion trains bad been taken off and iftenB < irs were com I puratlvcly few The road runs through aBmlllng and prosperous farming country coun-try The scenery In exceedingly plctur I 1 esquo and tranqullilnf In Its effects A gentle haste spread over the landscape land-scape toward the hoilon the Lye fsS satlmlfd with a vision of peaceful country life the nil Is full of sweet scents and soothing Bounds On one Hide I arc the mountain wHh their foreground fore-ground of rolling foothills decked in Varied coloru grcen red purple and I gray Away to tho left beyond tho compact farms stretch the meadows and salt marshes and beyond these I shimmer the waters of the great lake In the remote distance arc the softened outlines of the lofty mountains which spring from the bosom of the mysterious mysteri-ous Inland sea As the train speeds along we pass through sweetsmelling alfalfa fields where the haymakers aro at work The road Is bordered here and there by graceful trees and tangled wild rose bushes Past cosy cottages and comfortable com-fortable farm houses we rush noisily and catch glimpses of rural affluence and contentment In the wellkept yardo and gardens nnd the general air of thrift apparent on every Bide Here and theic Is an old house with Its brick walls mellowed by years partially par-tially hidden umlor green vines with trim garden In front ample orchard to one aide and an oldfawhloned well behind be-hind In the yard a small Jersey calf Is peacefully browsing Over there Is a log cabin relic of early days and now we flush piat n brickyard 1 where stacks of fiery red bricks contrast with the vivid green around More farms with their protecting rows of poplars and coitomvoods more fields In which the cattle are munching contentedly and then the train stops at a quiet settlement settle-ment The houses stand In deep grassy yaids the slrr > pUi aro shaded by noble trees save for a little bustle around the station a Sabbath stillness pervades tho village We glance up a lane where overhanging trees form nn arch and catch a glimpse of a white meeting hoiific where three generations gather for worship and t Instruction Now wo run through whole fields of bright yel low Bunllowcra then through more peaceful homelike village until final ly I the truln cornea to a standstill at Lagoon Ktatlon The llttlu aistcr of the hills wears her loveliest aspect this September at ternoon The pellucid depths of the lake reflect back the iraccrled foliage Parterres of manyhued autumn flowers flow-ers make a brae display In the sequestered se-questered walks the sunlight filters through the grateful shade The pleasant pleas-ant sound of falling water greets the ear and the eye Is refreshed by the waxey brightness of the leaves which show that they at least have not suffered suf-fered from lack of moisture during the summer heat The pavilion so recently the scene of gaycty and excitement is deserted No ecstatic twostep or the delirious waltz There is a haunted air about the place which seems peopled with the ghosts of dead and gone flirtations and forgotten for-gotten summer woolnga And DO the hours speed all too swiftly swift-ly l the evening shadows lengthen and thu cool mountain breeze gently stirs the leaves And then is performed the wonder RO old yet over newthe miracle I mira-cle of the sunset The Gun a great red disk sinks slowly to his rest beyond the western mountain peaks as In the Unnumbered ages before the firot footfall foot-fall of primeval man pressed the golden sand on the shores of the prehistoric sea C II S |
