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Show AUTUMN. According to the almanacs, the seasons have their beginning and their ending at the points in the year where the days and nights are of equal length, and where the days are longcs: an'u shortest. short-est. Thus spring begins "about the 21st of March," summer "about the 23 st of June," autumn "about the 21st of September," and winter "about the 21st of December." If you should happen to look in another almanac, perhaps it would read 22d instead in-stead of 21st, but almanacs are not necessarily any more reliable than are the seasons they point out. It is true that the ordinary man does not take much notice of the shortening days until about the 21st of September. But whether you have noticed particularly the shortening of the days and the lengthening of the nights or not, the fact remains that this is autumn. In many ways it is the most delightful season of the year, too, notwithstanding spring is more widely praised by the poets. These are the days when you sniff the invigorating morning air, square your shoulders and walk more lightly than has been your custom. Oh, if one only had an aeroplane aero-plane on such mornings as these! It is true that in the wooded regions the autumnal au-tumnal season is more beautiful to the eye, for the trees are painted into myriads of hues of red and yellow, but here iu the Salt Lake valley 1he sky is as hazy as could be desired, the mountains come nearer and go farther away under the varying conditions con-ditions of the atmosphere, and the sunsets are a daily marvel. All hail to autumn, the season when all Nature is in the fullness of her beauty and whose days and nights are one long delight. |