Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-02-16
JUST COLD ENOUGH.

OF course no one has remarked Oh
the weather in the last few days. Oh!
no. No one has said rs this cold
enough for you? because everybody
of average intelligence knows that it
has not been cold enough for you, or
us, or whoever was addressed. 1t
can't get cold enough for US, it has
tried it often and overa gain, and given
it up as a failure. Our friends have
rushed up 10 us, when the thermome-
ter would be knocking off degrees way
down below zero, and asked us, rs
this cold enough for you ?" Invaria
bly, has come the sweet and gentle
mo" which we always keep for such
occasions. We never dread cold, we
like it, we like winter, we like to see
the clean white snow, and the long ice
cicles hang from the roofs, and hear
the crisp ring of the frost under our
feet. We love to see the licking s man
tie lay on the earth, we care not how
thick may be its folds. We watch with
delight the boys as they coast, and as
they pelt each other with snow balls,
and become glad when we hear the jim
gle of the sleigh bells. We never grow
tired as we watch the skaters. glide
over the smooth surface of the lake
We know how pure and clean and
healthful is the air we breathe when it
has been purified in the lungs of Old
Boreas. 1t cannot get too cold for US.
No indeed. No one need ask US eX
pecting we Will say yes. Santa Claus
dwells in his icy palace in the North
We have always envied him his home
But when On a summers day with
fan in hand. and persperation standing
II beads, when we know what we arc
enduring, and think to what we will be
doomed to endure when our worldly
troubles have ended, and kind good
neighbor or friend languidly remarks,
us it hot enough for ycu?" we always
say yes, quite so thank you, if our
breath holds out so long, or our dis
position under such trials will allow
us to use SO gentle an expression. II
requires no extraordinary effort to get
hot enough for us, we frequently find
it too hot when we get home, although
the thermometer outside did not indi
cate high degree. Many people have
habit of making it warm for US, per
sons who for instance have sought oul
custom and when We gave it Il
them, sought us frequently thereafte
with tears and lamentations. DC
casionally there is "a hot time il
the old town. and then Of course it i
| very much too warm, we long to Il.
away and be at rest. We meet warn
| members occasionally, and then ou
temperature rises to 106, which is tn
| danger point. The world, we are told
| will be melted some day with fervit
heat, and q very much dreaded person
one that has haunted US from child
hood, has in fact haunted all children
and driven many into idiocy and in
sanity, person Or thing with horns
and Dragons tail. and cloven feet
they tell us dweIls where there i
nothing but fire and birthstone. ant
this creature follows US they sa.
Everywhere seeking to drag us dow
to that pit of fire. How dreadful
This settled the question with us Ion.
ago 1t can get too hot for Us, it ha
been so when pulling weeds in the gar
| den, Or carrying sheaves in the field
but it never got too cold to coast, o
skate, or hunt rabbits in the snow. M
boy was ever scared out of his wits b.
| telling him he would be frozen into al
| iceclcIe when he died, many hav'
been by telling them they would b'
| roasted No, no, it is just right for III
thank you, nearly right, if anything
not quite cold enough.