The daily Alaskan., 1907-03-07
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IA Meteorological Paradox
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 l once knew quartet composed of the funniest people you ever saw in l your life. They weren't four men or l four women nor two meu and two wo- men. but three men and a woman. Each of the three men was tunnier than the other two. and the woman was funuier than the tlree men to- gether. You should have seen her One eye was turned up a, an angle of l twenty-five degrees. the 0 her down at an angle of thirty SheCoudloOk serious and sympathetic out of the one eye and hystericully diaboltCal out of the other. She had rsvenisa crOaE and T sweet melody in her voic" SD that no one could tell whether Sha meant to be pleasant or diSagrccabC Sometimes sAc would say pleasant .Ain@s to you looking at you with her sympathetic eye and sometimes say dj" pOiicaI things looking at you with her sympathetic eye. so nobody ever knew what she wLS driving at.
 The first of the three zen was Mir. BautaG, husband of tine .1ove dCScri5- eI lady. Everybody sad the name was very appropriate for >Ir. Bantam s ravc wocp the perpetual @.in of a ban lam rooster Next came Mir. Guyer. a theoretical mathematical orodigy. Like S.r fSaYe Newton. who made a large aul small hole in his door for his h;E aut little cat to come through. Culver didn't SCoop to consider petty cpvtriy:.urcS. He once had an "larm clock which failed to wake him up in the morning. Somebody finally called his aftrlriOu to the fact that it hadn't any bell. Tine third man was MT. Nor rvwcather. real noble. good man." aS one uf his women friends express, cd it. Indeed. he was So good and no- hlc that he couldn't conceive of %rY ruc bcin- wicked. And thereby hangs this talr
 Ono sunday morning Merryweath"r nnd Grver went to see NIr. and Mrs. Bantam. who were at church. The two Ben <;t "m the vcvIrda waiting tIi t;ic services Should be over and ne couple. vrrhar@rd. like an electric auto mobile. with -ooiurSS. should return. Er weather waS brtwlNu aul he tween. and when Mc"-ywcathcT said it was warm Guycr, who waS great GtSpu,aut. derII-r'l iJ "a> cold. Pres eutly Lr. unL AIrS Hm'am retrped. Mrs. Bantam welcoming ',Uyrr with Ler " upatlr.tr eye aUj NrrrywcHth. cr with Inc" G.unn,ir eye then la~S.DS !nt, the nnv.r rlr dispute about the weather wl~ referred tr BIutLC'. who concluded tp rr.r .r J' fine thcuap|e, ter. whtrE hc n"rI-At frnm the hrl*e He shnwcG # [. NrrrvwclJhcr, "aU Was surprised tn snn record of 't dc- @rrns. it, wa~ l.irh pleased to he yin d.ratcd. n:u h.ta., expected >o ;'.um- phaut # v.nI."a'oI.
 Then Ms. T-.am c:':nn oUt a!d, re- -ardfav nr- hu~r~uL aaa Guycr with hcr Sympathetic eye aud inc @r a Mir NTnrrywvarlrr with her rliahoi. eye, made son" modest ru...rEN on the weather nrrsn,t. m which she main ta:ued rlal H w.S @~.wiu% colder After hayu- p.,aaaslrl her r0m', at least with EJasam all Guyrr-MrS. Bantam always cs.ahu-. I her point; people were aEraI tha tt they dis agreed with hrv ~ar wu..d bring her Liahol.c ry, uu thru-~.r went back into the hou~r with the taeru6meter
 Presently Bantam wen. inside to get the tneruomrter again. Hud when he brought it out ii had fall.n 2J degrees Merryw2allrr roU!du'tuL .cratand how SD drciGaI change Sh.uM have Oc- cltrrrd iu SD short a t.un without his feeling i-. Gugv. su-@ns 'd that there was st,rt..u@ the Hur v with him Nlrrrvvr.-.rr vas r.. Irgnrd. He thou-ht ar aaH 'eger -r hrur.
 Mrs. Ear'ru ra..r n"0 4-i,u. bring ing the rlr~aum,ur w.r. '."r and &ug geStiu. tltar sama;,.ug II>C be the matter with Z. It !wG .I" up again. This rcaESurr} AirvrvNsr r'r who Wal of too Swnnr I.spo>.,fo. 10 speak hi, thoughts. which vr.' !! '' Mrs Bun tam had prr...,- r,.1 ." scale first with la~ lower E.," wiz her uppc, eye. But 8. rnr~, we've '- degrees be tween thr tur r~r, rll> .-ln't explain the smaller drTr9rurn. However. uc lr.i,lcI .p wait avh"r r..""n couclud- ing that he !aI cn'n> m1 fever. The conScruru.rs m'g,t Eavc nrrD avertr: had not Bantam haudrl ,rund a Sti'n ulaut. A few minutes after Merry weather hal d.aiucd las glass Mrs. Bantam clmr onr wi;h tlr ,hrrmomc ter again standing at G0 degrees. ThcE Alcvrywcuthrr waS sure ho had the fever of pneumonia. X Syupatheti; curve appeared ou the l"rl hand corner of Mrs. Bantau'S mouth as she r. marked that 1t came ou that way. MerrywcQthcr was helped into the house and placed on louhgr. Occa. | slonalIy he would resume a normal bodily temperature. but whenever he ! dd So uae of his three friends would show him a tnrrmometer antipodal [" | his condition. IT the mercury stood ! low when he was hot h" thought he was in fever. If it stood high when he was cool he assumed that he had a | chill In this way hls loving friends