The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-20
SNOWY CHRISTMAS
 IS WISH OF MANY
GREAT HOLIDAY HAS BEEN 'sWHITET' ONLY TEN TIMES IN
 FORTY YEARS, HOWEVER.

FORTY YEARS, HOWEVER. Records of Forty Years Show Ten i White Xmas Days. : 1872-Clear. followed by threaten ing weather and snow at 9:30 P. M.
 1873-Fair, but some snow on the ground.
 i 1874-C1ear and cold, but pleasant, green Christmas.
 1S75-Clear and foggy. but no snow
 187e-Cloudy and threatening, with snow at intervals.
 1s77-Fair and pleasant; green ! 1s7S-Fair and cold; green Christ mas.
 l 1S79-Cioudy and rainy, with snow i 1SSo@C1oudy and threatening, with much snow on the ground. i 18s1-C1ear and pleasant: green
 1ss2-MiId and pleasant; green Christmas.
 l 1883-C1oudy, but green Christ mas.
 18s4-Near1y an inch of snow on ground and cloudy weather. 1885-Fair and green Christmas. l 18S6-F'air and green Christmas. 1887-Clear and pleasant and green 1888-C1ear and mild and green Christmas.
 1SS9-Light rain in early morning, followed by clear and warm weather; green Christmas.
 1ss0-C1oudy and raw but a green Christmas.
 1S91-Dark and gloomy, with fog; green Christmas.
 1S92-Cold, with snow falling green Christmas.
 1ss4-Cloudy and mild; green 1ss5-C1oudy, but mild; green
 1s96-Two inches of snow on the ground; clear and cold. 1897-Clear and cold; green Christ |. 18e7-Clear and cold; green Christ mas.
 1ses-C1ear and pleasant; green
 19oo-warm- and pleasant, with light rain in afternoon; green Christ mas.
 E 191-Cloudy and pleasant, with light snow at intervals in afternoon; green Christmas.
 1eo2-About two inches of snow on ground; temperature, much below normal.
 1sOs-C1oudy and disagreeab1e day, with rain until P. M.
 19O4-Clear and cold; green Christ mas.
 1so5-snow most of the day; cold
 1906-Clear. cold and windy; green Christmas.
 1eo7-C1ear and moderate in tenn perature; green Christmas.
 19Os-Generally cloudy, with rain part of the day, which turned into
 1909-Blizzard
 1s1o-Cold. with slight furry of snow in the morning:
 1s11-Nild. with 100 per cent of
 The weatherman said it wasn't quite fair to ask him for, a forecast. willing to -oblige, he pointed out, but. still tn ere are limits zto everything.
 He agreed. without hesitation: that There might be a bowling blizzard. He agreed, too, that it might rain He also agreed that the day. might D be fair f., 1,.. and balmy; Indeed, he was
 But" he protested. Eff I said now that it would snow. 1t might rain, and if said it would rain 1t might snow have 8 long memory on weather fore-s casts will unanimously agree that this Is undoubtedly so.
 T can give you fine recipe for Christmas Day weather, though volunteered the forecaster, eager to please. "A day of biting cold. the on house top and city street and field and these all snug1y covered in a crisp white blanket spread during the night There's a Christmas Day fit for king"
 Many a householder, who, though he eyes the dwindlfng coal pile with S1nK1nE he0rL, yet reta1n6 the spirit of a boy. will hope that the weather chef will serve up such a menu. that the day will be cold and clear with the music. of sleigh bells following up: that wonderful silence with which dawn comes when snow is every where. = s5a: f'-'-ss.
 And the youngsters! to them a green Christmas is but half 8 Christmas. Where so sad a sight as the unfortunate who has been given a sled by Santa Claus and has only a stretch of nice, green grass to pull it over? Sad situation! And with out snow the turkey loses it's savour, and the plum pudding its blazing zest. Many a childish plea ascends for snow on Christmas Day, that Santa's rein deer may find easy going and that Yuletide joy may be complete.
 But the cruel facts must be set forth. In forty long years there have been only ten snowy Christmas days, one of them in 1909, when the bliz-s gard, to children an event of happy memory, wrapped the world in white and made the holiday such a glorious one.
 Last Christmas the weather was sprfnklfke. There was 100 per cent of sunshine, in the jargon of the fore caster, who means thereby that the sun shone all day. The earth was green. The temperature got as high as AT degrees. and at its lowest was cn1y 35.
 But this year, better luck, may bel
 BANKER JORDAN NAMED.