Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18

stave of frost-bite and such stuff. and
how. even at that, II was necessary for
them. when they hoped out of their
hunks in the morning, to run up and down
a couple of mountain peaks in order to
take the stiffness Of the nights chill out
Of their bones.
We fell for it all. We went up to that
camp weighted down with wearing gear
for The Spitzbergen brand of weather.
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AS we drew nigh the camp, first on the
train and then on the blackboard, We
waited and waited for the first breath of
that wondrOus coolth we'd been hearing
about all those years. Nothing like that
happened. Nothing whatever 1t was the
hottest forest camp you ever heard Of
1t was as hot as if there'd been a raging
forest fire only about ninety yards in the
oHlng. The air lay dead and steamy and
not over that forest world. Nix the leaf
was stirring. The raging sun filtered
down through the hot branches as If It
We're coming through a burning glass:
and all We could do was to sit there un-
der the shelter of the cabin and pant and
pant and fan ourselves with a crumpied
newspaper that we'd brought from the
train, and listen to the bunch already
there telling us how il never, no. never.
had happened before: that it was without
precedenR; that the world must be upside
down To cause such heat in thae place:
that only three days before they'd been
shiVer1ng with the iciness OF the ar: that
there must be a slumbering volcano de-
veioping under the place. and all the rest
or the wild and hysterical excuses COM
monty made by the folks who apologize
Tor the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. brand Of
weather that we're always encountering
mus IT goes. Not SO many years ago
we decided to take a look at the magno-
has that we'd heard always grew in such
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winter at certain resort not far from
the sea down in South Carolina. We got
there In the month of February. One of
the howlngest Labradorian nOrtheasters
that We ever ran afoul of anywhere was
blowing mingled sleet and snow and rain
and things right smack into the face and
teeth and eyes Of that South Carol ma
winter resort and IL there were any mag
noEas whatever in that neighborhood they
must have been hiding; we didn't see ary
magnolia The editor of the local paper
a man we'd met up this way, was dread
fully chagrined about the way the wealth
er was behaving when We struck his
place; he told us 1t simply was without
precedent. and that the most aged white
or black man In that entire region
couldn't remember anything remotely re-
sembling 1t. comb his dimmng memory
as he might: that only a couple of DAYS
before all of the girls had been going to
the post Office of evenings in their sleaz-
lest white dresses: that the men had been
wearing white hannels. and that folks
had been eating their meals on their
verandas to escape the STIFFNESS of their
dining rooms. We believed him. We had
to. But We certainly considered il queer:
queerer still when our train away from
there-we took the train away from there
tely-got stuck in the snow about
four hours out and made just eight
cen hours late In getting back to the city
we'd started out from to dodge the win
ter.
And the weathers always just as ex-