The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-09
Zero Weather and the Sleigh Bells.

Vennor's prediction that the goth of
january would lnaugurate the coolest
week OF the season stamps him as a
prophet not without honor in his own
country. Estimating the recent polar
wave at its full dimensions, the winter
of 1928 bears witness to an unprec-
edented crop of Arctic weather. No
decent Esquimaux would turn up his
nose at ountry with a record Of. six
.ty-four degrees. below zero, as reported
from Kokomo, Colorado, and we fail to
see the utility of polar expeditions
when we can find section of the
"real original Z pole in a palace car
without being thumped around by ice
bergs, or driven into six months win
ter quarters. okomo is in Summit
| County, and evidently "peaks'' itself
ON elevation. If the clerk of the
weather there was not himself unduly
elevated he owns the ''boss f" Their
mometer, and has taken advantage of
the situation to advertise Kokomo as
the coolest summer resort.
But notwithstanding the discomforts
of severe and snowy winter, it has its
abundant compensations. 1t is pro-
I NGIUldl1y bnC 1OIGIul1IlCl Ol oil CARLY
spring aprolonged and healthy summer,
and the guarantee of timely and album
dant cross. The days are short the
nights are long, and it is especially the
season of public intellectual culture,
public hospitality, coavivial reunions and
quiet domestic enjoyments. The ex-
Vibrating sound OF the sleigh-bells fills
/ the crisp winter air; and the fortunate
/ possessors of horse flesh take their fill
/ of recreation on the road. This may
not be equal in the city to the like rec
re alton in the country, where the ro-
bust rustic speeds over the smooth road
with his rosy Dulcinea to the spelling
school or the pa iring-bee, snugly en-
sconced beneath the shaggy buffaIorobe
in the Anticipated family sleigh, where
/ there is bed of snow two feet
thick, worn hard and smooth, and
where the road goes up hill and down
dale. past Immaculate fields and through
/ snow-plumed and ieicle- gemmed woods.
The very air is. stimulating almost to
the point OF a genial and wholesome in
toxication. If it be on moonlight
night, the glitter of the stars and the
simmer of the snow produce the effect
of fantastic realm where no hint of
care or trouble mars the serenity of
| life. This is a Joy unknown in the noisy
city and its well trodden ways.
But in the streets of the thriving city
and the thronged roads that lead through
the outlying suburbs. there is a life and
hustle that give an excitement tosleigh-
riding which it does not have in the
country. The variety of eJuipages on
runners, the multitudinous sounds of
many bells, the crack of The whip and
the glee of the riders, compare with the
swift but solitary country sleigh-ride as
the stir and hustle of urban life to the
monotony of the farm and the village.
/ Sleigh-riding gives an enlivening aspect
| to our Northern cline which goes far to
compensate for the rigors with which it
is accompanied. This driving in the
open air in winter gives vigor and health
to the system, otherwise faded by con-
slant work and unremitting cares. To
/ those who can afford the luxury, it
brings a full equivalent for the outlay.
Even those who cannot afford a turnout
of their own are not wholly deprived of
the stimulating effect of the iingling
bells and the seurrying teams which
make the highways lively, and by STIR
ring the otherwise too quiet pool of mem
DRY, make it glitter with the wavelets OF
remembered joys, = Chicago Peoples
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