Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-13
THE TRANSITION PERIOD
The Disconsolate Crash Trousers and His
Companion of Cheviot.
brief COlloquy I'm which the weather
bureau omciai" Are Given Point
? ers-The Temperatures.

There are only few of us left" was
the disconsolate remark made yesterday By
the Pair of Crash Trousers, as 1t strolled
disconsolately down the avenue with a Pair
of Winter Cheviot Pantaloons
Il suppose 1 should have been confined 10
the wardrobe. too. but my owner did not
heed the admonition of the weather bureau
until too late. and had his winter suit taken
to the tailor to be cleaned up and pressed.
see not one of my companions who were
present In such large numbers a week ago
On the streets, at the seashore and every
where. They have disappeared, and am
conspicuous object as / an borne along
like an unwilling object on a roaring tor
rent"
The speaker shed a button, in lieu of a
tear, and was silent
The Cheviot Trousers sympathized heart
lily with the other. and, though Ii could not
suppress the jubilation it felt that its time
had indeed come, after weeks of idleness
ana waiting, spoke cheering words.
Never mind. old fellow,"Dwas the re-
Spouse. Remember, there is period for
US an. Then, again, there is no. telling.
this has been such strange. and I may
say, beastly. season. doncherknow. that ~
tomorrow you may be the proper claws
ard may be out of IL altogether, doncher-
Know. So, brace up. 1 suppose you are al
ready braced. but take heart and never
say die
The Commercial ParIance.
Being a strictly imported English pat
tern, the Cheviot Trousers INDUCED in such
line of speech commercially, as it were.
That it was something CT a prophet, too,
can be recognized by the way the sun beat
down N Washington today, after the
respite of yesterday, and the manner in
which the heat rose from the asphalt in
wavy, zigzs ggy lines, and the way in which
the perspiration took a sudden tour TO meet
the heat waves
one OF the weather market reports. which
can be secured only by extreme hard work
and inquisitiveness, was sent out this
morning, as follows:
Rise in mercury; big drop pcrspiration.
Summer resorts holding their own, soda
water fountains working on time, and
prosperity an assured thing"
Ifere was no reason to complain of the
temperature yesterday. A few persons
wEo are never satisfied. and who would
not be If they had barps of gold and could
walk up and down beach by a summer
sea forever in bathing suits which would
never appear anything but new and hand
some, complained yesterday of the change
of weather from that of Saturday.
II the weather people could have led
Us up to 1t by degrees" they said. lit
would have been all right"
They Drobately overlooked the fact that
they had been led up to it by thermo-
metrical degrees. at least, but they were
HOt SdtlSueu Win this arrangement.
Degrees of Heat.
The thermometer registered officially
seventy-seven degrees here yesterday at .
o'clock in the afternoon, and those who at
the end of spring attended three balls
all at one time We're striving to refresh
their memories to where the souvenir
tickets were which would entitle them 10
pay a second visit.
The mercury was - degrees at noon yes
terday, and had SO far forgotten its sun
DAY location as to climb up Is degrees
higher today at II O'Clock, when it stood
steady at 81 degrees.
II never rains but it pours' is an excel
lent adage, which applies to the weather
bureau literally. and in all its dealings
with a long-sufferins public" stout man
with red face and short breath remark
ed today, and he waved palni-leaf fan, as
IL daring the whole bureau to concerted
attack.
For the District of Columbia threatening
weather is promised for tonight, probably
fair tomorrow, with southerly winds The
temperature will probably be unchanged.