The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-05-02
THE CURSE OF CLIMATE. e.

! Although we have all about US the
| melancholy and striking examples OF
men and women who throughout long
life have complained of, and fought with,
the climate and yet never have changed
| it one iota, many of US are Just as eli
mate-ridden as they. This is curse.
| One month it rains too much; another
month it rains too little. One month
| is too sunny, another month is too cloudy.
The winter is cold, the spring is raw, the
summer is hot, the fall is wet. 1t is an
abominable climate, and is not what it
used to be.
But it goes right along.
Well, there is a perfect climate else
where. Of course there is. So we may
pack up and pull out for California. But
! what regular downright rains! And who
said that it wasn't wet and cold in Cali
fornia? Why, this is worse than we
have; never was so cold in my life. Oh,
but the winter this year is very unusual.
Now, if you had been here last win
ter! And
Oh, but the summer this year is very
unusual! We never have had such heat
before. Now, if you had been here last
Any way, what's the matter with Colo
RADIO, then? That is the perfect cline.
But, gosh! Do you always have it so dry
and windy? Oh, no, indeed! This is very
exceptional. We don't remember that
it ever has been so dry as this year, or
so windy. And
Yes, the spring is later than usual.
The winter has set in earlier than usual
We rarely have so much rain. We rare
ly have so much snow. Come last year,
or come next.
Kansas is toe hot and windy, and too
cold and windy. Very exceptional; very
unusual.
The South is too humid. Very unusual,
for this time of year, sub.
The North is burning in summer; freez-
ing in winter Hottest, and coolest, ever
known. That's right.
Florida-New Y ork Oregon! Kokomo,
Keokuk, and Indianapolis! Climate,
climate, climate! The used to be, and
always to be, best And still people
live and thrive, and the world ways on.
Perhaps Adam complained of the
cline, the first day that he uncovered his
roses and the late frost stole in and nip
ped them. There must have been frosts
in Eden. | never knew an Eden without
an occasional frost (after you get there) =,
and l have fruit-land prospectuses by
the bushel. The apple requires some
frost. And from the days of the first
Eden down to these days, mankind and
womankind have been complaining of
climate and trying to find better, and
never yet have they been satisfied. No.
and the United States Weather Bureau
has been powerless in the matter.
And, odd enough, as said, the world
wags on and people live and thrive The
Eskimo and the Iowan, the New Yorker
and the Londoner, the mountaineer and
the swamp paddler-they all would like
to change their climate, if they could.
But they don't. And meantime they
keep pretty healthy, and keep pretty
happy, and when they break away in
search of the indefinable, they run into
something worse, and as rule tare
mighty glad to be back again in their
own environments.
Climate is a staple. 1t comes mixed;
it is not an unmixed blessing, and it is
not an unmitigated curse. When l am
born again l shall peacefully accept my
climate as it arrives to me. But, alas, |
am too far gone in habit now. Edwin L.
Sabin in April Lippincott's.