Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-28
AUTUMN.

slander of Autumn, that its days are " the
melancholy days, the saddest OF the wear -
To ms they seem the brightest and happiest OF
the twelvemonth They come with their de.
lightiui coolness close after the sweltering Sum
mer, and they bring with them the treasure
that the Spring promised and the Summer
tOiled to perfect. The countless wealth of the
teeming earth comes home to the barns or
hangs pendant on the boughs The grapes
turn purple and grow red in the face with the
Impressed wine that fills their bursting skins.
Inc nuts that boys and the girls seek under
the thlck-hmbed beach or beat from the hick.
ory, walnut and oilnut trees, are waiting 10 be
gathered The cider-mill has its tee th exam
ined, and its tubs washed and its pres, made
ready Tor the carloads of apples that are turned
out at Its door. So like an old epicure of an
anaconda that wakes from months of sleep to
glHt itself on the rabbits near it! And the
squirrels chirp and frisk so merrily, with their
cheeks as plethOric with nuts and stolen corn
as an honest Jack s with "oId soldiers What
rare sport is to be had with the coons when the
harvest or Hunters moon play at "bo-peep''
with the sun, raising their broad faces over the
eastern horizon, just as the sun draws his below
the western.
And the mirth Of the huskings, now by rea-
son OF husking machines fast becoming memo
RES OF the past, or to be found only in rocky
New England. And the large mellow pump.
kins that dot the corn-feld all over with their
rich color, and seem to be aching to be made
into luscious pies for these same huskines.
Where rural lovers and their maidens pop the
question and claim the forfeit kiss. And what
an event is the lighting Of the first fire In the
sitting room, particularly if it be of wood, and
be IN one of those smoky, roomy, uncomfort-
able, delightful, old-fashioned fire. places. How
the flames run into all the little crevices of the
chimney, and then, frightened at ITSELF draws
m ha haa I'll A.
dlstrustful of the world outside. And 80 il
coquets and hirts till the flames getting bold
anu clustering, run up the chimney and en-
courage the smoke. And when il does at last
get over the top one little wavelet after an
other, 1t loiters for minute, uncertain and
irresolute, and then goes off in such volumes
ana rises up 50 buoyantly, and keeps up such
a. race with the flames all the long evening.
Henceforth the fire absOrbs Toms care and his
mothers and another is added to his ''chores."
VIZ: to bring in chips and wood The Lares and
fenates take their seat upon the broad hearth
stone Tor the winter, the cricket chrps, and
q" Like locust shrilis the imprisoned sap,
hunted to death tn its galleries blind ,;
And how grand is what we call Nature. The
gorgeous sunsets, the myriad hued foliage even
sne pare trunks and stripped branches of the
forest are all alive with beauty. And 10 ms II
seems gladstone beauty. There is nothing
sombre in 1T. The trees put off their leaves as
the soldier who has done his duty doffs his
uniform when his work is done, and the vic
tory gained. The trees have borne their fruit.
they have wishstOod the spring freshet the
summer drought. Their duty was to grow,
ana they have done it. They can point to feet
OF new twlgs and inches of new circumference,
and they lay of their garments for the rest of
winter.
And how the earth takes up their cast off
garments, to make from them a garment for
nersef Driven from the garden of Summer.
as Mother Eve was from the garden Of Eden,
old Mother Earth sows leaves together and
makes to herselfan apron to cover her laps, and
yet chose for his Joseph
But we are forgetting ourselves We are not in
the country. CoOped up in the city, our life is
tanned down, and has NO charact ristics Sea-
sons come and go, and the brick walls are lust
the same
Yet even to US does Fall brings its ioys and
denotes its coming. Business men look for a
IeViVal OF trade, which, like starched dickey
hot day, has collapsed, under the influence
of Summer
he light, airy fabrics Of Summer disappear
from the shop windows, and their place is sup
pled by heavier goods, and dark coiored Straw
hats go into retiracy, and fur caps appear here
and there. Everybody moves more briskIy under
the tonic OF the bracing air. Coal carts are
ufNoh 'hTousn the streets. We meetOu friends
returning from the sea-shOre and the noun
tains, and the Springs Hearts expand AS the
mercury contracts. Balls are projected and
parties given. Social life has new blood i'm il,
veins: Young women tell how many hearts
they broke at Newport. Young men recount
their conquests Cold nights set bachelors To
thinking Publishers bring out new books
Boys and girls hunt up their long misused
school books and states. The theatres announce
rare combinations Of talent for the approaching
seison. Opera managers whisper seductive pro.
misses that they are coming, and will bring two
or three new singers, and as many new operas
with them. Applications are made at the IL
braries for mental food for the winter Con.
gressmen en- esSe and in posse, address the dea
people Lecturers advertise their literary
wares, and Lyceums engage them Medical
schools send prospectuses, in which the he 4lth-
fulness OF the city they are located in, and their
peculiar advantages for procuring subjects and
giving clinical instruction, are Stated side by
side, with no thought of the inconsistency of
the statements Halls of tho Legislatures are
put in order. Business is marked out for the
Legislatures and Congress And lastly, not
leastly, the newspaper reporter lays IN stores
paper and pencils, and brushes I'D his phono-
graphy, that he may be prepared for the work
which the Fall promises
And thus we welcome Autumn n.-C,n Go1