The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-08
1t may be wholly unnecessary to com

1t may be wholly unnecessary to CON-
ment upon the temperature of yesterday,
which was fully up to regulation pitch
for celebration purposes. But when it is so
Internally hot that one can not think of any,
thing else but the heat, there is some excuse,
If not an absolute necessity for talking about
it. The fact is,it requires good deal of for
bearsnce to live in this world anyhow.
Within the short space OF three or four
months one is required to adapt himself to a
variation of between rs and 100 degrees of
temperature, and all the time to keen his
equanimity of temper. You are tempted
and tried at every point. If you put on a
clean collar, in half an hour all Won can
boast of is wet string around your neck; if
you dine at the hotel the perspiration falls
like Summer shower from the nose and
chin Of the darkey who brings your order,
and you feel certain that the odoriferous
drops sprinkle the roast, flavor the coffee
and salt the ice cream. You call at the door
of lady friends strictly on business, and
knock. From within issues a little screech,
there is rustic. and, after duly waiting, the
door is opened by one wearing a wrapper
which evidently does service for a whole
suit, just in time to give glimpse of white
drapery vanishing through the opposite
door. 1t is absolutely unsafe to 90 any,
where or look in any direction. Faith in
the Bible, which declares that you were cre-
ated from the dust of the earth, is under
mined by the palpsble fact that the chief
constituent of the human system is Juice.
which escapes from every pore, threatening
to leave nothing in few hours except
bones and a covering of skin. Strength
oozes out at the fingers ends, the mind
seems to evaporate carried away on wreaths
of respiratory vapor, the will leaves the
throne of authority and its power becomes
the sport of every conceit. Besides ali
these evils you are tormented with troops
of desires. You want something though
you can scarcely tell what. You want to
go away thousand miles, to escape from
yourself and everybody else. You want
cooling drinks and ices, you long to swim in
reservoir of lemonade and to suck straws
inserted in barrels of mint juleps; you want
ice creams and ell other ices: finally you
conclude that you want nothing at all but to
be let alone, so you can hide away
in some safe corner where the flies can't
find you. And so the day, which is interim
nably long, wears away at last. to bring a
night in which you begin by going to bed,
only to get up in twenty minutes Disguised
with the heat to try for nap on the sofa.
This don't suit more than ten minutes, and
then with pillow on the floor; that is tried
and proves little too hard. Sit up awhile
in the rocking chair and swing the fan
That is too much like work: then stick
your head out of the window and wish
you had hammock under tree. Thus
the night wears away, until near morning
you get asleep for an hour to be walked up
again by the festive Fly, sho is on duty at
daylight and paying particular
attention TO your nose while another
tickles your bare toes. Such
is life, and such the programme in
these sweltering times, when people think
they are having fun. Happy are they who
have sense enough to seek comfort by avoid
ing the discomfort of undertaking anything.