The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-07-29
The weather.

The following discussion took place in
street Jar recently
'Pretty warm, the man with the thin
clothes said to the man in the corner seat
a. the South Hin car was coming down
the Division street steps.
What pretty warm r growled the man
in the corncr.
Why, the weather
What weather. more grufiiy than ever
"Why, the man with the thin clothes
said looking a though he wished he hadn
begun it. this weather
~Wel saia the man in the corner,
'.how's this weather different from any
osher2'
Z The nan with the thin clothes looked
nervoa-ly at the dumb mule aud said, .'It
was warmer
Hos Do you know il is p asked the
man in the corner
The ether man began to wish he was well
out Of it and said h. supposed il was; he
hadn't heard bow the
.Isns the weather the same everywhere
sayaeely demanded the man in the corner.
Why. no, the man with the thin clothes
replied. wishing 10 goodness be had news
paper "a hide behind .'no; It's warmer some
plaggs. snd somc PLACES its cooler.
What makes It warmer IN some places
than is cooler in others rcInorseleszly
pursued the man in the corner.
WHY. the uan with the shiR clothes
said piss-o.'sly, ''the sun, the effects Of the
safss heat.
Makes i eosslcr IN some places than its
warlner in oshers ruared the man in the
errneF Indignantly Never heard Of such
a thing
No, the man with thia elothcs hasten
ed to explain. Il didn't mean that The
sun makes Il warmer
Then what makes It esoier pursued
the rensorss.lc.s mao in the corner.
The man IN the thin clothes wiped the
beaded lerspiratiou from his paliid brow.
and said slowly he gt,ssssi il was the-iee
What ice demanded the in4uisitor.
why. the victim said, with every
symptom Of approaching dissolution appsr-
ent in his tremulous vniee. The ice that
-frpzen--fruzcr- the fu~i.
aDid you ever sc any ice that wasn't
frozen hoEIed the man IN the sprper, in
4 fine burst of dsrizion.
The man in the thin clothes huskily
whispered that he wished be was dead, and
said. No; that rs, he believed he didn't =
Then, ,hundercd the man in the cor
neT, what are you talking about
The Han IN thin elothes then made an
effort 20 brace up, and spieily replied that
be was trying to talk about the weather.
sAnd what do yen know about it p tri-
umph2ntly roarcd the man in the corner.
What do yoa know about the weather 2
The man in the thin clothes lost his grip
Ogain and ieebly said that she didn't know
very much about ii, that was fact And I
then he tried to BE- cheerful and work in
little joke about nobody being able to know (
much about the weather, but the man in 1
the corner sat down on him with tremen-
dous outburst
No, sir should say you didn't. You
come on this ear and forced yourself on the /
attention Of a stranger, and began 70 talk TO
me about the weather just as if you owned
it, and find you don't know a solitary
thing about the matter yourself selected for
your topic of conversation; you don't know
one thing about meteorological conditions,
principles or phenomena; you can't tell me
why it Is warm in August and cold in De-
cember, yoa don't know that icicles form
faster in the sunlight than they do in the
shade you don't know why the earth grows
colder a. il comes near the sun; You can't
tell why man can feel sunstroke in the
shade; you can't tell how cyclone Is form
ed nor how the trade winds blow; you
couldn't find the calm eentfA of storm if
your life depended on it; you don't know
what siroceo IS nor where the southwest
monsoon blows; YOU dom know the average
in the United States for the past
and current years; YOU don't understand the
formation of fog, and you can't explain why
the dew falls at night and dries up in the
day; you don't know why wind dries the
ground more than the hot sun; you don't
know one solitary thing about the weather,
and you are Just ike one thousand and one
other people who always begins talking
about the weather because they don't know
anything else, when by the caves of Boreas,
SIR, they Know less about anything else in
the world T
And the man in the corner glared up and
down at the timid passengers in the South
Hill car, but no man durst answer him
And as for the man in the thin clothes, he
didn't know for the life of him whether
he had sunstroke or an ague chill. He
only knew that it seemed about twenty
seven miles to the Jefferson street crossing
Hasokeye.