Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — The ‘‘Melancholy Days” Fail to Connect. [ARTICLE]

The ‘‘Melancholy Days” Fail to Connect.

This is supposed to be the time of year when the “melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear,” but so far these days are not melancholy, but remarkably bright and cheerful. The winds seem to have nothing special to wail about and are wailing very few wails, The woods, of course are showing some rather naked limbs, but like high class ballet dancers they are no way obtrusive about it. The meadows and pastures instead of being brown and sear are still decidedly green. As to the “cold November rain” which is also supposed to be very much in evidence along about this time, we have seen very little of it. Two thirds of the month are now gone, and we have had less than two thirds of an inch of rain, and no snow at all except a slight flurry or two on Thursday the L4th.