Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-11-06
Getting Chilly.
THE MEANS OF KEEPING WARN.
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune
Chilly, a.; cool moderately cold, such as
to cause shiye-ing as, a chilly day, night,
or air. Thus it is that the great unabridged
defines 4 word which is now much in the
mouths of everybody, and especially in COM
pany with the mullins. Now it is that we
begin to wonder whether Just a pint or so
of warm water would not make a grateful
addition to the pre-breakfast bath whether
We shall not tell Mary Chambermaid to put
a cover or two more upon the bed; whether
it is advisable to leave the top sash of the
window little down during the night as
usual whether we shall start the furnaces
and acknowledge that winter is here. Now
Is the lover of Shakespeare frequently re-
scene ''liG mlet-The air bites shrewdly :;
it is very cold. Horatio 1t is a nipping and
an eager air" We are driven by it into a
fuss Of preparation. In small way we are
like poor DIR. Kane slowing and fitting his
little bark for hyperborean adventure. Yes :;
frost and snow and congelation are at hand /;
the nights of : above 0 or | : below are
steadily sweeping toward a present of low
temperature and daylight of nine or ten
hours duration. We can play the summer
| Sybarite no longer: we are reminded that
| the old Mortimer were our cousins the
winter comes All through honest October
we 90 through our preparation like 50 many
| Robinson CruSoes. We get in coal We at
tend to the furnaces. We put up the storm
! door and the double windows We furnish
and fortify as for a siege. For the winter
Is at hand.
1t is curious to think as we grow more
and more homeish in our feeling, with the
abbreyiating DAYS, how with the perfection
Of modern improvement We have abolished
the fresde, which glows and radia:es now
only in poetry We are fire-worShipers pure
and simple no l0nger-we are only n sect of
that per,uation, the devotees of hot air
Seated around a register or a stoye, may be
We love each other quite aS well. but the fire
place brought play of fancy, and old roman
tie dreams it was plain and honest, and
not in the least scientific until DR.. Franklin,
who meddled with everything, put in an
iron back with pair Of iron wings, and
from that time to this we have sought in
ycntionS Of caloriticatiOn. until their name
is considerably more than legion. Now Is 1t
tLat the newspapers are full of the literature
of stove advertising. The best burner hard
" tayS in fashion longer than woman's
drcS- We are old enough to remember
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