Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-14
.EEPTENEEE il. 1877
FRIDAY
NOTES AND QUERIES.

have a tendency to take a retrospective turn,
va I'D with semi-rehective meteorological
weakness. Thus, this Querist 6nds himself
dwelling in the Past what time he is not tax
ing upon himself the colors and tones of the
surrounding air and light. This would seem
to indicate a cross between an ingrained cid
fogyism and a somewhat barometrical suscep-
tibiity. Doubtless love for the Past is one
of those natural, solacing refugee OF thought
which come to reassure and cheer those who
are conscious of growing old and gradua ~
moving away from the land marks cherished
by self-consequencs and a speculative habit
which suggests what might have been. As to
the effects of climate upon the human fabric,
snt the theory thoroughly accepted one
Certain classes of men can no more be born
and bred in the valleys than certain noun
tain plants can be nurtured. The high
lands, the lofty tops of hardly accessible peafs
have always afforded rot snly peculiarly
pure air and water, hardy trees and vigorous
grasses and flowers, but brave, espirited,
strong iimbed men and women, as well And
SO, men. born amid fogs and salt sea breezes
are of q different type from these whose lives
are passed amid sunshine and the gentler airs
of inland Yales. If these are mere trrisnns,
(Which this scribe hGstens to adInit), they
prove what we have limited At, namely, That
we, (that is to say, the collective and compre
hensible We which stands for mankind in
generaD, are honest or roguish, poetical or
prosy, good naturcd or Ill tempered, good,
bad or Indifferent as the weather affects that |
delicate fabric Of the system which acts upon
the mental processes and the moral qualities |
just as governor acts on steam valve. |
To be benighted and chilled to the bone and |
wet with rain and a long way from home, and |
bad night before him, will transform deli
cately constituted moral teacher into mean,
cruel, selfish, more than half dishonest casta-
way, while such conditions, ON the other hand
are like to deveope all the more generous and
heroic qualities of the felonious, tbs criminal
and the prowlng These lifeess north winds
that sweep so mercilessly across the plains and
hillsides of Nevada, are, We venture to assert,
to be charged with quite as much responsible
ity for the enactment Of crime as rum and
riot. There is deal of wickedness in term
of dust and sand One of these days, when
this Annotater arrives at that blissful age {
when morning gowns and stedy chairs and ;
the leisure of libraries, and the restfulnt So eff
retiracy have come, he proposes to dig down
into the statistics and the science Of sociology
and determine, 50 far as possible, what are the S
relative records Of badness of human action f
between Septe1lbers that have been pleasant '
and Septembers that have been disagreeable l
between October and February er August and c
April, in givon isothormal belt, in this re-
gard We should expeC. to find some such |
charges as these Pleasant showsry Soptsm
Der with light afternoon breezes and bal1sy +
days and nights, much development of poetry,
music and art, accompanied by very light
sprinkles of cheating, forgery and theft Per =
contra A blustery, blue, cold month, with $
crab apple cribbage parties Of Wrangling old II
maids, indoors, destruction to the contents a
of clothes-ines, hats and shingles, out Of I
doors, and fearful record OF arrests at the II
Police magistrates And 50 on, through the u
calender. The homeoPathists hold to the c,
OF IdLllll6Idn 1ucI UlSCul9uISASC II
German theorist found that it was the in6ni-
tessimal particles Of drugs and herbs and -,
chemicals which produced the effects sought n
for by the physician. We believe that bad, 1,
chilling wind, blowing treacherously through &
a clear autumnal sky contains millions Of lit al
tie germs of what is vulgarly but expressively
called cussedness. We believe that amiable
men may be tempted to commit murder at ~
such times; for there is homicide and all the 4
of violence in a neuralgia, a q,
rheumatism or a toothache. With regard to ~
he Past-the other condition and premi-e Of
his disquisition, it is worth much for what it ~,
IAN fetch. 1--WE might state the conclusion q,
clearer perhaps, and seem less sloveuly of It
conclusion and asservation.) The Past, II it co
be pleasant e,-and the mellowing hues Of
the aim distance make it seem so-takes US i,
away from the trying Present and soothes at
wounded vanity as it makes us forget for the Pc
moment the pains and twinges of our weather
pound surroundings. Thus the very aridness
# the present season suggests other aud kind
Ter Septembers, and sunny curls and light
ONE laughter and innocent love-making, and
he gathering of the early autumn flowers. TT
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