The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-26

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with the work of dealfpctio4, It is i'm.
1possible to form any ide9 the amount
of goods stolen, but hundreds of thou
sands would not cover the loss.
Midsummer Madness.
It is very little hot weather, on the
whols, that comes to us in the North
1.-TWO or three spells, usually not d week
long, in the entire four months Of that
only time in the year which we may not
call wfntef-and what d fuss we make
about it, complaining and sighing and
fretting and tanning and bathing! And
i yet there is no season that is so truly
Elysian, if We know how to manage it,
as the hot season, if we wore clothes to
suit it, modified our behavior to its action,
dropped our eager pursuits for while,
and lived out of doors twice asmucb ss
we donoH.
To be out Of doors, in the shadow where
there is almost always little stir of the
air, if only the rising of the hot and the
falling of the less hot is the only way to
themselves entirely wilted down by hot
without feeling it, to speak of, if they only
chance to have had whole heaven to
bathe in in the time The mind has
] everything to do with the body, and where
wallis and ceilings oppress, the boundless
vault of sky and wide horizon seems so
vast and airy that life must needs be de-
| llightful beneath it, and one is all the
time, when out of doors, receiving more
oxygen into the blood and so being
| Strengthened to endure the assaults of the
sun without surlendering.
There are great differences, however,
| in the heat Of different sections of the
country, we know. The heat of Wash
ington, where, although wind always
blows-it is sometimes a siroceo-is
worse to bear than the heat OF Texas,
where, Under vertical sun, the cool
Gulf breeze moves steadily for more than
three hundred mifes into the interior.
And even when one does not like the sen.
sations of great heat, yet to 60 to bed
with the thermometer at 19s deg, and
wake in the morning with it at SO deg,
as one frequently does in Washington, is
debilitating to body and soul; and hot as
it is at midnight, one is appalled, to think
of the unerring certainty with which the
sun will rise in the morning.
Yet if one wete faifiy to Weigh in the
balance the disadvantages Of hot weather,
the pricking of this heat. the sweltering
of that, together with the discomforts of
perspiration, with the advantages of it all,
the delight of the eyes in the beauty of
midsummer, the comfort of body and
soul in pleasant driving and sailing, the
delieiousness of the soft and radiant moon
lights, the room for youths romance, and
the tihge to middle life id the retiieni.
brance of youth'sromance, the long morn
ings and evenings, and the utter freedom
of existence in summer, we would really,
there is but little doubt, desire to reverse
the usual order of things with us in these
latitudes, and have eight months of sum.
mer instead of winter; rs al that TIME
which is not summer may fairly be in
cluded under the head OF winter and his
retinue.
We seldom hear the natives, or even the
residents, of what are called the hot coun-
tries, complain of the heat; they dress as
the heat requires they should they keep
out of the SUN at mid. day; but, for the ball
ance, they like it; as flowers blossom In
it, SO do they seem to find It grateful ID
them. It is true that the temperature Of
the extremely hot countries seems to sting
the blood of the people into spasms Of |
fierceness when warfare comes, and they
are said to possess certain cruelty all |
their own; but otherwise its effect is that
only of indolent enjoyment on those who
are able to command Incidence ami yet |
the industries OF those lands, 1t is to be fe- |
mem bered, is the most laborious and un- |
weafying OF all industries, as Indian and |
Chinese workmanship testify.
In our own Southern countries the life |
of the heat is tolerably delightful one.
Almost everywhere the Atlantic or the |
Gulf breeze blows all night; people rise |
and breakfast in many places under the |
glories of sunrise, and are off for their
walk or their drive in the cool and the dew;
at ten O'Clock blinds are closed, the world |
retires; al five o'clock the suns power is
well gone, the wind blows, people come
out on their galleries and see their friends,
and the long delicious evening pays for
the hot noon siesta, and more than paws.
The worst that can be said of hot wealth.
er is that it enervates and predisposes to
idlenessi it is not only that it is painful to
work in it, but that the heat iS SO enioya-
BILE when idle that one must idle to enjoy
it; and SO great deeds, great inventions,
great undertakings, are left to be born in
temperate climates. Yet the hot coun.
tries are the mother.l .landsuf great passions
and emotions, and all the prevailing re
ligions of the world had their origin
among them.
Although it seems, after all, strangely
wrong thing for US to have any vital hos.
tility to the sun, that vicegerent of crea-
ton, our life-giver and preserver, yet the
results of too great familiarity with him
are not inviting. To be sure, when we
see the flowers expand under his power
and reyel in it, tte trees lift all their
leaves, the birds darting with widespread
wings in it, we feel as though all they
we're nearer to the great heart of nature
than we are, and we wonder what we
might not become if we lived in it as they
DO; yet when we see the African and the
American beneath the equator, friends of
he sun if he can claim any, we are not
;empted to follow their example. There
IS happy mean in all things, and that
mean is not found at the equator or -at the
North Pole; one does hot desire either the
hick sheltering skin of the African, or
he dwarfed stature of the Greenlandcr,
whose withered system is starved of sun
'hine. The race of beauty. of endurance,
# success, is born where the sun stim-
llates but does not shrivel; nevertheless,
t takes good deal of the sun; to stim-
llate-as much, we think, as we can get
q bot weather. Indeed, we doubt if any
health and vigor could really
,e felt where. one never had the i'll humors
arefield and eyaporated out of the system,
s yapor baths expel them, or as devour-
ng fever is checked by inducing copious
Many people have dislike to hot
Weather merely on account of what they
all their looks, the too ruddy, too shining,
aces, the hair that loses crimp and curl,
he muslins that lose stiffness. But the
Vhole secret OF looks lies at first In not ex
rting ones self more than is meet, and,
t last and above all, in not fretting about
hem; for, while one is Indifferent, one Is /
'lacid and pleasant; as warm as one may
%, when one worries, one is rendered
loubly as warm by the process. When
nc can be Indifferent to looks in this re-
ard, and is not unpleasantly affected
physically by heat, one can take comfort
q the expansion of high temperature,
nd in all the charm of outdoor life and
novement that it allows and occasions.
md, for our own part, to tell the truth,
Then we think of slippery falls, wet feet
nd plumbers bills, and then think Of
be freedom and ease with which people
Tander, uncloaked and unbonneted, and
rithout dream of overshoes, in the De-
3ctable Country, the Hills OF Beulah, the
!lystan Fields, or the Happy Islands Of
1frza's Dream, we are sure that Is be-
ause alI those blessed regions have no