The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-25
WINTER IN LONDON.
Depressing Influence of Living Where There
IL no Sunshine for Weeks.

You awake in the morning, or are awak.
sned and that with difficulty, to open your
eyes upon a scene that makes you for time
disbelieve that it is day. Only the growing
sound of wheels, the increasing echo OF
street cries, and such like agreeable indica-
tons, persuade you that it is really o'clock.
You rise, not in the best of humors nor the
highest of spirits, and begin your morning
additions, but there are stages In this inter-
esting performance that cannot be got
through without the aid of adyentitious
light.
Even were you in full possession of your
faculties, it would not be nice or cheerful
But with the Thermometer at freezing point
or thereabouts, dry and drying north wind
finding its way through every nook and
creyice, and the atmosphere of a sub-fusque
tinge, the faculties at o'clock in the morn
ing remain dormant. By the time a man
has reached the stage at which his shirt col
lar has to be buttoned or adjusted, he is in
frame of mind not conducive either to
genial cow ersation or to cheerful rehec-
tons.
Breakfast may be the most friendly and
delightful or the most morose and gloomy
of meals, and under such detestable exter-
nal conditions as we have been describing it
is too often the latter Breakfast on o fine
day in the country suggests the top of the
morning." sunlight, freshness, and new
start in life. Then the morning meal is at
once q Joy in itself and an augury of greater
pleasures in store as the hours advance.
But who can be CHEEKY or sanguine when a
! funereal pail hangs over the coffee-pot and
its surroundings, and when, after pause of
silent hesitation somebody takes courage to
say, g. suppose we must light the gas" or,
Don't you think that we had better have
the lamp?" A meal thus heralded must be
a failure in the very nature of things, and
the sooner it is despatched the better Hap
Ply those who are compelled to ego out at
once, provided they have the lungs, the
legs, and the health to confront what they
encounter There can be no question that
the best remedy against low spirits of any
kind, and, most of all, against low spirits
! produced by diabolical weather, is vigorous
exercise. If a man can start away at a brisk
pace of four miles an hour, he will not have
completed his first half-mile without feeling
the thermometer not only of his blood but
of his spirits rising considerably. But there
are so many persons who cannot with any
comfort to themselves walk four miles an
hour. There are the other thousands who
/ would not if they could And there are the
remaining thousands of persons who have
not time to do so II they would. They have
to jump into the train. to hail the omnibus.
to bowl along i'll a hansom and every five
minutes spent in any of these modes of loco
motion represent so much more misery de-
preston, and disgust.
The best time of the day, to use Hiber-
nicism, is when the day is over and done
with, when there can no more be my pre-
tence of its being daylight, SO the blinds are
pulled down, tue shutters are put up, and
the gas, or lamps, or candles are lighted in
the ordinary course of things. Yet even
then sensitive nerves and sensitive skin,
know perfectly we'll what is going on with
out. Some of the lndrky atmosphere pene
trates through chinis ami GRANNY The pres
sure of week of suniesanrss invndes ever
the o'clock ten table aud is not Wloll'
forgotten when the dinner bell f4nss. faa
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