The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-03
APRIL IN NOVEMBEH.
Curious, springlike Aspects of tho weather
This Month.

Nobody has ever yet calculated the possible por
mutations and combinations OF the weather. but
they are 20 many that some Of them appear
infrequently as 10 seem strange and unfamiliar
even 10 old weather students Ono Of these I'M
familiar aspects Of the weather came about mid
November and set even unobscrvan, men 10 won
dering aud talking.
II seemed II Indian summer. that mellow
thread Of old gold which runs cleaning through
the weather wool at this season Of the year. had
shown itself mufficd and disguised There
the mild air but not the red sun. for the skies
were cloudcd and the Indian summer haze had
deepened to mist For many hours together
the air was dead and the skies were veiled yet
no rain fell. Indeed, one looking at the sky
could hardly expect rain, for there seemed the
ever deferred promise Of clear skies
April seemed somehow 10 have got astray in
the calendar and wcdgcd herself in the very mid
die OF November The temperature and the sky
were both Of April So, too. the soft damp
charm Of the atmosphere, its soothing calm It's
promise and expectancy. one felt that the world
was no, upon the edge Of it, long winter sleep,
hut rather already astir with the frst movings
Of spring II seemed II May and not Decem.
Der must BE- Just below the horizon. Sounds and
smells aud obscure ply acal feelings all suggested
spring Even the brute creation felt oil this;
Tor bees were out tumbling about late chIysan
thcmums, and far away cocks crowed with the
drowsy music Of spring time
IL seemed impossible that the dim green Of the
forest wall could BE- fading into the dress Of white
and the observer could hardly resist the hope
that another day would show IL brighter rather
than DINNER When all other signs were con
sderrd II was hard tO believe that the smoke MS
ing here and there from distant chmneys came from
auEht else than the brush heaps q April aud
the nostrils insisted upon detecting the spring
odoT of burning brush. Surely The wedge 81
honking wild geese should be pointing toward
the Chesapeake rather than Hudson's BAy
All day long the -ofi hootings, cnoingr rather
of fog bound salt water craft foated inland
with mellow music that brought up visions Of
the Sound gray beneath soft blurred skies and
the marshes newly ruhed IN teuderest green And
the night told the same tale the day. A great
mpNn dimly shruudcd sufiuSed the clouds with
light and the bare trees drippcd with LIQUID April
noises while the damp earth filled The air with s,ig
RcstiOns OF spring The air haluy and soft
seemed 10 promise warm suns full throhted streams
and mist Of young grccncry over woodland and
orchard. One knew that the buds 81 that ventu-
ruus semi evergreen the honeysuckle. were start
ing anew as they do after two or three warm DAYS
even in January that in moist, sheltered spnts
the horn of the skunk cabbage was threatening
Ia pierce its earthly sepulchre and seek the light
Those who went " bed half expecting 10 wake
and find the Jewels OF the liverwort upon the russell
carpet Of the woodland woke 70 o cloudess sky
and gentle northwest wind. The air yet had
memories Of as spring, but before the sun was
two hours high intrusive April had been blown
below the uopc