The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-05
Over the Nuts and Wine
By FRANCES coUR7ENAY BAYLOR
The THERMOMETERS.

XIII
Is II pulls or bears who have sent the
mercury M TO g. in January from the
almost Canadian depths OF December?
Then the query OF Montreal: Are you
triz?" always brought inS,antancously
The Quebec Yes | Is; while now
the very nails In the veranda floors are
starting cnt under the impre ssion that
II is spring, and Wendell Holiness
image OF tho school boy trying to stop
the flow OF tile town pump by putting
Ills hand over the spout is daily illus
tra,ed, FOR everybody Is pouring out OF
Tour walls, and nothing can hinder
a wind that is positively benignant. and
grass distinctly green. The house
bound folk are enjoying the respite
given ,hrm with the compliments of
the Valley Of Virginia. which has GER
tainly one OF the very best climates
in the world. OF course. they will all
come in again and go back TO fires and
iiannels, and whecze and sneeze and
Coughs and grumps and groans. India
rubbers, reavy overcoats, mayhap
s.lieumntism grig or nneum.on.i3a; but ut
did not ,lore irrcsist!bly vile away ana
put and on every creature that can
Walk, skip or run.
In Madrid.
People say OF the climate Of that
beautiful CITY. as romantic as the Cid,
Tres masses invicrno nueve moses In
ferno" ithrae months Of winter and
nine OF a p,acc that ladies do not mon
Siberia When 1t ceases to be cold. it
becomes. without any OF the gradual
transitions OF spring in Northern eli
mate, as torro and dusty as the Desert
Madricna mas never Il good word TO
say for climate that is simply abom-
Unable. Barcelona gets the sea breeze;
roedo's winds are not as keen as its
blades; Sarag has no long climatic
seges OF waary months in spite Of its
historic reputation for such Spain
has the three zone,s-tcmperate. arctic
the worst features of them all. They
say OF IN i'll tempered or invalid diplo-
ina, in Europe: "Ah, yes: what can you
Or thirty years at Aladrid.'' as If that
would account for anyFning and make
him as the French Wit said OF Habal1-
liuk the prophet, cape BILE de tout!'
THE Green Isle is made and kept
green by everlasting rains It is a
wonder tina. rs people are not all web
fo9,ed q NIL as sc0na hsarted and
1rishwoman. :cu remember. and that is
where ,hcy set their mother-wit. An
Irish clergyman Of my acquaintance.
after twenty yec;rs spent In this coun-
never saw tho sun. England, which
often TO an American looks as II it
had just emerged from the aboriginal
ooze OF creation and was stu moist,
dirty and dripping, is dry compared
with Ireland. Yet ireland is not rn-
healthy at all. Very much the re-
plexions ard such lawns! They show
tho rains OF about million years! An
Irish girls skin is like a rose leaf, seen
by the suns most searching rays at
creams, massage, lotions, powders,
flesh brushes. pastes or masks, poul-
tees or Newspapcr prescriptions in
which American women seem to de-
1tryAt IT, y,
water, when can be had any day. a
very foolish, ambitious English girl,
who was oeaGly poor and very beauti-
ful married. an Irish millionaire some
friend she SAID "The house, the plate.
the furniture, the pictures. the grounds
are gorgeous. am told the views are
fin fine; but Ireland IS dro a.. r
sits at one end OF paneled drawing
room fifty.!vc feet by nifty. as yellow
as the satin sofa on which he sits. and
I sit on another al the other end OF
the room. end II drips, drips, drips, AND
mzzles iniz2les. mizzles. or pours,
pours, ponrs, the whole afternoon long.
4 most melancholy sermon on graft
IA fed wishes might be made OF us"
Without affection all marriages are
as miserable IS they ought to be. but
In Ireland they arc unbearnble for
irish homes get nearly all their sun
shine from Irish hearts.
India wrecks the constitution OF
English pcol'ie English children can't
live there at all, and they are sent
home IS soon as possible, much to
the grief OF their parents. who have to
be separa;ed from them for years and
years. There was formerly a term Of
fourteen years for English regiments
serving in India, but that has been
mcrcifully. shortened. Englishwonen
lose all their bloom and visor there.
and grow yellow. pale. listless, ancmic
under that burning sun and in those
maarial unries. though most of them
are sent up into the IIimalnyas as
oftenn,ass nosSible TO enable them to live
At all in q climate so different from
their own habitat The men fare little
better. MI OF them lose their livers.
and many Of them their lives; or they
are SO invn!lded as TO be sent home
often die on the voyage in sight some
times OF Their own beloved. challky
cliffs, Thc rainy season there is almost
lnbearable 10 all Europeans. and the
neat intoler1hle Al first they continue
with British conservatism and obstin-
acy 10 wear the clothes they have nj