| Show mw df a dir a 4 ilina I 1 LP e 14 vi V N av 14 4 t u 4 SNO HE TEP 0 1 SEE LOTS OF INDI AtIS HEU V aal I 1 FOUM AN A ROW MCA RIG V OUR 1 BC T THE 4 ARI 75 aal ar INIS 61 yam M 0 AN pop r PS by ELMO SCOTT WATSON ANG akal I 1 goes goen another of our illusions illusion I 1 it la Is lo in regard to that VIE pleasant gorlod in autumn known knonk as indian sum nier mer and as usual it if ta Is science which lias haa disillusioned us no adless less an authority than alian tild alio united states von weather ther bureus busing basing its nent upon accurate meteorological observations has this to say about that de season orned for its genial sunshine and alluring haze indian guminer cummer Is IK the gamt applied I 1 in n thin ihla c country ta a perl period namer d ot at onlia old fall all weather h or allowing a spell apall ot of able iba old cola weather known as an winter much buch an B occurred this fall it la Is no not t a fixed tenson season in the th calendar in many it 11 is in int intermittent that Is in there m may a r be b never a I 1 indian summer bommera s in one autumn in notes on an weather conditions at con cord mafia from 1851 to 1800 records tho the occurrence of indian summers on dat s ranging from september 27 to december 13 in europe as aa w 11 an in in this country it lj in popularly believed beli aved that a rs r newal ot of waater occurs esry a autumn u and the dates ot or its lt occurrence are pora definitely axed thau than Is in the case in america tat per ad la Is associated with the namen ot or various mints the tha mild period thus thu Is in known in different dt Krent parts of 0 europe as a st mar 11 lans summer ste st lukes summer or F tit blich michaels neVe summer Bu miner and tradition font 0 M the idea that it la a always arnild and warm about the tl time of treve v arloan saints days climatological facto aota holover hov hol over vever do not always square with this belief indian summer has always been it a favorite theme of t artists poets especially tho the latter jaho aho vho however ho have usually been better verso verse malt erg era than meteorologists when was the red marls mans summer au camor anslia 9 lyd lydan Il sigourney tho the felicia irell cla hemans of america and ono one of the early nineteenth century poets then without trying to ox fix tile the date data in ono one of her ll 11 poems ems she eha says saya it came when tho the groves an in colors wrote their own decays decar cays with heart I 1 foreboding or depressed the will the clans ol of edminio winter then than began the tha indians joyous bonson john 1 0 I cl C brainerd tk a contin contemporary po of mrs mra ey is 13 more apo bloc lein in placing the season at the time i i when the trot frost turns turn in into to beauty all octo october bers charras ch arian longfellow fixes ixos the season the first ot of november in a passage t in his as follows ol lowas iban than followed beautiful season called by the ploua peasants tha buttimer Buti imer ot of all saint ailed walo tile the air with a dr dreanie eLTiy and i and aal tia the lay layes e ig 1 now created coall the troah fresh nesa ai ot childhood sincoe election day tome in novem govern her ber tho the follo fol lowing quotation quo taiton croul Whitt whistlers whittlers lers tho the rye of Kl ecHon also places summer IQ in that i romuold to eray cray our inlaid sweet day ot of indian summer fades too soon oon nut hut jen tenderly benderly tender derly jy above the sea hangs white and ana calm tho the bun huntr term moon in its itsu at fire the v ml spire shows like the zodiacs spectral lance T the he painted walls walla whereon wherlo n it falls alls Trans transfigured figured stand in marble crannal trance t stephen henry thayer puts it a lit tie he later in the month whoa when he says nays that it I 1 Is inthe in the autumns dotage mid mad govern november vember ler when skies seductive seeni basin to woo the earth other poets however are more concerned alth what it la Is rather than maen it if id and have given us ua some charming descriptions sam walter voss poss in his inimitable dialect calls it a piece of sweetmeat in the th 0 following verso verse 11 the good old schoolmarm school marm mami who pities our distress she sh elvett a her children every year a little glad recess AW an ol at irray array headed boys boya and girls girl they ther feel their thaw out an lift life iowa flown oil oi as mus loly as an water froni from a spout an I 1 now the ancin summer Sarn time att all its rest Is in here A piece ace of sweet meat stuck between the slices of the yeara sorter or er jubilee twixt snow cinc thunder showers A A c h of awes t noun sandwiched in between the frost and howers flowers wor nor were the early american Amb rican poets the ones who paid their tribute as na witness tile the following by marian boobel un bet argus angus SUMMER indian summer bummer broods today oya over tho he mellow autumn lands sn oft vlony veils of amethyst amot hyst and amber p pale ale stream from tier her hands vines hang heavy with purple gr grampas alpas apple trees bond bend with crimson hemr and lid in the woods wood the great croat oak trees tree aro are crowned with golden disdains like topazes the pumpkins lie II 11 set in a ring of at brown and green and marok the sun nun while spears OS of goldenrod Kold anrod make gay the scene nature la in drowsy her work li is done now she nhe awaits her winter rest harvest arvest It in over the tired brown earth will ip deep I p with rod red leaves on an her bet breast and minna irving paints this gayly colored word picture of 0 INDIAN BLANKETS firem are burning brightly rhuby red the embers klow glow indian council fires rekindled ironi from the ash ot of long ago aeo anil and the winds a runner passing with his feet in deerskin shod hod and a chiefs tall feather tosses losses aw an th the dusty goldenrod wild graves ripen in the thicket purple asters edee the at stream ream and the braves to earth returning dy the moons enchanted beam hang hanff their red and yellow blan blankets lets on the windy maple bough when the tha frosty night la in over for lla its indian summer now another famous dialect poet F frank rank L stanton writing of indian summer in ills his native state of georgia declares that injun summer suits me soft night ants ante stilly day an and d I 1 could keep on dreadin amin till I 1 dreamed my life away and cornelia it II doherty calls it the i season WHEN THE ACORNS DROP theres a whisper on the hilltop and a a murmur in the wood theres A dream ot of golden glory overy everywhere ery where on the beech a russet cover on the dim a mottled mot t led hood ho 0 d while the walnut lifts her branches brown brow and bare oh the or crows we hold their meeting in the old oaks top and ho be for lf or indian 1 summer bummer when tha th acorns droel theres a bloom upon the meadow like the ghost of summer lowers flowers but the forest and the valleys ari are aflame and on an hillside and in hollow throughout all the misty hours descend the rustling drops of autumn rain oh the squirrels at his fena in the tha old oaks top and ho he for indian summer when the acorns drop when the chestnut chestnut and the hazelnut haxel nut put 0 on n a richer brown and the blackbirds all are gathered tn in A loch when mallow ln in the marshes marshen buttons buttone up her yellow gowns then its time to heap the fodder to la a shock ob autumns on her waning better eatherly eather ln the or coopt cropt 0 af pf and ho tor for indian summer when the acorns but not all the beautiful tributes to indian summer have been in verse oliver wendell II 11 olmes writer of delightful prose as well as poetry in his lit essay on the seasons says in october or early liv lit november arter after the equinoctial storms comes the indian summer it Is the time to be ba in the woods wood a or on the seashore a aw sweet a at season t that hat should d be ba given to lonely walks to stumbling about in old churchyards plucking on the way alj aromatic aro matio silvery herb everlasting inor and an smelling selling at its dry flower until it the soul into aimless re reveries verice outside of space and time there Is 1 no need of 0 trying to paint the still warm misty dreamy indian summer in words there are many states that have no articulate vocabulary and arp are only to be ba reproduced by music arid add the tha mood this season produces to la of that nature in the guardian angel lie he continues aes ues on that theme thus to those who know the indian summer ot of our northern states it la Is needless to describe the influence it exerts on the senses and the soul the stillness ot of the landscape in that time lip it as an it the planet were wera sleeping like ilka a top before li it begins to rork with the tha storms of autumn all natures seem to find themselves more truly in it its light love grows more tender religion ral lelon more spiritual memory sees farther back into the past brief arlet revisits its ILs mossy marbles the poet t harvests tho the ripe thoughts which h will tle tie in sheaved of verses by his bis winget fireside and lu in E elsie isle venner he refers again to this season benson by declaring that the real forest Is hardly stilt still except in indian summer then there Is death in the house and they are ara waiting fo for r the sharp shrunken months to come with white raiment for the summers sum mera burtal burial |
