The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
ABOUT THE WEATHER
THE WEATHER MAN Is VERY
PROMISING
He Says "Fair Tomorrow" When He
Knows Tomorrow Never Comes
Picnics Don't Go Off Quite as Well
When 1t Rains as When 1t Is Clear

How would you like to be the wealth
er man Z? How would you like to do
as he does-sit up in high tower and
watch the clouds come down the river
or up the river and see the steady rain.
and then send out a little message to
each paper fair tomorrow" With ad-
mirable optimism that is what the
weather man has been doing the past
week. He feels sure that if he keeps
on saying fair tomorrow" that some
day it will stop raining and everyone
will say, What a clever weather man."
But if the worst comes to the worst,
and it goes right on raining forever,
and some big man demands to know
what he meant by saying fair tomor-
row." he can reply that tomorrow
never comes. 1t is hard to. catch that
eIa weather man. You see he has
weather eye, and he keeps it up and
down and all around. Besides fair to-
morrow he also says every day, wa
riable Winds Now that is easy and
he doesn't have to look up or down or
go out of his tower to know that the
winds are going to be variable?
For is not an east, west,
north or a south wind variable? Ger
tainly, clever old weather man! So We
know this much-that tomorrow is al
ways going to be clear; that we will
have variable winds, and that tomor-
row never comes. 1t is just SO with
life-tomorrow is always to be clear
and tomorrow never comes! Lo, we
are philosophizing on the woman's
page on a rainy day! What will we
do here next, 1 wonder.
But, speaking of the weather; don't
you just yearn to go out and sit under
a tree with your best young man and
watch the playful little bugs get into
the lunch basket? Isn't summer pleas
ant, especially this summer? Isn't it
just too nice to sit round a roaring
crate fire and drink ice-cold lemonade?
Isn't it charming to go TO picnic and
sit in an old shed all the afternoon and
catch cold in your head? Summer for
me every timei
Then when your friend at the lake
invites you to lunch and says you just
must come, you telephone out and say
you are afraid to venture forth in the
rain, and you hear her shocked voice
family saying:
What, not coming! Oh, you must,
we will be so disappointed, and I've
gotten all ready for you. You don't
mind a little rain, do you? I didn't
suppose a little rain would keep you!"
And then you assure her that of course
you want to come very much, in fact,
are dying to come, and you will come
certainly, and then you hang up the
receiver and wonder what in the world
you will wear that won't look quite too
dreadful when it is soaked through,
and you make a note of never insisting
upon people coming to lunch with you
when it rains. You go, ruin your
clothes, get your feet wet and when
good of you, and she really wondered
whether you would come in such
rain!
OF course rain is bad for picnic. It
does not go off with the same verve,
not to say eclat, that it would if the
sun Shone. But rain does not inter-
fere with the independent Order of
Strikers having their annual outing at
Wildwood, nor does it keep the Sisters
of Harmony from going to Como and
sitting on wet board under umbrellas
and having a dam(pl picnic. In sum-
mer we must picnic in spite of that
weather man who, presume, is always
dry. (No offense intended, Mr.. Wealth
er MANI
Then there is the annual worry about
the crops which is setting in very
heavily just now. When all the other
worries give out there is always that
same old worry over crops which never
ceases. Now they are getting just
wee bit too much rain. / presume in
couple of weeks they will be suffer-
ing from drought. There is al
ways something the matter with
them in Minnesota, and we live in the.
shadow Of them every summer. If the
crop is abundant, the price is poor; if
the crop is small, the price is high and
the difference is the difference between
tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. Now,
right here on this page let us all prom
Use each other not to worry about those
crops any more. 1t is enough to have
the weather man to worry about, SO the
first one to promise will be
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