The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-02-10
OUR SOUTHERN LETTER.
If a Man can Stand the Climate of
Pennsylvania He Will Have no
Trouble with that of North
Carolina

writes me an interesting letter.
interesting for the question it asks.
The first question that strikes me
Us whether people from the North
can stand the climate here. That
is interesting because it shows
what a singular misconception ex-
lists in the north as 10 the climate
of the South.
am of the impression that
North Carolina has in some Sec
tions the best climate found in the
| United States, and that impression
comes from familiarity with the
most of the States through actual
residence We never have the eX-
IRENE heat that is felt in California,
but because California was discov-
cred by Pennsylvania people when
nobody was figuring on climate
no one in Pennsylvania thinks of
California climate except to sup
pose it is the only real good elm
ate in the world. The truth is
that the climate beats California
completely. We never have the
eXhausting hot weather that pre-
walls in summer in California, nor
the dreadful cold fogs that roll in
from the ocean during California
nights.
In California I never put my
OverCoat away summer or winter,
for l expect to wear it every even
ing that l went down town in San
Francisco. You can see a man
there with his straw hat on at the
same that he wears his overcoat,
and his neighbor with him NAV
be wearing a fur coat. A man
comes up the street with his thin
duck coat on i'll the afternoon, and
to go out after supper he puts his
overCoat Oh top of his duck coat.
You see women with fans talking
with women with furs on.
Here we have a short mild win
ter and long agreeable summer,
the extreme of heat not great, and
not many not days in d season,
and the most of them not as un-
comfortable as the hot days of
summer in Pennsylvania. The
most uncomfortable summer tenn
perature I have see in a good while
was during a few days in Pitts
burg and Philadelphia a couple OF
years ago in June, and l was glad
to get back to North Carolina from
the oppressive heat of those places.
Here we have a dry atmosphere,
and a dry air is not an unComfort-
ably hot one. The average man
from Pennsylvania kicks at the
weather here when he comes.
Some do not but many do. That
is human nature. When I fall in
with stranger from Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Iowa, or any other state,
l am disappointed if he does not
at once begin to show me how
much better things are where he
came from. But most of them
after they have stayed here little
while confess that they would not
go back to the terrible cold winters
of the North for anything.
To answer my friends questions,
this is a climate that no man need
be afraid of for a minute. The
man who can stand Pennsylvania
weather need never fear the wealth
er of North Carolina. His health
will be better here, and his child
rem will have better health. and
his wife will have better health.
This IS so because they can be
out Of doors more, and their vital
ity IS not exhausted in fighting
the fierce cold of winter.
This is one of the best watered
regions of the world, for it is
sandy country. and the whole
country is a gigantic filter. We
have a better rainfall than in
Pennsylvania, and the rain is bet
ter tributed through out the sea-
son. Droughts, such as prevailed
up there during the summer, our
people here cannot understand.
IT.