Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-16
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did you get it allt"
Il don't know how we'll primed am he replied
studying the subject for sometime. And it's the
biggest and most interesting subject have ever
tackled. Why, man. weather is the biggest thing
in life; it's the biggest thing in the universal We
get along somehow without politics and laws
and commerce and all that: but we can't get along
at all without the weather That is why people
and financial panics. And if you look at the mat
ter thoughtfully, you will what insignificant
little weather creatures
Do you know that if the mean temperature of
the earth was raised lowered only few dozen
degrees, all the creatures of the air, water. and
land would soon cease to exist? Let me give you
at least one hundred thousand degrees Fahrenheit,
and in the ether between it and the earth the tenn
perature drops to several hundred degrees below
Zero making in all more than one hundred thousand
degrees of temperature in solar system, which
is a pretty respectable figure. Now if could
move about at will in this expanse of temperature,
might have some justification for feeling proud;
but instead of that we are hemmed within miser
able hundred degrees so, beyond which if we
dare to venture are either frozen to death or
killed by SunStrOke.
eff you want clear idea of what this means.
substitute inches for degrees, and then have
hundred thousand inches. about mile and
the and the cold of the ether of which about nre
feet given to play in Think of that And
then think that within these extremely narrow
limits can't move about in comfort! Outside of
what we call the temperate zones. average
perature of iftyfve to seventy degrees, the people
actually atypc. at least according to STAN
dard. Civilization never has and never will thrive
there. 1t takes all the people, energies to stand the
climate. and leaves for the luxury of civiza
ton. The Eskimos for example, and the Bushmen.
the Hottentots, the Todas and all the other primitive
peoples, they have teen this planet long
if longer than the European races but they have
never got anywhere It's as much as they can do
anything but breathe. and the Eskimos must spend
all their available energy to keep warm.
And then within our favorable temperate zone,
see what east wind little wet weather will
do for in the line of disease. There is diphtheria
and whooping cough bronchitis and consumption.
in the cold damp winter months; scarlet fever in
summer; followed little later by typhoid fever;
and SO all through the year"
You don't mean to tell me-" l interrupted,
THAT you are unacquainted with the modern germ
theory of diseased
Weather Helps the Germs
IKNOW, he replied, that germs cause the differ
ent diseases; but it is the weather that chls
heats the body and puts it in fine condition
for the germs to work on it with deadly effect.
That is why people with pulmonary diseases go to
Colorado. The germs still in the body; but it
is as much they do to keep alive in that eli
mate let alone doing extra work. However, We
don't have to go to hospitals and sanatoriums to
find out what the weather can do We can look at
ourselves, healthy When the sky is
leaden and the day is dull and dreary, we become
gloomy and depressed; everything looks dark
think only of the worst and most unhappy
periences of lives: awful sensation of heav-
ness and oppression weighs on the heart: and we
become pessmistic and tired of life But next
morning the is bright and cheerful, the air is
dry and exhilarating and have forgotten all
our woes and imaginary ills; the joy of life is upon
us and within us; ambition has returned and We
are young and optimistic again. Our souls the
mirrors in which the weather herself reflected
in all her moods
l thought of the poor prisoners shut up in their
cells-how the weather must affect them
deeply and painfully than it does us and asked
nv friend if he had studied that phase of the SUBJ