Thursday, September 7, 2017

S.H. Farabee Welcomes Fall, 1916

“Approach of Fall,” from the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Sept. 25, 1916, S.H. Farabee, editor.
We now approach the most glorious period of the year—fall, when the trees are shaking loose the foliage that has adorned them during the summer months; when yellow and gold of the forest blend with the brown and green of the earth; when the wind rattles the cornstalks; when the pumpkin is waiting for frost to give to it the flavor without which it would be no pumpkin; when the sweet taters are about ready for digging, and the children are going to school. Cool nights and warm days, reports of frost in the mountains, football practice at the colleges; possum hunts by the young folks, fox chases by the old boys, pullets hatched in the spring are laying—what else is needed?
Soon we will have Indian summer, that glorious period of autumn when the fall is blending with winter. The fields and hills, especially the latter, will declare the glory of the creator. Joseph’s wonderful coat, on which Jacob lavished so much time and thought, would appear tawfy beside one of the least of the leaves picked up at random in the forest, and no dress milady can buy would match the harmonies of nature’s colors.
How glorious natures goes to sleep in the winter.

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