| Show preparations FOR WINTER mrs delton sat in her easy cane rocker which stood on the vine covered porch of a neat little cottage artistically arranging and stitching a dainty design formed with a narrow silk braid on the panel of a childs dress As she sat busily occupied with tills this work she was naming over a number of articles which she intended to purchase on the marrow presently a blue eyed rosy cheekes cheeked che eked plump little girl of live five with golden curls hanging carelessly about her shoulders ran up tip on to the porch and sloping in ili front of mrs delton gazed admiringly at the dress for a moment and then said 0 mamma you youia Alave ve my new dress almost finished you it pretty aay may I 1 wear it next sunday mamma sirs mrs delton as she pinned back a pluster cluster of curls from nellies forehead sat you would be very uncomfortable in tills this dress next sunday nellie aa a it is made of a heavy wool serge and is only to be worn on very cold bys Ys ll 11 the little girl gave a very dis ant ed sigh and said marnma mamma are you ranking making it ditrow I 1 row why EL wait sit till ill the cold days come mrs delton laying her work aside and telling nellie to get her little red chair and sit beside her answer answered edher aher as follows look at those bees over there on oil that lower flower bed do you know what they are doing nellie they are flying from one flower to another mamma yes and as they go front from one tiny blossom to another they sip the lioney honey from it carry it to their hives and store it away for winter the little squirrels are very busy in the woods gathering acorns and nuts and storing them away in fit their homes for their food when cold winter comes and the ground Is covered with a snowy blanket neros and fur will soon bo be much heavier than it ft is now the little birds that bave h ave sung so sweetly to us all summer will leave their nests in the tall trees and go to a warmer country the bears in the mountains will be hunting for a thle pine tree or a large stone or cave in which to sleep the long winter months away the leaves will come fluttering down dolln front from the trees to lighten the bui burden den of the branches which will bs be decorated with snow the plants and alid lowers nie ate carefully storing their seeds away in ili pods and shells to protect them from the frost all nature knows that winter is coming and is busily preparing for it do you remember last year at thanksgiving time our visit with uncle john on oil his farm yes mamma where did he go to get those fine red apples for us from a hole in the glouid mamma yc yes s he g got at them from a pit uncle john had been working very hard for two months or more gathering ills his fruit and vegetables and storing them away for winter aunt may had been working all summer putting up tip all of 0 that n fruit and those good pickles J J eila r I 1 too nellie nolue din am working hard bard to get nice warm clothes clothe sr made for you and your little brothers grandma is knitting woolen stockings lor for you so that when the snow comes whirling down and the cold north winds wow bow with jack frost ever ready to nip the noses of litte girls gifts and boys I 1 want to be prepared just as well as the little bees ane squirrels squi the bears tue tile birds nero and pussy the trees and the howers flowers to say come collie cold winter I 1 am ready just then nellies little friend called caled her so putting her arms around her mothers neck in a very affectionate way she said 0 you dear mamma and skipped away nora kotter school for the blind GOVERNOR NA ES ADVISORY BOARD governor william willfam spry has named an advisory board of utah business nien men to see that this state Is properly represented ell resented with a display of its products at the western land products exhibit to be held in omaha january 18 to 28 Tho Beare the members ot of the th cloard board parley T wright H L griffin G L decker ogden able J evans lehi stephen L chipman american fork IV H ray hay william M roylance provo prove J S page jr J S mcbeth pay aion on As this exhibit is in the interest of 0 western western development those interested have asked all utah people to write their friends in the east and in ili the great mississippi and missouri valleys valley S if you cannot come to utah and see what we have out here by all means go to omaha and see an honest and comprehensive exhibit of utah products thousands of farmers in the older and better developed deN eloped sections ot of the middle west are going to make a move lor for more land next spring if they go to omaha and see the exhibits from western states it Is certain they will not go to the south nor to canada where thousands have gone As utah will play an important part at the omaha exposition it Is reasonable to suppose that a certain per ot of ane visitors to the exhibit will select this state as their future home utah people should do ever thin thing possible to get their friends to visit omalia omaha during the exhibit as this state never suffers by comparing its product with those of any other section on earth |
