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SECTION 2 - PAGE 1 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, lfll Out-Of-Door Miracles Evident In Community (by Father Wm O. Hanner, pastor emeritus of Holy Comforter church, Episcopal, Kenilworth) In these fall days I have walked on Whispering Oaks Island often. Mrs. Hanner went with me one day. It was warm, clear and bright. She was much interested in the dry weeds that abound. We pulled one here, another there. Once they had been wild flowers-weeds-or summer foliage. Now she plucked them for a church bazaar. Can you imagine? Yet that is just what happened. They make "dried arrangements" and people buy them for winter decorations. It happens all over the United States and it happens every year. When the wind has borne off the freighted fuzz of the milkweed and pod left behind can become all manner of things. Ladies in every town make them, sell them, buy them. The cross country runners were out. As they run the 'cdursfeV roughly half a mile in three sort of loops, they appear to cross and recross each other's paths. They don't really, it is a trick of the eye when you are away a quarter of a mile. But it makes an in­ teresting moving design, like dancers weave about a stage. At that distance you do not hear the plodding, weighty footfalls nor the heavy breathing, it looks easy and beautifully executed. A few run on their toes as a runner should and these lead the van. We stop to watch a spider. It is perched atop a mullen stalk. Somehow he has a single strand of silk that reaches to another stalk five feet away. How did he make the span? It was never done on the ground, too thick with tall grasses, he would have had snares and snags. Did he start the strand and then unfurl it from his body till the wind secured it five feet away? I'll never know and I need not. Every professional has his secret tricks and lore. I meet my neighbors. Here is Mike Erickson. He has caught a fish that is nineteen inches long. I watch him measure it. I have seen him catch larger ones but he is proud of this one too. It looks like a gar, pickerel or pike with its long snout as it lies flopping on the ground. Again I meet Dagfin John- stad, who lives with his wife over on Wiltshire. We stop to visit about Norway, Kenilworth, the blindness of those who miss the mysteries of the Island and have no eyes to see its sights nor ears to hear its mysterious sounds. Seven ducks in flotilla maneuver like a stately squadron. Their admiral, the purple headed drake, shepherds them about. When man appears they are airborne, the admiral bringing up the rear and guarding the air evacuation. Over on the east side and way to the south the stream is but a rill, here is from one to two feet wide. The grasses and reeds are above my head. Around a POET'S CORNER THE OLD MAN I used to know an old man who could see with his hand I used to listen to him read even tho he didn't have much speed and when we talked we both agreed I could tell he was lonely but so was I and he could always help when I had to cry One day they told me he was gonna die I went to see him, he took a long deep sigh He took me by the hand and when he spoke he told me he could see I asked him how can this be and just right then he died on me And now when I'm old and grey I understand what he meant that day The touch of his fingers were the pupil of his eye His mind was like a canvas and he painted everything he saw until the day he had to die Murray Alford Means Of Travel little bend is a bed of several square feet of water cress. Yes, there is I tasting it. Watercress sandwiches,- very refreshing. Tasty in a salad. All summer the white flowered wild cucumber has had the rw of the banks of the stream. They are gone now and the vines are sere and brown. Byt the cucumbers, now seed pods, are protected by some ineffectual spines. Their seeds are gone. We gather these wombs of next year's plants to help in our dry bouquets. Their real work is done. Now with the milkweed pods, the dry mullen, we assemble material for the bazaars of church and club. The remnants of other visitors are all about. The sodden remnants of what once con­ tained cigarettes, a used film cartridge, a bag that had had lunch therein, beer and soft drink cans empty, rusting and forlorn, score the out of doors with refuse. There is the remnant of the spool on which, fish line had been wound. Everyone loves the out of doors. There are no marvels to compare with the marvels of creation. The vast stellar spaces that surround us wherein the centuries are but an instant, and in man's mind cannot appreciate the distances, are a miracle. Yet a gnat, whose life is but a few hours long, boasts a wing, whose design rivals that of the aficient planet's courses. And amidst the apparently insoluble problems of humanity moves creatures whose con­ sciences tell them right from wrong. Let the atheist, the agnostic argue his case; I shall stand in awe of That that plans Artists Present First Indoor Fine Art Show Over thirty artists from Wisconsin and Northern Illinois will be featured in the first indoor fine art show presented by Northland Area Art League at Coventry school gym in Crystal Lake, from 3 until 8 on the gnat, the planets, the spaces, the eons, whom man calls God--let Him be served! Nov. 22, ana trom 11 a.m. until < p.m. on Nov. 23. Over fifty local patrons will preview the show on Saturday from 1 until 3 p.m. and make their purchase award selections from the oils, acrylics, watercolors, pen and inks, pencil and airbrush drawings, clay pieces, fiber artwork, and metal jewelery pieces. There will be no admission charge for viewing the show, and no commission charged on sales. The Art League presents this fine art showing as a service to its members end the public, and will be bringing outdoor arts and crafts shows to the area during the spring, sum­ mer and fall seasons. The Northland Area Art League presents monthly lectures as well as the art shows and offers a variety of other interesting projects to area artists and patrons. The next monthly lecture meeting is being held Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. at St. Mary's Church in Wood­ stock for those wishing to at­ tend. ORNSBY$ f a m i l y c e n t e r s ^ ^ ' -- P r i c e s e f f e c t i v e w h i l e . f y q u u n t ' t . e s l o s t W e r e s e r v e t h o r i g h t t o l i m i t Santa has visited Hornsby's and he unloaded quite a selection of new and spectacular games and toys for ' your little girls and boys. Come in and choose your gifts while the selection and variety are at their best. 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