Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
CONFIDENCE CORNER
In the Fall a Young Mans
Fancy.
BUSINESS SEASON NOW
SPRING rs THE ROMANTIC TIME
OF THE YEAR.
An Old Egyptian Saying and It's APP
plication-Promises and
Fulfllments.
Written for The Evening Star.

Late October is a magician For a few
moments, for few days, she holds the
world like a perfect pearl between such
wonderful balances as the moon and the
sun. Days golden orb in the west and in
the east nights radiant silver globe. Then
as the sun goes down in a sea of amethyst,
and the moon sails triumphant to the mid
heaven, gliding the hills and feather!ng
with light the plumes of all the royal for
ests, the hunters horns are heard and
every path and glen is filled with men in
Lincoln green, and the furtive things of the
fields and thicl1ets hide in their coverts and
wait for the waning of the hunters moon.
The Indians, who have contributed much
of the poetry that adorns our language, are
close students of nature, and they are wiser
than the scientists in natures lore. They
know the tides of the great waters and the
ways of the stars, and the benefits of the
full moon of the harvest which comes with
the autumnal equinox Under the influence
of the first light frosts the bears and other
alternating folk begin to think of going
into retreat. And the gorgeous nights,
which are as luminous as sunshine makes
the earlier hours. afford the last chance of
the man with the shooting stick who seeks
big game
So it is called the hunters moon. And it
Is the same whether it shines on silent
wood or tumultuous city. For while the
spring is the season when a young mans
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love-"
the autumn StirS him to ambition and the
pursuit of fortune. And that is the proper
adjustment Business first and love after.
This is putting winter in the van of the
seasons. But this SOFT brown-bosomed
earth of ours admits to certain confidants
that she has had a past. That at one time
she was a hard, frozen planet and that
winter Is her eldest child. So to all young
men who expect to resign themselves to the
soft delirium of love in spring | would urge
hunters moon. For, according to the old
theories of the red men, all things attempt
ed in the way of ventures expeditions or
speculatons will be successful The last
week of October is regarded the luckiest
period of the year by some of the tribes
and changes are left until that time.
He Plans to Win.
If a young brave has maid in the core
Of his heart, he begins then to plan to win
her to his arms. This he we'll knows can
has first to prove himself better than his
fellows by prowess of arms and strength.
And the gifts that he must bring to her
fathers lodge are to be won by his own
toll. The skin of a notified doe is not
enough There must be pelt of bear and
panther, warm and undried among his Of
ferfngS, and he must have herds and droveS
to prove that he is in position to take a
wife and head a tribe. 1t Is only among
the civilized peoples that a man goes WOO
ing with blithe unconcern regarding the
financial responsibilities he is assuming by
marriage, l have heard an impecunouS
young lover bewailing the modern refine
ments which compelled him to show wise