Daily camera., 1899-01-30
SNOW IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
The Rare Climatic Advantages o. Il
Newly Acquired City of the
United States.

Gimme a pair of artics," said the
cold-looking man, to the clerk in the
shoe store. The clerk looked panied
at the mispronunciation, but rose su-
perior to his feelings and fastened to
make sale While he was fitting the
arctics he ma,le little conversational
venture, suggestion that the abun-
dant snowfall had made it so cold that
heavy foot covering was necessary.
TT amt the cold and the amount of
snow that bothers me-" said the Gus
toner, "but it's the coming so almighty
quick when you're not looking for it;
that's what gets me- ! amt used to it"
No snow where you come from?"
asked the clerk as he finished buck!ing
the left arctic.
PLENTY Of snow. Snow all the year
around. Winter and summer justs the
same. Get used to the snow; but not to
the way it has here"
THAT must be worse than the Klon-
dixie. They tell me that the snow does
melt there along about mosquito time.
But your place where you have snow all
the yeac long-weIl, all can say is that
I'm glad there amt any such sort Of
climate in the United States"
That's where you're away off. My
town is decidedly in the United States
ind we've got a climate that you can't
beat anywhere in the world. There
isn't its match even in California and
there's a pretty good climate out on the
coast. Year in and year out there's
just the same amount of snow and we
know what to depend on, for it never
varies"
Must be good place to sell arctics
and rubber boots" the cle,l1 suggested.
Never was as much as single pair
seen in town." replied the cold-looking
man, 'and as a good part of the popula-
ton go barefoot there isn't much
chance that such novelty in footwear
would attract custom. Snow like this
l can't stand. 1t comes on you all of a
sudden and you get a cold in your head;
and you can't make yourself feel warm
no matter how many of them you
take"
Amt the snow cold out your way?"
asked the bewildered clerk
Cold? Well, guess it's just about
as cold as snow can manage to come,
for it never melts. "But we don't feel
it the same way. When | get up in the
morning at my place | slip a linen
iuster over my pajamas and go down to
the river for my swim, and on my way
l stop and pick banana or maybe a
pineapple and lookup and see it's been
showing again on the hills. Now, to
my way of thinking, that's the kind of
snow to have. 1t looks right pretty and
it doesn't make you uncomfortable.
It's a Christmas card climate"
By this time the clerks head was
swimming. 1t may have been because
be was bending over to fix the right
arctic or it may have been because of
the difficulty of believing this tale of
climate. Even at the risk of spelling
the sale he was trying to make, his
sense of meteorological accuracy got
the better of him. and he said:
1--WE listened to Californians talking
about their climate, and l must say that
even in their toughest stories they've
always made it seem consistent. Los
Angeles and San Diego people can get
off some pretty stiff stories about
oranges, but not even they pretend to
grow bananas and pineapples and the
really tropical fruits, and they'd never
venture to talk about putting on linen
duster for trip to an iceberg or
glacier. Amt this cold snap enough
for us to have to suffer without rub,
bing it in? At any rate, there ought to
be limit on stories about climate; they
ought at least to seem reasonable.
Where in the world is this place OF