JUNIOR DOMINION

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)

JUNIOR DOMINION

Yellow Pumpkins and Golden Moon J)EAR Boys and Girls, — Can you guess what I saw last evening? 1 looked out my window just at that lovely twilit time and saw a great,. round, yellow harvest moon. I watched it move up from the hills ever so slozvly, and sail out questing adventure across the round basin of night. And as I gazed I wondered whether the Man in the Moon found you with heads upon pillows, hair mixed into a tangle of moonbeams, or following, as I did, his journey. Autumn brings such glorious colour —are you watching the leaves on the trees about your home just now? It seems a pity that the yellowing tips, the browns, russets, reds and. golds are so short-lived, but the tricky swish of autumnal breezes strips the trees of leaves as easily as it sends our hats bowling gaily around street corners. And. showers! Don t you love autumn showers? Perhaps it is because it is such a twi-seasonal time that rain comes down meshed in a twinkly veil of sunshine. It seems to me that elves are nearly always dancing in sunshowers, and in the pools they leave I have often thought I glimpsed a water sprite. Our harvest page is full of printed sunshine, as if everything just now had brought out all the stored-up sunshine from midsummer. Thanksgiving seems to go hand-in-hand with harvest time, when all the products of nature and summer sunshine have been gathered, in to store for winter; there are the yellowy spurs of wheat, plump maize, pumpkins gleaming roundly, rosy-ripe apples, fat, brown-gold onions; and it seems when we see it all we can do little else but offer up our thanks to the dear God who makes the earth give us such food. Let us eat lots of these good things, members, and store up

health for the rainy, •wintry season. Good harvesting to you all.