GLIMPSES OF AUTUMN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 15

GLIMPSES OF AUTUMN

Pixie People: — The city roofs stretch,, wet and shining, far beneath the Ring today (in the middle of the first holiday week), and down below the tramcars drone through the misty streets like clumsy, amber bees. Our holiday visitors this morning were cosily wrapped in "wet-weathers" from top to toe, and brightened the day with their chatter and their stories of adventures between the showers. Two carried scrapbooks under their arms .. . lovely big ones, full of colour and jokes and stories, and I know there are many others being made for Birthday Page at the end of May.

A jqg-your-elbow letter tonight, my elves . . . three jogs there must be .. .one for scrapbooks, two for Birthday Page stories, poems, and drawings, and three for Autumn Page. Yesterday, in two different parts of the city, I found places where the Autumn Maid had passed with her golden touch; one an avenue of cherry trees, shaking metal-gold leaves in the rain, another a garden, set between high, grey buildings, where hydrangeas grew in arches of misty colour, like little lost rainbows, and every tree and bush was brushed with bronze. So hurry, Ring People, and make your pencils ivork as. quickly as the Autumn Elves' paint-brushes.

Good-bye till next Saturday.

FAIRIEL.