Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-12

is burned out yeu will get SO cold you
win begin to wonder what Is the mat
Ter and look at tie stove to discover
that the FIRE is cut. II u Wood iire IS
the heat in the kitchen range YOU
want to get Your memory into fairly
good condition in order to have some
eatabIe meals. although the hens viii
gladly eat up all your mistakes. Even
with coal and steam heat it will he
tend fires all day on an especially
windy day. or . very cold one
Washing dishes on such II cold day
as this is Il race to keep up with the
hot water before it COOKS II, rs q
newcomer did YOU put the dishes from
the evening meal ia soak until morn
ing. you may have the fun OF tha~=
ing them apart, and getting the ice
formations out of the teacups without
breaking them.
Something unusual will happen on
such an unusual day. 1t is almost 4
law Of nature. It may be that the
freezing pump in the water works
System viii freeze and burst and fur
nish the proper dramatic event for the
day Nothing one can say about such
q thing will be too bad. 50 that there
accumulated feelings Of n bitter cold
day, when 10 do the simplest ehore out
doors takes grit. Perhaps Il radiator
may burst. or the sink pipe free up.
4 calamitous happening, Something
viii happen to nearly everybody. In
the middle of the afternoon the teie=
phones will make it possible to get
sympathy from the neighbors and
there viii be a general swapping of
terrible" things. and u frank discus
sion of the weather
After the unusual mas happened,
things seem 10 move along better.
Frank MuHsey has said that when you
are at the bottom. anyhow. it isn't
any kind Of a fab TO 20 lower After
the worst has happened other things
do not seem much. Even the fact that
the COWS take this day TO make an ex-
cursion down where q wood chopper
they know is working. and will not
come up until the man Of the house
goes after them. because they are SO
engaged eating yellow pine needles Off
newly felled trees. seems trivial Early
il the day. though, it would not have
seemed trivial to take such q walk
after provoking cows when it was be-
low zero. The fact that pet rooster
has frozen his comb is received rather
calmly Eggs may freeze and burst,
but NIGHT comes and finds the animals
fed and watered and AIDED in COM
parative comiport.
At evening there is warm. rosy
sunset, which does not warm the
weather at all, only the soul of those
who look. Some can not take time
to look. for of all places where life
is strenuous, farm is the worst.
There is really something TO do every
minute. When Whittier wrote snow
bound it is plain that he never had
had any experience with hens as an
industry. If he had. he would not
have had such pleasant reeollections
of an extreme winter day III the coun-
try. There may have been time in
the past history of country life when
there were days in tho winter when
not much was done except To sit by the
fire and eat apples and nuts. and pop
corn, but it is not now. espeeiallySif
the mercury is below zero.
After everything is all made right
for the night and YOU are so sleepy
and tired from being out in the cold
and trying to keep people. animals and
things warm, you must sit up to keep
the fires going in order TO keep the
house warm during the night. The
best thing about such cold day is
that it has happened only twice In
the last eight years.-Hartford Cour-
ant.