Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

One aspect Of Autumn seldom touched
on is that then one starts to dress by
artificial light again. .
Summer has been with us so long
that we tend to overlook this simple
fact
If one eats breakfast around the
standard hour Of am, one must get
up in the dark.
There are advantages to this which
the late riser will never know.
1t is perhaps true that the person
who never gets up In the dark misses
something.
He misses the strange appearance OF
the landscape, which is forever de-
light to him whose appreciation of the
simple things of the everyday life has
not withered under sophistication.
| He misses the queer blend OF shadows
cast by houses, trees and shrubs with
the glorious slow increase in light as
natures greatest light comes up on an
awakening world.
The man who gets up early, follow
ing the injunction of that wise man,
Benjamin Franklin, may become neither
wealthy. healthy nor wise; but there is
one thing certain-he will see some
pretty outdoor pictures.
There is something about the early
morning hours which set them apart
from those of twilight, as beautiful as
the latter are and so enshrined in
poetry and song.
Somehow one may feel that dawn is
the better time, because it is becoming
lighter every minute, not darker. I'm
the cleaning" is lovely solely on &C
count of this very dawn which We
watch.
If it had not been for the sure prom
Use of dawn, the twilight hour would
never have come into the prominence
which it now enjoys with the majority
OF mankind.
Let us look upon the early morning
hours, then, as among the very finest
of the day, not only for what they are
in themselves, but because they are the
optimistic hours of the 24-the ones
in which light increases.
Morning Is the American part OF the
day. the booster portion, in which the
millions go forth to their labors.
In Spring and Summer most Of these
workers get up in the light, even II the
sun Is not far advanced: but when
Autumn and Winter come, with their
cold mornings, their winds, their over
coats, they find 1t dark.
If one is to enjoy the morning hours
to their full. it is essential that a
glance be cast outdoors the first thing
one gets up.
This puts one in tune with the very
day itself. 1t will not DO to leap out
of bed with protesting eyes, bent on
busting into ones clothes as fast as
possible.
That way a great deal is missed
which not only would prove helpful in
boosting the weary spirit of the man
in morning, but, above all. be CT inter
est to any human being who has not
lost, as We have said, the proper re-
spect due to all these forces in which
we live and move ana have our being.
This darkness is just such a dark
ness as covered the face of the earth
when God said Let there be light. "
The same. let it be said, with the ex-
ception of these streets, these houses,
these street lights.
Stars and moon are the same, the
earth is essentially the same. The very
same physical forces. as manifest in
wind and tide. play their tunes on the
narmonium Of the seasons.
1t is impossible to escape them If we
would. and the wise man would not If
he could. He is content to rejoice In
these simple but vast forces, never
ceasing to marvel at the strange truce