Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1918 — Enchantment of Winter. [ARTICLE]

Enchantment of Winter.

Every day we come in from the farm. Two mUes through tiie woods. Sometimes weAvalk, when the snow is too deep to run the machine. Some of our town friends are Inclined to pity us. They think ft is a hardship to walk over the hill, through the big woods. In the snow, with the thermometer afound zero. It all depends on how you look at it We find the country never so I>eautiful as in winter, when the snow falls. It is truly the land of enchantment Every hollow and every

thicket is peopled with mysteries—hidden things that charm, but do not threaten. In the early morning a purplish gray haze broods in the tops of the beeches. The silence is exquisite; almost you can hear the muted melodies of the woodland. The little cares, that engross us seem to fall away. ‘‘God’s in his heaven; all’s right with the world.” —Farm Life. • It is wonderful how much trouble an alarmist can make out of a fragment of war news.