The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-27
HOT EAIHER IN THE VEST.
Its Peculiarities Graphically Described by
Ono Who Has Had Experience.

From III. Boston Transcript
No one who has not been through such a
heated season as they have had In the West
can quite understand what it means. Happily.
we have no such desert heats here. They do
not have them in the Southern States-at any
rate, not in the eastern Southern States. 1t is
only in the West and Southwest that those
torrid simoons OF temperature come.
over d ry land. itself heated to q high tenn
perature. blows wind from still drier and
hotter desert land. Hour after hour. day after
day. that steady scorchng wind comes down
from the psrched Western plains. 1t seems to
strike the face in singing particles a. II 1t were
n no, hliz5ard The sun Gevours one from
a6oye. TIE air bites h%ly az It nasses and the
seem TO prod ones flesh as il they were pitch
forks in The hands e those little imps OF an
the sun sets In 2 sea Of molten copper every
p GS ss TdsS al d You Do
not dare to look toward 1t: It seems as II
It We're coming down to eat YOU up. You
stagEer along through the street, with q wet
cloth in your hat shiyerng with heat. Yes.
gentle reader, shivering with heat. Perhaps
you nevor did that in NewEnRland perhaps you
never heard OF SUCH thing before. But II you
were on great Western plain IN one OF these
heated speLls you would soon learn Just what
companied by n sudden development OF goose
flesh creep along your skin under this horrible
wonder whether you are actually beginning to
parHollIand you stagGer on.
Tho nights are, II ANYTHING, worse than tho
days. You, fear to court sleep totally uncov-
cred. and drag the sheet llst!essly over your
sprGSSns form Van Too much II Is mpossi;
heavily, You get up and look out OF tho win;
have an air OF hooking you. The hot wind
s0nHhs steadily along from Ire sam m seatng
the mere look of these, however, reireshes you
4 little, And you steal back 10 bed
rs yon lie, down unon 1t, and you
vary the iiStless sweiter,nF monotony Of
q the bed to another. seeking cool spot
Presently you conclude that tho part OF tho
bed where YOU have boon lying while is
cool Il on a little with your body by lying It'll.
Why not You reason that your own tempcra-
Ing air has touched must be up to LOO at least
30 hayinS lIr,t obtained iTssh wet cloth Tor
c0yer rs mich Of tbs mnitrHss ns nossihIe and
suh-lde into porspiring inaction, Worry likely
yon fan once more into an uneasy sleep.
passes NJ nst ana you actually welcome tho
return of tho burning day; But, you g. out into
/ meet its tcrrors with than You had the day
before; lou ieel that l. yon could res' M night
yo sHa ~ f n IT Il
you with, insola'ion, The papers have li4ts
columns long Il peOplo struck down bY the
/. the situation. Whatever Of evil ana distress
thore s in this world how the newspapers DO
Rggrayatc il II YOU. did not know 50
manN people were dying OF sunstroko
In the town. perhaps you would not
turn were coming next. But the thing begins
TO strike right n ont you. Nothing moro terri;
BILE than I" SO" ono you love stagger and fall
before your ewes, within doors, surcumbing
right after ono of these terrible night TO the
invisible al-pervading influence OF the mn
ccasing heat. Your senses seem 10 weaken Mt
last Your hratn Doc mes dull and IN vel ng
You a'e conscious OF q steadily dlmini7hing
force, and feel with kind Of thick -witted ies-
perat on TINT Won must die before long,
You re.ort TO tho one hali-relreshlng thing
room IN The old listess way. Rising from It;
you seem 81 experience new sensnton OF
GOODNESS. You have taken bath every day
for a fortnight. hut you have experienced no
mean L. 1t the reaction that ptecodes col,
ynuI clothes hastily and so out: they are in-
snfi!cicnt.you Wish you had an over"oht, on
aud lo{ful people on the sidewalk dancing
and embracing, ono another lnn lock da'ed
and bew,ldored, Tho wave. The Manitoba
wave has come they eXclAim.
IT, the ba h, the wind has shifted, and. instead
OF Blowing In steady swell from the south
west # is coming in quick. cold gusts from tho
toha 1t seems like a tabled plnce; nobody
ever went to Manitoba, and Won never saw any;
body that came from there. But this cold wind
is something real and, delicious. Ion are 2
brace yourself up with a meal OF roast beef
with cup OF collector DAYS you have hated
the sight OF iood-Rnd In twenty four hours
that aVarlaRtinn Oold Wind from the northwest