Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-24
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HUMAN BODY AS BAROMETER
Weather Changes FOretOld by Those Who
 "FeeI IL In Their Bones"

[ Weather Changes FOretOld by Those Wht Feel IL In Their Bones" Human barometers are among ths [ euriOsities of weather lore, and sonls parts of our anatomy form an almost in fallible signal service. which was knowE and recognized as such long before gov ernment exploited its science Of LeteoT | ology.
 Centuries ago people fin New EGslari as well as in the old world kneYe wher Q storm was approaching by their rheu. matic twinges. Their descendants did the same thing, and many now living need no other forecast of q change c. weather. Shakespeare. who certainly knew a little of everything. thus alludes to the fact:
 Therefore the moon, the governor of 4osslS. Pale in her anger, washes all tbe air
 That rheumatic diseases do abound. 'iI feel it in my bones'' is another precursor of a storm
 AS old sailors have all points
 O. the compass in their bones and Joints.
 Can by their pangs and stitches find
 All turns and changes in the wind.
 And, better than by Napier's bones.
 Feel in their own the change iH moons.
 Soldiers will tell of aching wounds whenever the air changes. There is a contraction of the muscles about the in- jured parts which fOretells storm. and the wound that gives them but little III convenience during fine weather gruIu- bles and pains until the bad spell is over. Tbe theory is a true one, account ed for by medical scientists on uncou- trOverted testimony.
 My corns ache; we are going to hay5 rain, is heard as often today as it was when somebody wrote the ancient cnup- let:
 A coming storm your shooting corns prosage And aches will throb, your hollow teeth win
 rage.
 The belief that the weather was 3e. sponsible for crime YVES prevalent iu tns past:
 Why has such a one murdered his brotherr
 For these facts if a reason you d find. The same cause stands for one as the other.
 It's that horrible easterly wind
 This odd rhyme should have originat. ed in Boston. where the phrase the "wind is east" passes from lip to liz like some cruel spell, although 1t is new CT necessary for the true Bostonian 10 be told that the wind is east. He feels 1t in his bones and shivers over the knowledge
 High winds produce forecast of bad weather which physicians diagnose as frontal headache" It is dull paia in the forehead. accompanied by depres- sion of spirits, and it indicates low CT falling barometer. A popular preacher who lived many years in Illinois said that the continued blowing of the prairie winds produced headache and confusion of the mental faculties, so that be dreaded the sound of a coming wind. When he moved to another state, he ex- perienced great relief.
 Persons who do not analyze their emotions may not be conscious of their powers as weather bureaus. although they may agree with the bard:
 By the prickings of my thumhs.
 Something wicked this way comes
 But they would hate to acknowledge that they vera forecasting a thunder storm or thaw. In a modern noYei an old sec captain says to his wife:
 Ma, there's a storm a. brewin.
 Whereupon his better half responcs with some acrimony:
 You've been asleep, pa"
 That doesn't prevent a storm from ! brewin, does it?" retorts the old sailor. who has felt it in his bones. Those conditions of the human system l which serve as forecasts of the weather ! Ire not mere superstitious fancies. cal ! 'ulated only to provoke a smile, but 1 cal symptoms in touch with the life oI ] he universe, the flowing of the sap in 1 he tree, the rising and falling of the 1 tides, the waxing and waning of moons ! There Is the possibility of a hidden | ruth in aching bones foretelling storm | hat may yet be developed into an exact | ience.-Chicago Times Herald.