The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-11

Der, and now we grumble about the
warmth, and in no poetic terms.
No one ever reports any complaints
about the heat from the jewellers of
the desert of or the cities of the Far
East, where it is a furnace blast COM
pared to most of that known to our
ATTITUDES; and even in our own South
ern country the people seem to love
their summer weather. The fact Is,
however, that in the desert, in Damas-
Gus, in the Soudan, they know moth
ing better. 1t is the atmosphere of life
to them, and they are prepared for 1t,
with their we'll adjusted dress, their
narrow shade-throwing streets, their
open houses, their wide and all-sur-
rounding galleries, and their daily
habits.
But with us the streets are spacious,
and the sun has full scope and power;
and we need be chary of the covered
gallery or piazza which excludes the
sun, for in winter it is as necessary
to our comfort as, in summer, it is
feature of our discomfort. The only
recourse is to shady gardens, full of
flying and singing things. or to avn
ings for which every ones purse is not
equal. And moreover, with us the
heat comes suddenly and unexpected
ly. and overcomes us like an enemy
springing from ambush. All the relief
we find is in innumerable baths, in
sherbets and other chill viands, in
reading accounts of Arctic adventure
and disbelieving them, while we are of
the opinion that the Mr. Tudor whose
ship first carried ice to the tropics de-
serves a monument. We agree then
with Francis Bacon when he said that
under stress of heat anybody-and why
not ours?--is "perpetually quivering.
striving and struggling, and irritated
by repercussion, whence springs the
fury and fire and heat" And If we
know that Sir William Thompson has
reported a tendency in the universe to
convert all things into heat and so stop
all physical phenomena, we feel, when
the thermometer is in the nineties, that
that day is near Stories then. that we
have read, of women who walk about
their business indifferently in huge
ovens heated to a tremendous point.
recur to us in order that we may ex-
press our absolute conviction of their
falsehood.
Yet we might ask ourselves II this
rich and full heat is not, after ALL
something very good for us to have.
When we see all nature expanding IN
Il, the grass billowing, the corn gilt
tering with fiinty sparkles. growing in
the night, and waving like an army
most aromatic gums, when we see that
wherever the heat is mighty then the
earth is beautiful. we may well WON
der If this strengthening and expand
ing power is not as enriching to us also
as IL is to any great blossom luxuriat-
ing in sun, expelling our impurities at
every pore and ripening all our forces
still there are many processes of ma
turc, good for us in the long run-like
the cutting of our teeth, for instance
but disagreeable in the present ex-
perience; and there is only one way to
meet them and not suffer from them;
and that is to recognize that 1t is per-
fectly idle to rebel against the powers
that rule, the law of gravitation, the
law of the suns dominion; and, since
no hull will overthrow it. to reconcile
ourselves to our comet Going about
with a constant sense of wrong, and
recvenition of discomfort, with a spirit
Of vexation and COMPLAINTS only maxi