The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-08-15
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DOG DAYS AND DISPOSITIONS
TIE person who can keep sweet
when the Thermometer stays way up
could be a millionaire we're dispoai-
tious salabls
It isn't hard TO be good tempered
when the air Is bFacing aud the blood
tingies through your veins You are
% glad to Be alive, even your vanity
cannot Be prieksd By . ruddg nose
and ears.
It isint even difficult to face the
world with a smiling face during the
FIRST months Of summer when the days
are just hot. You DO not begin to wilt
then. though you may groan over the
weather Life ia fairly endurable
while the leaves keep their tints Of
yellow and apple green and lawns are
yet unseared By brown.
But when the days tufn sticky and
the mig, fHorae. when HosguirOs sst
ue down to bur'neas ara # takes
dynamo to dislodge . fy, then the man
or woman who can be placid has noth-
Ing to fear from sate's buHets
= It ia no use saying Id neF q time Of
misery; no one would believe you IL
you come through The trying six
weeks with shred Of reputation for
a good disposition. rest assured It Is
deserved, or else you have ssd money
enough 10 seek temper cooling climes.
Never try to make an impression on
strangers IN these days It Is a. reck-
less girl who VISITS her fance's family
or newly acquired people-ln-law dur
ing August. A returned solitaire or
strained relations are apt to result
A dog days temper test should be
Imposed upon every couple eontem-
plating natrimony The man who
doesn't fume when bis collar Wits, can
wed 4 termagent without fear Of the
divorce court for incompatibllity.
The girl who doesn't whip or snap
when her pompadour Is iattened, her
forehead shiny and her freshly laun
dered frock ruined at one wearing
has a nature that can tie to the crouch
lest male snd never give him cause e
beat her
II only there we're scme cure for the
dog day dispositioa1 You can muzzle
4 dog: you must submit to the snarls
Of human beings, or-snap back
Happy are you If your lot is with
those who never mind the weather;
there are 90 many and painful ways
IN which those who do mind It car
make themselves disagreeable.
There vas q woman who took th'
heat badly. She was Of the bioot
boiling kind who did not suffer in 81
Ience. Life in summer was not pleas
ant Tor her and she let her friend
know It.
Then she went on a visit II was
two days vacation but 1t worked trans
formation. The hostess took the hea
even worse than her guest did sh
talked Of nothing else, she examine
the thermometer compIaiuingly ever
ieu minutes, she fused she insiste
On sitting il the cellar to cool Of
she made herself generally obnoxiou
L was as lf a mirror had been be
before the guest
The day Of her return home was
sizzlers the thermometer read 100 81
the humidity made life not worth d
living
The woman's friends awaited 1
usual groans They didn't con
When she said ~ahe felt cool a
looked #, not once perspiring or m'
ping they thought she was about
die. They did not know until la'
she had had her medicine and b
learned 70 take the heat easy
Would you make fhe dog days be
abIeg
Don't fuss: break the thermomet
and forget 10 look at the heat j
ords.
Keep busy; not your body perh
which is not cooling. but your br'
$50 It cannot dwell on the weather
chicago Inter-ocean.