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Show H' JUST BEFORE SPRING H; Of all the periods of tho last year H lato winter is tho olio in which the B ' countryside appears loast Inviting. It m is tho slovenly soason at least, so B it seems to tho man or woman who Ht cannot in Imagination -picture the bbVbVbm'' Ht tomorrow when a sleeping world H' shall leap Into life. B urown and bedraggled Is tho landscape), faded tho grass of tho H, . fields, and bleak' and bare the trees B' of tho4 forest. About all outdoors H thero is a sombernossjind a samo- H ncss that is far from Inviting. The H browns ' that predominate, are not I .- the rare, warm colors such as char-1 H acterlzed tho early autumn. Thero Hl 'Is only a faded garment where onco HI: was a gorgeous raiment of gold and Hf'v' rich browns. HM The patches of show that lie along BBB'A. . .ft" v.v ,v . i i HM. the shaded, roadside where great, BBBr .jW--i"'i' ' ' ! BLJ drifts, or spot Ilka a leopard's hide BBBJfikV I g' thf sheltered slopes, are sot white Mif ' '.once they, were. Even they are Hv ' dirty 4aad' fall to relievo the drarl- K neu. - .. . BBh vv' U Everywhere there Is lack of color BBBj.'A' . " " B d apparently decay dominates. But Hf ' Joyous. thought! It Is only the ly rest before the resurrection. A little :- while and' we shall took upon a new 4 BBBJ: world, a world pulsating with life bbbbbbI'C MM, , and pregnant with promises. In the BBbJm' F tomorrow month we shall, following the first rains that, somehow, wash f waymuch-of earth's ugliness, see.- , i springing from today's mud a carpet BBBV '' BBsHrr. v ' Kreen. ' Htai; . This .carpet, woven from Naturo's BBBBnHnrW $ s A " ftvuw" BBBHBa5 loom, shall proclaim the coming of BBBBTye? Bi''S a new sen80n- a season of song an J. k-k of gladness. Thon shall there bo ai BBBJ' -?i) BBbJ'Am new earth. This earth tho man of BBBl t .;,',,. 'vision sees oven In tho just .before, Vf ' spring somber season when Naturo's H -garments are dull -and bedraggled. H Parm and Fireside. BBBV |