Show J 0 I 1 Frost Time Home Time Home Time t BY WI WINIFRED BLACK R n theres there's frost in the air ar good friendly glad B R B-R-R-R you to frost that sends the blood to tingling in n the veins and makes the slowest feet walk with some sonic semblance of youth and sprightliness There what There what's that patch of r white on th the gra grass s over there here in the shad salad corner Yes Ter its it's frost sure ure enough See Sec how the children hurr hurry alon along to school chool and anel m f what's ph-what's h what's that I smell 1 I WOl wonder Il if theres there's any real maple syrup left in th tips the world How low far would you travel to net get et some The man at the thc corner downtown is very ery Ch cheerful ClUI He Te has sold a dozen bags of hot chestnuts already and already and was vas that a sweet potato roaster I saw trundling along a aback aback abad back bad street just now now Hurrah frost Is here Summers Summer's fine for fOI moonlight ht and and new friends and sweet nothings and a strain of or expensive c music music mu mu- sic ic under tho the starlight and the memory of some omE half halt forgotten otten dream but for real heart hearty what youre about happiness give me the time winter and the fall Hurrah Hur ur- ur rah Im I'm glad thc they arc here Only what Only what Is getting gettin N f be beth bethe bethe th the matter with the old f ire I haven't seep seen a friendly flame since the frost came except the one that leaps on m my own hearthstone Id I'd have lave a fireplace if I had to go f without a ru rug in the tho house to do It it and Id I'd ke keep p a Cir fire there ther If I had to wear my last years year's frock and year ear before lasts last's hat to pa pay for or the wood I burn hurn Vh Why theres there's no sort of friendliness in a house at all without the play pla of or leaping fire on the faces that gather around it ft Throw a handful of salt salton on that little handful of or coals over there In the tH corner COIner of the grate rate See who ever dreamed of oC such glorious riots of color violet color violet green crimson on bright yellow And then Is the time time to tu to talk time to reason together time to fall in love again time tine timeto to know lilIo what's going on in the little brain there on theother the thc theother other side of or the fireplace time to a ask questions k time to laugh and time to sing old-fashioned old ome song songs No o o nu no c canned nned mu ic before the thc fireplace no ra ragne rag rag- he ne E ditties either cither pia please e. e They do well enough h in their places but hut not b before ore the high hith altar of or a family fire the place Should auld acquaintance Way Ya down upon My Iy lovel lovely Eloise Ill III remember you Oll dear in nl my pra prayers ers oh eh oh heart of mine how can you ou be bc hard when that old song ong is hs heard My I o own sweet Lily Dale the Dale the son songs s your our grandmother sang when the la last t century was young and arid we didn't have Janitors and eh elevators and radiators radiators radi radl- and all the modern conveniences con Come lets Jets light the fire and sing In together The cold world waits outside how holy soon will kill it claim you roup little little lit lit- I tle tic s girl with the oft soft hair falling on your round check how lion s soon on will it draw cruel lines In that rus rosy face Cace of or yours little boy hoy with the dreaming eyes Go where you rou will viii on oil land or 01 on sea Ill I'll share all your troubles and cares care I And Jd at night when I r kneel at my bedside to pra pray r Ill I'll remember you dC dear clear r in my I prayers I Never l' l m mind if iC your voice oice does break a little See was t that lat a a. dear dea remembered remembered face d' d face that smiled from the time heart of oC the friendly fire Just now I Falls Fall's come conic frost time home homo time tins heart time lets let's ill light lis-ht the fire and got get acquainted again |