The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-02
CAN'T TABOO WEATHER.
II 10 the Topic of All Topics and viii
Not Down,

NOl GOWHs
VVYHY is the weather as a topic OF
w conversation taboo?
Were we ever schooled to
consider it such? Our memory fails
to recall my curriculum containing
such course.
Does, then, the restriction come to
us by revelation or perhaps transmit
ted from generation to generation by
legend, myth and story?
Taboo it is, but wherein lies the rea-
son?
Do we dread to speak Of rain lest
1t might associate umbrellas in the
mind Of our visitor and we fear a
disappearance or a disadvantageous
exchange?
Do we hesitate TO mention snow lest
our overshoes might mysterlously
vanish? If not for these selfish mo-
tives, in what, then, is to be found the
reason for the almost universal popu-
lar hesitancy to speak about the
weather?
Perhaps-and the idea has just oc-
CURED to us-it is because It is not
considered sufficiently high browed,
List, then, We conversationalists who
would aspire to great fame, and con-
slider carefully and thoughtfully what
we now declare:
The weather is the topic Of all topics
of conversation. All others must give
way to it.
Listen not nor pay attention to the
folk who speak their isms and ologies
for verify they are dubs if they will
not recognize the truth we proclaim.
Take courage. you who have shivered
and sat abashed in your lonely cor
ners while an ism monopolized with
his isms or an ology with his ologies,
for the weather is the factor that de-
( termlnes and predestines all
Ask your minister, who wishes a
large congregation on Sundays, what
effect the weather his upon the at
| tendance.
Ask madam what she said under her
breath when it ralned on Easter morn
ing.
Ask mister whether he smiled or
cried on that occasion when his wife
nagged him to make a call with her
and a sudden storm prevented.
What about the rain that made the
ball game impossible on the only after
noon be could get off?
Or the time you, a poor devil, with
your wife, were to attend a high social
function three blocks from your home,
and you had to pay 81 for a carriage
because snow or rain storm came up
an hour before the time to go.
These are no theories You have ex-
perienced all of them
Begin with n rain. Then come wet
feet cold - sickness 90 doctor doc
, tor bills--stricter economy for the fu-
ture-no Injuries harder work-com-
pletely worn out at night-worry-
worry worry!
! Each Of these items, from wet feet
10 worry, would furnish enough con-
yersation for two sittlngs, and we
fearlessly, unhesitatingly use them.
Then why is the rain, the cause OF II
all, taboo?
The universal greeting is. How dc
you doi" Health! Yet It is a very
short jump from health to rain
(weather with its attending miseries
Winter is weather and a mighty i'm
portant topic of family discussion
when the question of furnace and coal
and Christmas gifts is up. Ask the
head of the family.
Summer is weather that brings with
It problems of ice and summer resorts
The hotter the weather the better the
I topic.
No matter what you do or want to
do or don't want to do, where you &c
or want to go or don't want to go--it
is the weather that has to be reckoned
with Then why taboo?-Mllton n
Simon in Puck.