The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-08-16
Az AuiusI NONIH.

With thunderstorms The grass is in the barn the whea
in the granary it ready for the thresher The stoc
broker is at loss for excitement. There is yellow on tn
fields aud there yellow in the sky Blackbenies backe
the hillside gens where the heads Of boys and girls shoy
Tar away among the bushes. Tomorrow there will b
blackberry pies 1t is curious how everything has hid
den meaning and secret fitness strawberry shOrtcake
raspberry Jam and jelly, plum pudding blackberry pie al
these were in the very nature Of things.
Why the birds Will not any longer sing is hard to fine
out, need we be nqusitiVe. Our catDirds will a
least talk with till our collie greedy OF cOmpanonshp
comes with pathetic eye and wishes to know wha
friends we have beyond and above himself. Why yO
Jealous pet this world Is bio enough for dozen friend
ships Why should the birds be expected to sing al
through the year. DO not ourselves find sly paths il
The woods and look out into valley fox looks out?
Yet IL is good month for pcnics There is a leisure
Just before hop-pcking and corn cutting and just after
and wheat have been stored. Did YOU 80 to
farmers pcmc! II not You do not know the American
people. The whole population OF our cities should bC
turned out into the country through the whole Of this
month If they cannot afford to stop work long let
them take hold with the farmers in the fields. There
need enough for every and many would 90 bach
into the smoke and the crowd Is there an easy solu
tion Of the help probemto take the city out into the
country while the vineyards and orchards are just rpen
ing their fruits? Here the hands and there is the
work and the food. Picnic day in the country is
mere froc day. socalzes, bringing the scattered peo
pie together On the contrary picnic for the city CROWD
good only because scatters By way Of the picnic
factory hands learn that there looms in the woods and
that water power has something to do in the world besides
run machinery.
August is vacation monh-th is the school buildings
are closed but on the contrary the great big school
house is Just opened the house without roof The fact
is writes college boy, have really learned during
my vacation than at any other time Camping In the Ad-
ondacks and serving waiter at hotels have taught
lessons could not get from text books This probably
true OF all the thousands OF young folk who do not to
camp, but only let loose in the country. Once get
boy to look for himself and he will find the world is piled
p with books of which the fields everywhere are printed
pages Arnold White speaks OF universal half-edu
cation" We have not learned with all study to see
we'll 1t is not only what IS about US to which we are
blind, but what going about The eyes and ears
have not got over their savage nherance watching for
the things to eat and the things that are dangerful
When.the painter RosSeau drew an oak peasant said
Master why making that oak when it Is already
made? marvellous deep question, Is not most OF art
hung the walls of people who cannot the very
things before they painted? Does this sort OF art
these people to better not to look at all?
Surely the greatest gallery of art is the unpanted forest
the hillside farm and the valley Vacation helps
up into the bigger schoohouse with the larger library and
pictures that live and grow
The orchard and the vineyard the witchng pla
We do not mean the vineyard where the vines
cut down to three four feet and the tresses only
of posts where the punches hang mechanically: but
the vineyards where vines grow bit free and climb
and swing their clusters in the wind; where occasionally
tendi grasps neghborng tree and lifts itself up among
the buternutS the apples There nothing full Of
fu and foc and of good nature and of general boysh
ness grapevine The fruit is better than mutton for
strength and certainly delicious 1t was sorry joke
when caeessy eaten beestake charged appendicitis
70 grape seeds But why swallow the seeds? You will
hardly get the flavor of Lady Lndley grape by slid
ING it whole into the stomach Nature arranged it you
should get perfect taste while rejecting the seeds How
ever never stop satisfied with less than four five
punches of grapes Eat them before dinner then make
your dinner Of them and take few punches for desert
Every kind of fruit has its charm and It's season. The
first apples rpen, through the heart of the apple belt
about the middle Of July and the first pears little
During August they lie all over the orchard floor in
less prouslOn How beautifully the AsrachanS fit into
the green sod with their crimson cheeks Nature did
intend to create very early apples These the work of
human selection and artfu breeding We have been wild
enng the orchard just have enlarged the size
9f our fruits and improving the flavor 1t is however
hard to cell what natures share in horticultural pro-
gess Every should grow fruit than he needs
dozen cherry trees can be planted along the fence
line 100 feet TleSe will bear hnshes of bird food if