The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-03
| MEM IN HOT WEATHER
ward Flsldlng Tells = Vary Har-
rowing Tale Of the Warm
Spell.
Fuggling to Keop Warm With
the Thermometer In the
Ninetiee.
(moultiss Encountered with Two Cor
bulsnt Friends, Fielding nsinE Some
what Attsnuated.

what Attsnuatsd.
HAVE A DESK IN AN OFFICE
which IL simply 4 calaboose built ON the
roof OF 4 ssven-story structure. and
hched BY 10 many flights Of stairs that
body but my creditors have the courage
walk up in this hot weather. and when
~ get there they havs not breath enough
Is to dun ma very hard. This was among
8 advantages pointed ont to me whom !
FBt visited tho ONCE. / was also informed
~ the place vas always provided with :
lol breeze on 4 summers day, no matter
bw many people might b. getting sun
ruck on the street. wish 10 make Z
cord Of this because II 10 the nrst in
|anoe Of veracity that I have encountered
my experience with people who rent
hings.
Personally I didn't care anything about
10 cool breezes. / am never too warm in
1mnar.. / Perhaps this ID because am
nilt 10 that when a torrid sunbeam falls
pom me there is room for only q part Of 1t
B work, while tho remainder hangs around
" edges waiting for me to move.
But fat men are different. There are
hree OF them in tbs Office with me, and
aey suffer terribly. Part Of their misery
due to the fact that they wear scientific
lothing. They appear every morning in
eclice shirts which stick to their bodies
Eke mustard plaatera. They spend large
ums On patent ventilated underolothinR,
yhich would better b. sent to the relief Of
he Peary expedition in G~rssnland. Mean
lille / sit there-or rather used 10 during
ne first hot days-with = boiled shirt, =
igh collar and 4 high, intellectual brow
hat is never eroded by perspiration.
advised MeGlllis, the artist (waist mea-
ure sixty-one inches). to wear ordinary
White mans clothes and hs would be much
ooler. ~
"Fisldinp," said he, ''you harry less meat
han a turkey wing fricassee. What do
on know about hot weather."
Then he rolled up the sleeve. Of bis pat
Int refrigerating flannel shirt. thereby
making a red hot streak around his arms
where The fold of the sleeves bound him.
"What We need,' - said he. lis another
window in this place.
Look here, McGillis,"I protested, "rm
n a draft now al the time. and it'll be the
Heath Of me. We don't need any more
Windows"
But at this point Billings. the poet (who.
when he iu.nps into the water at Asbury
Park. raises the tide along the Jersey
~,oast). chimed in with a suggestion for
Quitting loose one eud of the room and
@winginp it on hinges.
II ia only a shnnty of boards that we in
habit, and the agent of the building. above
he roof Of which we stick out into the
,pen air, made no objection to Blllings'
pian, When this gigantic door was opened
let in q small hurricane. directly upon
ny back. should certainly have caught
arst dny if il hadn't been that Billings was
ID overioyed at the success Of his invention
that he stood in the doorway nearly all
day and, though it vas about six feet wide,
his presence WAS a. good a. having the
door shut. 40. -.
Ind he objected 80 strenuously that Billings
hut his wits to work and invented another
door for McCfillis. This, when 1t Was OOH
structed, proved to be not so favorably sit
uated with reference to the prevailing wind
Rs Billinga's door, SO McGillis decided that
|draft. The window over my desk (Which
|they both insisted should DO always OPEN
did not satisfy McGillis even when the en-
tire sash was taken ont, 80 he persuaded the
ncent to let him cut two holes in the wall.
hone on each side of the window.
The next day after these holeB were made
was raw and uncomfortable. Billings and
MoGillis said that it was the day they'd
|been longing for. A cold and shiny wind
was oozing up the East river. McGillis
called it a refreshing breeze, and he stepped
out upon the roof to enjoy it, leaving the
door open behind him. linen Billings old
the same ~tricksand I turned up my coat col
lar and shivered. The wind increased during
the day till it amounted to half a gale. My
fat friends lay back in their chairs with
their mouths open and gulped down the
foegy air. Meanwhile I was struggling
with q literary production INTO wnion l
was throwing my best touches. II was an
important piece of writing, designed to
be twenty-five inches wide, with pictures in
it. Most of it was about soap, but
the remainder was made up OF delicate
touches descriptive of tho home life OF tho
man who made the soap. was able to put
it down over my " signature that l had
been to dinner at the soap gentleman's
house (by assignment from the business
office of our paper), and had had much more
to eat than ordinarily got At home.
Well, this elaborate bit of character
painting was being blown about fsarfully
by the wind which came in at the door de-
signed by Mr.. Billings and went ont by the
two holes in the wall, after e~xerting a cool
IND pressure on the backs of my cars that
made them stand out from my head like
tho sails of 4 schooner going wind and
wind" Several times a page would be
waited through tho window and then ]
would chase il over the roof and catch it
just a. my forward foot was trembling on
the brink of destruction.
On the next day l had such a cold that all
the handkerchiefs my washsrwoman had
brought me-of which three belonged to mo
and nine with holes in them belonged to
others-wsre not adequate to my needs. l
looked reproaohfully at NoGillis and Bill
ings, but they told me that my afiiction
was due to my internal practice of keeping
tho office go hot that when I got out into
the street l naturally took a chill. They
suggested putting a scuttle in tho roof,
over my head. in order to squalize the ten
perature.
At lunch time I had no appetite, but it
seemed best TO 90 out to 4 drug store and
get q dose of something. Ididn't know
what-none Of US do in New York. W.
simply 90 to the soda water counter and OK
plain what ia the matter with US to the boy
in charge. The practice of serving medi-
cines of a new and improved sort over the
soda counter has become 10 eommoni in Now
York that there are few ii any forms of
death which are not within the reach Of the
humblest of oar citizens.
There were many large bottles behind
this sodR counter. and some of Thorn were
plainly labeled with tho certificates Of their
utility. There was Jerry'a headache MKT
ure which, l think, could hardly fail to pro-
duoe = satisfactory headache in any person,
If taken according to direction. and many
others equally good.
Frank. the boy behind ths counter. was
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