Show I A Y GRAHAM BONN R t. t r AUTUMN ASTERS 1 l Vere Were all fond of or the autumn said slid the 11 Stalked Red or Stemmed Purple Aster As- As Aster As- As ter t r though some of us sta stay around longer than thun others of us us-if us If that Is the correct wa way 1 for lor r me to speak I 1 am urn well known and yell well liked I believe belive My name Is as It Is because my stem stein is reddish There are a num num- number ber bel of flowers on various little stems from nl my 1 one big stem and Im I'm of a u violet violet violet vio vio- let color or 01 pale bale lavender color All All of us are fire considered nice autumn autumn autumn au au- flowers Hower and we have heard of people who are particularly fond of asters wild asters wild asters such as we are We have thin leaves which arent aren't very big quits quite different from the thel l our Leaved cousin Leaved Large As As- ter Those cousins as ns you ou can guess have large leaves Icu Their name tells you ou that and then I I have mc already told It to you ou so you ou know it twice e. e I If you ou see them and doubtless you ou have seen them you will knoW know v that three times Ah Ali yes said Billie Dillie Brownie Ille I do doImo Imo know that bit of Information on now now that I have hn seen those cousins of yours Then hen Billie Brownie went and called on Late Purple Aster o The Late Purple Asters we webe e a larg larger r flowers with titi long on thin shin p petals petal and ta and andy yel INice I. I rr w. w Nice Autumn Flowers low centers and there were fewer flowers flowers flow flow- ers on these flower plants Each little branch that went of off from the main stem had but a single flower upon it and the flowers were deep violet violet violet vio vio- I let bl blue e in color Were V cre late in arriving they said But ut were we're late fate in leaving too t they added You see they told Billie Brownie were ver very fond of brilliant coloring and and the autumn Is the time when the coloring ing Is so wonderful Of course when we arrive in the middle of the Ue summer the coloring Is beautiful for the harvest hanest makes It so rich and lovely and iUnd then the Goldenrods Goldenrods Goldenrods Golden- Golden rods are about and they are so splendidly splendidly gay and bright In appearance Then he the mack mack-E Eyed Black ed Susans are about and all nIl of the different Aster relatives rel rei rel- rel a are e to be found found In their different different differ differ- ent nt home borne spots And from the middle of the summer on un It lt seems to us as though the colorIng colorIng color color- Ing lag grew more w wonderful day after day week after week When the autumn Is actually here then It gets so that its beauty Is beyond bey beyond be be- y yond nd expression We wondered how how It could be so o beautiful this year ear us as day day after d day r It did become more marvelous and the trees told us a secre secret and the shrubs s sand and the vines vines' s said ild that the secret was one In which they shared shured too But the they told me we could tell the secret to any anyone one one- really Interested In Nature Nature And we can see that that you are Billie Bro Brownie Oh do teh tell me the secret said nillie nil nil- lie lle Brownie It will give me so much pleasure to hear henr It it We asked the trees how It was that they grew lovelier each day and how v howIt It was that they could become so won won- It lit to us that each day we could not see them any anymore more beautiful and yet et they were yere more beautiful nn and we could tell that people felt the same wa way about them People would say that the days were so wonderful that they could n not t describe them them that that they hud bud used up all their words I And the trees told us this U Late Purple Asters Alters the trees said as os they swayed In the breeze we are Mother Natures Nature's children and ami we w want nt to look our best for our mother before we ue take fake ke at off our ur finery and go to sleep U We are so pleased that she Is pleased that we go on m e each ch day trying to look better and better each of ot us doing the same 14 I. We add a dash of color here or a adash adash adash dash of or color there and we Just try to please her more and more and more And as we tr try to please her more and more and more we keep Improving ourselves and looking better and bet bett ter You know this I Is the secret When we receive praise which Is deserved fr from m one we so dearl dearly love we do better better better bet bet- ter and better and better hetter Praise only makes us want to show that we wo 0 will not disappoint the one who I thinks thinks' so well of us We will be bellr worthy worthy wor thy of that praise That was tI a s secret the trees told flowers ended us the And Brownie th thought ht It was a beautiful secret but he was glad that all could hour hear the secret who were wert really r real really ul ly Interested In Nature |