Show r 1 n H A r I NATURES NATURE'S NEW YEAR Mother Nature was very busy talkIng talk talk- ing to all nil her children Now Jow I r r want f every one of you to to- todo do your jOUr part towa toward I d wishing every everyone one a ti II Happy appy Now Year I W Well lI all do dov K v what h hat a t w we e c can can a n Mother lother Natures Nature s children said Ii First I I S t o of f a all 11 Kin King Frost began began began be be- gan and went around and frosted frost frost- ed over ovel the windows windows win win- dows until they gleamed like Ilke thin din They Put Icicles mon Inon months s In the star- star Under the tha Eaves II b g h t tan a and n d t the h e moo moonlight n II g h t and wonderful colors could be seen In the lights which shone upon them from the str streets ets Then King Fro Frost t did cUd the most glo glorious glori lous l- l ous of pictures and designs and the whole scene was as beautiful as could be bp For FOl all the windows were be beyond description In their beauty and their sparkling gleaming qualities Old King Snow and all the Snowflake Snowflake Snowflake Snow- Snow flake children fell gently to the earth with fifth a new supply of fresh and white white snow People can cnn make their new resolutions resolutions King Snow said and land c can n try to always be as pure and white and shining as this Is now to today ay King Ice and the Icicle Girls went around and froze the ponds and Just dust went vent to every little brook and stream and did their best to make an on Ice covering covering covering cov cov- ering for ever everything for New Years Year's Day They had a busy time going around from place to place but they did dd have such fun And they put Icicles wider under the eaves of houses and had laughing jo jolly ly freezing times as they climbed up when no one was looking right up the sides of houses and put Icicles of all nIl sizes s about about about- Then old Prince fcc who had charge of freezing some of the Jal lakes es decI decided ed edhe he would not freeze everything as It would mal make e It more unusual If he did It in his own way So he froze lakes quite firmly up to toa toa toa a certain point and then stopped which certainly ce made people sa say It remarkable the lake e Is frozen only up to Mile Five Point and there are three miles of lal lake e be beyond ond where It Is not frozen at all The member of the Ice family who was going to make nice ponds for hockey playing had them all In readIness readiness readiness readi readI- ness for the first of the New Year Then the snow covered Itself over over garden arbors and over over trees trees and bushes and aDd shrubs and over oyer lattices In gardens so that New Ye Years Year's rs r's Eve saw the stars twinkling down and smiling at all this glory and beauty There will be no flowers In the gardens these nights but the beauty of the snow-covered snow bushes will partly make up for that Mother Nature said She went around an and saw that brown trees were covered wi with th snot sno and It seemed as though the Fairies had ma made e the Fairyland of Ice and snow that clung to the twigs of the branches and which gave such a lovely appearance to eYer everything Even the trains arriving on New Years Year's Eve Eye and New Years Year's Day were cre covered with snow sno and 1001 looked ed pretty I too too- and not at all like e useful but plain looking trains In some houses they w were re having haying New Years Year's Eve Eye parties and dnn dancing ing and acting and malin believe e believe to be bethe bethe the Old and the New Year and there were ere bells hells being rung and whistles shrieking and all nil sorts of ways of an an- a new year On New NW Years Year's Day there were parties par par par- ties too and fliers wore wr-re little t tables of ot simple pree present pre pres e en ent n t R n s-n n u ts is and candles candies ur lI s un and 1 may may- maybe maybe la 1 be a a. a crisp dollar bill for the oldest child and amI bright silver pieces forthe for forthe forthe the younger onus And And a n little girl named M Maggie n g g I e had taken token out nut her herold herold herold old old sled and It was doing very well wen el I and holding up Its Us own CI very well considering all the new sleds that were about with all their new Her Old Old Sled Improvements Ever Every one one spoke of the beauty of the day and seemed accrued to feel reel u 1 crisp newness about the New Year But nut Mother Nature un understood and said as the first da day of the New Year was over Thank you ou my ray children for nil all doIng do do- Ing lag your best to make the first da day oS of o the New New Year s so o beautiful |