The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-10
Evening Chat

they have ben growing taller each
day. Now they are shooting out into
from FIVE to eight stars on q stalk,
all exquisite eolors-plnk, white, law
endar, and magenta, 30 dainty, and
delicate are the flowers and on SO
slender stem that going down the
street a short distance away they
look as though suspended IN the air,
their pretty faces smiling here and
there pleasantly as one passes.
Honeysuckle is everywhere. They
are great clouds Of It over fences and
verandas and the perfume SO poig.
nantly sweet, clihgs all about one
when passing.
Flower boxes and hanging baskets
are at their height Of beauty now. On
Fairmont avenue one passes excep.
tionally lovely ones. Most OF them
have bright geraniums and what is SO
faithful as the geranium and coltas,
trailing Ivy and ferns. | saw sever.
al today with lavendar migfonette de.
lightfully fragrant, sending out mes.
sages OF happiness. saw golden
flowers and pink ones, red buds and
small blue ones and each box gave me
some new idea of the people who live
in the house behind It,
Verandas too tell delightful things.
In East Park along the car line, be.
yond the smoke OF the train, are some
most charming out door living porch.
es. comfortable cretonne covered
swings and cushioned chairs, tables
and magazines, great bowls OF mas,
turtiums and other towers and the
fragrant breezes and peeoing cosmas
can imagine no more beautiful living
room. | passed one veranda especial.
" appealing; there were two large
nome made rockers. In striving for
comfort no particular attention was
paid to detail and as a consequence
truly artistic piece of furniture had
oeen made there OF rough logs. Gre
tonne for padded seat and back had
been selected by beauty loving eve
II was tan and green a mixture OF
trees and leaves Just the shade of au.
tumn yellow and green which ia vast.
~ Inherent from spring yellow and
green.
Just now all nature greens are dark
almost dull with suggestion of pur.
pie very much like the misty shadows
underlying the Hills about us, and vel.
low is the corn, the shade mature. no
longer the gay bright yellow of the
goldenrod. So many objects of the
gray OF older age did the Creator make
mistake, would we look better in au.
tumn colors Of the woods and hill.
sides? How would hair OF FURNISHED
red and gold look?
The veranda so especially appealing
possessed a couch of four logs, two
long and two narrow with wire springs
and was hung by four chains. 1t was
covered with heavy pad of the same
cretonne and had half dozen more
or less cushions. The imagination of
the cretonne lover runs unchecked
Cretonne is the most expressive of all
materials and of all moods, on this
liVing porch were glimpses of many of
the traits of the owner,
There is bit of woods along Fast
Park avenue, directly in the heart of
the street and a small home guarded
and sheltered by it. 1t reminds one
or all the pleasant surprises of life
VINO would look for woods on a CITY
street and how charming to step Off
the pavement down into It for a mo.
ment to rest and think.
Coming home against the wind de-
tected an odorous promise of purple
grapes and gold and red leaves and
woddsy carpeted pavements of fallen
ones and rusty hedges and other fra.
grances Of the air. saw many astors
nII
belated roses and high up on slen.
der white pole large bird house look
ing as though 1t were built on the
leaning tower Of Pisa but occupied
nevertheless by numerous late sum-
mer tourists. There were four win.
dows across the front, uncurtained1
why have them anyway to shut out
the air and sun, and the front veran.
da lacked the swing or chair but was
enjoyably occupied at any rate by
what must have been stanch members
OF the Chirp and Argue Club
The Jewish people will on Sunday
evening September sixteenth, enter
their houses of worship to usher in
their Rosh Hashanah or New Year,
567S. which marks the cycle of the
sacred observances held during the
month OF Tishri, the seventh month
of the Jewish calendar. While every
New Moon in ancient times, was greet
ed by the sounds of the Shofar (trum.
pet), the seventh month or new moon
coming after six months OF work in
the fields, was welcomed with religl.
Gus exercises as month OF rest and
recreation by the agricultural inhabi-
tants of Palestine. Numbers X. 10.)
The Jewish New Year is known
by different names and each expresses
something of its spiritual significance.
Numbers xxx. l, designates it as the
Day Of Blowing the Trumpet" (Sho.