The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-08
MARRIED TO A BAROMETER.
4 Man Who Believes in His Wife as
Weather Prophet.
From the New Orleans Tiucs-Democrat.)

GTom the New Orleans Times DemocratD
Iaik about your barometers, rheuma-
tiSm, gOurdS. gOosebOnes. and corns as
weather Representatives, - said the man
who knows. they are not in it when il
comes 10 weather predictions with the
haiF OF my wife ! would rather have
heF promise as 10 the weather any time
Ih'th th1t OF captain Blythe or the best
ana luCkeSt Weather Bureau observer
WAC ever engaged In the predicting or
weather fOrecasting business
or years ! have taken her advice as
to what the weather would be during the
day and for years I have dressed and
prepared myself accordingly Long ago l
round out that my wife spoke trgthfuIIv
WneH she told me rain would fall or that
the day would be fine, and she never made
a mistake once In q hundred times. &C
cuSed her Of all sorts Of things, such as
having rheumatism a gOOsc5Oue and al
MANAGES, and / advised her TO 20 TO =
chlropodist, for I imagined it was by her
Ieet that she was able to so truthfulIv
years have been guided by her and
Wnen she tells me in the morning thar
ram VIII fall wear dark clothes and
carry an umbrella. and I find I have l,Sa
Tor It before return home at night
On her promise that the day would he
me l nave invariably worn light clothes
ana IeIt my umbrella at home, and I
nave never found that | had use for II
A shower may fan during the day b1Tt
the sun always comes out after il and
that IS the nearest my wife has ever
So u ~SilAN'ly itItGsiStlNS the wealth
eT but she was never able 10 tell what
the weather would be except for twelve
hours, and she would never risk her re.,TI-
taJOn by making predictions for longer
than that And her predictions were. al
ways for the daV only, and never for the
night, and often when we went ont al
night we were caught unpreDared by
rain On these occasions I frequently
INVITED my wife with being a false
prophet, or rather, bad one, but I could
never get her to venture a prediction on
the weather at night.
All these years the matter had been
n great mystery to me, and 1 was never
able TO fathOm it; but a few days ago she
explained how she was able to so closely
the day. and her explanation Of the mat
ter was so simple th1t ] wondered why
the solution of what / thought a IuySt erv
or the possession Of second sight on nv
Wifes part had never occurred to me be
fore.
Like many other women, my wife's
hair is not curly, and like MANY other wO-
men she puts it up in curl papers. or kids.
when she retlres at night and brushes it
out curly in the morning. When her hair
emeTEeS from the curl papers, damp dark
and sticky and heavy, she knows there
VIII be rain and plenty of it before night
When il is a trifie damp she knows there
a real rainy day, and when she brushes
out her hair and It Is dry, light and fluffy
she knows TO q certainty that the day will
be q fine one. and then she makes her
predictions with great assurance and
earnestness, and have seldom found her
wrong / suppose other mems wives can
tell in advance the weather by their hair
pose than any barometer I have ever
known