The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 43, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ANG! goes anotlier of our
Illusions! It is in regard to
that pleasant period in au-
tumn, known as Indian sum-'
iner. And as usual, It is sci-
ence which has disillusioned
us. No less an authority than
the United States Weather
bureau, basing Its statement
upon accurate meteorological observa-
tions, has this to say about that
H delectable season, famed for its genial
sunshine and alluring haze:
Indian summer is the name applied
in this country to a period of mild fall
weather following a spell of unseason-
able cold weather known as "squaw
winter." such as occurred this fall. It
is not a fixed season in the calendar.
In many years It is Intermittent;
that is. there may be several Indian
summers in one autumn. Thoreati in
notes on weather conditions at Con-
cord. Mass., from 1S51 to 18C0, records
the occurrence of Indian summers on
dates ranging from September 27 to
December 13.
In Europe as well as in this coun-
try it is popularly believed that a re
newal of mild weather occurs every au-
tumn. and the dates of its supposed
occurrence arc more definitely fixed
than is the case in America. Tlx-
period is associated with the names of
various saints.
The mild period thus, is known in
different parts of Europe as ^St. Mar-
tin's Summer," "St. Luke's Summer" o,
"St. Michael's Summer." and tradition
fosters the idea that it is always mild
and warm, about the time of these
various saints' days. Climatolo^icai
facts, however, do not always square
with this belief.
Indiau summer has always been a
favorite theme of artists and .jK>ets,
especially the latter who, however,
have usually been better verse mak-
ers th.'tn meteorologists. "When was
the red man's summer';" asks Lydia
Huntley Sigourney, "the Felicia He-
mans of America" and one of the early
Nineteenth century poets. Then, with-
out trying to fix the date in one of
her poems, she says it came
When the proves
In fleeting colors wrote their own de-
cay:
When with heart
Foreboding or depressed, the white
man marked
The signs of coming winter, then began
The Indian's joyous «eason.
John O. C. Brainerd, a contempo-
rary of Mrs. Slgourney, is more spe-
cific In placing the season at the time
When the frost
Turns into beauty all October's charms.
Longfellow Axes the season about
the first of November in a passage in
his "Evangeline" as follows:
Then followed that beautiful Season.
Called by the pious Acadian peasants
the summer of All Saints.
Filled was the air with a dreamy and
mimical light; and the landscape
L.«y «s If new-rreated in all the fresh-
ness of childhood.
Since election day comes In Novem-
ber, the following quotation from
Wliittler'B, "The Eve of Election" also
places Indian summer In that month;
From Hold to gray
Our mild «weet day
Of Indian summer fadea too tooa;
But Underly
Above the sea
Hangs, white and calm, the hunter's
moon.
In Its pale fire i
The village spire
Shows like the zodiac's spectral lance;
The painted walls
Whereon it falls
Transfigured stand in marble trance!
Stephen Ilenry Thayer puts It a lit-
tle later in the month when he says
that
It is in the autumn's dotage, mid No-
vember,
When skies, seductive, seem to woo
the earth.
Other poets, however, are more con-
cerned with what it is rather than
when it is and have given us some
charming descriptions. Sam Walter
Foss, In his inimitable dialect, calls
it "a piece of sweetmeat" in the fol-
lowing verse:
"Natur," the good eld school-marm
' who pities our distress.
She gives her children every year a
little glad recess; #
An' ol' gray-headed boys and girls
they feel their hearts thaw out,
An' life flows on as musie'ly as wa-
ter from a spout;
An' now the Ingin Summer time, 'ith
all its rest is here,
A piece of sweet meat stuck between
the slices of the year;
A sorter reign cr jubilee 'twixt snow
an' thunder showers;
A chunic of sweetness sandwiched In
between the frost and flowers.
Nor were the early American poets
the only ones who paid their tribute,
as witness the following by Marian
Isabel Angus:
INDIAN SUMMER
Indian summer broods today
Over the mellow autumn lands,
Soft wispy veils of amethyst
And amber pale stream from her
hands.
Vines hang heavy with purple grapes;
Apple trees bend with crimson gem.",
And in the woods the preat oak trees
Are crowned with golden diadems.
Like topazes the pumpkins lie
Set in a ring of brown and ureen,
And mock the sun, while slender spears
Of goldenrod make gay the scene.
Nature is drowsy; her work is done,
Now slie awaits her winter rest;
Harvest Is over; the tired brown earth
Will sleep with red leaves on hef
breast.
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And Minna Irving paints this gayly-
colored word picture of
INDIAN BLANKETS
Sumac fires are burning brightly,
Ruby-red the embers glow,
Indian council fires rekindled
From the ash of long ago;
And the wind's a runner passing
With his feet in deerskin shod,
And a chief's tall feather tosses
In the dusty goldenrod.
Wild grapes ripen In the thicket,
I'urplc asters edge the stream,
And the braves to earth returning
By the moon'a enchanted beam
Hang their red and yellow blankets
On the windy maple bough
When the frosty night Is over,
For it'a Indian summer now.
Another famous dialect poet, Frank
L, Stanton, writing of Indian summer
In his native state of Georgia, declares
that
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And I could keep on droamln' till I
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And Cornelia R. Doherty calls it the
season
WHEN THE ACORNS DROP
There's a whisper on the hilltop and
a murmur in the wood,
There's a dream of golden glory ev-
erywhere;
On the beech a russet cover, on the
elm a mottled hood,
While the walnut lifts her branches
brown and bare.
Oh. the crows hold their meeting In
the old oak's top.
And ho, for Indian summer when the
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There's a bloom upon the meadow like
the ghost of summer flowers.
But the forest and the valleys ar«
aflame.
And on hillside and in hollow through-
out all the misty hours
Descend the rustling drops of au-
tumn rain,
Oh, the squirrel's nt his feasting in the
old oak's top.
And ho, for Indian summer when the
acorns drop!
Wften the chestnut and the hazelnut
put on a richer brown.
And the blackbirds all are gathered
in a flock.
When mallow-in-the-marshes buttons
up her yellow gowns,
Then it's time to heap the fodder in
a shock.
Oh, autumn's on her waning; bettor
gather in the crop!
And ho, fbr Indian summer when the
acorns drop!
Eut not all the beautiful tributes to
Indian summer have been in verse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, writer of de-
lightful prose as well as poetry, in his
essay on the seasons, says:
In October, or early in November,
after the "equinoctial storms," comes
the Indian summer. It Is the time to
ho In the woods or on the seashore—
a sweet season that should be given
to lonely walks, to stumbling about in
old churchyards, plucking on the way
tlij aromatic silvery herb everlasting,
and smelling nt Its dry flower until it
etherizes the soul into aimless reveries
outside of space and time. There U
no need of trying to paint the still,
warm, misty, dreamy Indian summer in
words, there are many states that hav«
no articulate vocabulary, and are only
to be reproduced by music, and the
mood tlila season produces is of that
nature.
In "The Gunrdlan Angel" lie contin.
ties on that theme thus:
To those who know the Indian sum-
mer of our northern states it is need-
less to describe the influence It exerts
on the senses and the soul. The still-
ness of the landscape in that beautiful
time Is as if the planet were sleeping,
like a top, before it begins to rock
with the storms of autumn. All na-
tures seem to find themselves more
truly In its light; love grows more
tender, religion more spiritual, mem-
ory rieea farther back into the past,
grief revisits Its mossy marbles, tin
poet harvests the ripe thoughts which
he Will tie in sheaves of verses by hia
winter fireside. •
And In "Elsie Vetiner" he refers
again to this season by declaring that
"The real forest Is hardly still except
In Indian summer; then there Is death
in the house, and they are nulling for
the sharp shrunken months to come
with white raiment fur the summer's
burial."
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 43, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 1929, newspaper, October 22, 1929; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340710/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.