Show the r he artists new year aby by FLORENCE RA HARRIS WELLS higggs j H E WAS an artist ana lin ha thought by fr aveling ON ori the snow boulad prairie pr airle tip lir could get tin no 11 j the llie winter landbo ape I 1 e wei was planning pianola I 1 ut it 1 MI I proving a dl di inal failure in 6 admitted to te himself Hs as thi first day of the new yur was drawing to a close ile he had not cleown to travel this day ilia ili lall should have liepp areep reached 24 4 hours earlier but here lie he was ill it il if here lie he was likely to be fur for kimii time lime from the present outlook kit ia ilay day the slow moving train hall had plow fill il through the heavy sencw now fit lir ili coming a land of lee ice front from tile the sir mt ty rain that was steadily fulling falling to make matters varse it was in an immigrant train why fare faie hit hasul caused him to pick till ahli train lie enaid il not U understand ilder stand A eran way Irn lil to begin the lie year villi this chis melange of human beings impal of at his own fireside and lie had deluded himself with the thought that he Z night get lou JOB f from rain a trip ll 11 such as tills this he sarcastically I 1 reminded himself rain and re ee without a rhill gray back 1 roand around vs h I 1 11 I 1 e within it was in worse with glit terill v golfes lees lie he didel dian t ilke ili grants ne fie title like their nuni i 1 nu children ile he had lust just come to this n as a rule till nil child lil aill pealed to hira him when a grimy girl irl crept nto into tile the sent seat beside him unit with walh ishi eyes eye upturn fJ li 1 his a asked 1 I Is it no not beau beats u tl ti ful ml sacr the artler looked where here the ar chiv iv little pointed and geif it leis in irr 7 tf leavy eavy clouds grown thin scarlet and pink tile hill k firm farni buildings stand mil ill in silhouetted gracefulness it heavenly sky the last rays of thil setting sun sent rent a glow ovir tile gleaming lee ice covered prairie that made it II and sparkle with a mystical radt auice itce ne put his arm about the rravis stained little ittle immigrant she loo had the artists soul dusy with hla own self centered thoughts lull hill hor fr this child lie he would have missed the greatest inspiration nature from hor bountiful store had everret ever set before him the new year tear had brought to him after all 0 1929 11 western newspaper union I 1 |