Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-08-12
THE WEATHER EIEND,
A Street Car Discussion Of an Everlast.
ing Topic.

Pretty warm" the man with the thin clothes
said to the man in the corner seat as the South
Hill car was coming down the Division street
steps.
What's pretty warm2' growled the man In
why, the weather"
"What weather." more gruf1y than ever.
Why" the man with the thin clothes said,
1t, this weather"
''Well." said the man i'm the corner. elbows
this weather any different from any other?"
The man with the thin clothes looked ner-
vousiy at the dumb mule and said, 1T was
warmer"
How do you know it is?" asked the man in
the corner.
The other man began to wish he was well out
of it, and said he supposed he was he hadn't
heard how the
Isn't the weather the same everywhere"
saVageiy demanded the man in the corner.
Why. no." the man with the thin clothes re-
piled. wishing to goodness he had newspaper
to hide behind. "No; it's warmer in some
places, and in some places it's colder"
What makes it warmer in some places than
it's colder in others?" remOrselessy pursued
the man in the corner.
"Why," the man with thin clothes said pit
eously, the sun, with the effects of the suns
heat"
Makes it colder in some places than it's
warmer in Others?" rOared the man in the cor
ner Indignantly. "Neyer heard of such
thing"
No." the man in thin clothes fastened to
explain, 81 didn't mean that The sun makes
it warmer"
"Then what makes it cOlder?" pursued the
remOrseless man in the corner.
Tie man in thin clothes wiped the beaded
perspration from his palld brow and said
slowly he guessed cit was the ice"
"What ice ?" demanded the inquistOr.
why. the victim said. with all symptoms of
approaching dissolution apparent in his tremu-
lOus voice. 1.-The ice that was-frOzen-froZen by
the FROST
Ibid you ever see any ice that wasn't frozen?"
hoWied the man in the corner in burst OF de-
rision.
The man in thin clothes huskily whispered
that he wished he was dead, and said: mo, that
is he believed he didn't - -
Then Numbered the man in the corner,
what are you talking about?"
Inc man IN thin clothes then made an effort to
brace up, and spclly replied that he was trying
to talk about the weather"
And what do you know about ft?" trium-
phantly reared the man in the corner. what
do you know about the weather."
The man in the thin clothes lost his grip again.
and feeby said "he didn't know very much
about it. that a fact" And then he tried to
be cheerful and work in a little joke about no.
body being able to know much about the
weather, Uul Tie man In the corner sat down on
him with a tremendous OutburSt.
NO. sir! should say you didn't. You come
into this car and force yourself on the attention
OF stranger, and begin to talk to me about the
weather. just as though you owned it, and L
find you don't know solitary thing about the
matter yourself selected tor your topic of con-
versation: you don't know one thing about me
neurological conditions. principles, or phenOm-
ena: you can't tell me why it is warm in August
and cold in December; you don't know iccles
form faster in the sunlight than they do in the
shade; you don't knowwhy the earth grows colder
as it comes nearer the sun; you can't tell why a
man can be sun struck in the shade; you can't tell
me how cyclone is formed nor how the trade
winds blow: you couldn't find the calm center of
storm if your life depended on it; you don't
know what a siroccO is, nor where the southwest
monsoon blows; you don't know the average
rainfall in the United States for the past and
current year, you don't understand the fOrma-
ZION OF fog and you can't explain why the dew
1alls at night and dries up in the day; you don't
Know why wind dries the ground more quickly
tiian hot sun; you don't know one solitary
thing about the weather, and you are Just like
thousand and one other people who always be-
gin talking about the weather because they don't
know any thing else, when, by the cave of Boz
Teau Sir, they know less about the weather
than they do about anything else in the world"
And the man in the corner 4sl1Eedi uA} and
down at the timid passengers in the, South Hill
car. but no man burst answer him. And as for the
man in thin clothes. he didn't know for the life
OF him whether he had sunstroke or an aeue
chill. He only knew that it seemed about 81
miles to the Jefferson street crossing.-Burling-
tom Haukeye.