The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-22
Winter Season Begin Today, Jack Frost
 Again Holds Sway

We'll, here it is winter again.
 The winter solstice, if you know what we mean, is due today, accord ing to the calendar. bringing with it 9 complete line of snow, sleet, frost, ice iccyles and other gelid goods.
 Fact!
 However. it seems only pertinent to add that this astronomical calculation is for the southern hemisphere only, and is to be taken into consideration only if you contemplate a trip to Buenos yres, Rio, Cape Town, or other city in southern cline.
 In these partss today marks the be- ginning of the good old summertime, so we'll and favorably known among ice dealers, proprietors of summer of soda fountains, manufacturers of bathing costumes and others who capitalize the heated period.
 It is 9 sweetly solemn thought, however, that our South Ameri can neighbors will soon be stoking their furnaces and cussing the coal deal- CTS.
 In far northern climes, where Old Sol is on the job nearly all of the time, the festival of the Midnight Sun is now being celebrated In past years thousands of Americans and Europeans Hooked to Norway in June in order to make the trip to North Cape, where daylight is continuous for several weeks Owing to the war, the Norwegian tourist crop is very light this year, and the men who sell postcards and souvenirs at Trondhjem are not likely to do a. f1ourishing business
 The festival Of the Midnight Sun is also celebrated annually at Fair banks, Alaska A year ago the biz feature was a midnight baseball game which was witnessed by more than ra z !. A
 In Paris the summer soIstice is the occasion of a novel celebration. Many Of the most distinguished scientis sts and savants of France gather on the top of Eife1 Tower at midnight and ! remain to salute the sunrise on the first day of summer This custom of tworshipping the sun at the sum
 mer solstice was originated by the l Astronomical Society and has been an annual event for a dozen years Last year the 'tsun worshippers'' included I Camille Tlammarion, Mme- Chandor of the Paris Observatory; M. Eiffel, the engineer who designed the great tower which bears his name; Prof. PerciyaI Lowell, the American astronomer, and Camille Saint-Saens, the musician A banquet was given in the evening, and on the appearance of the first rays of the sun Loie Full l Ter gave a. 'ssun dance
 Although civilized humans now pay | little attention to the summer sol stice, it was formerly the occasion of l general celebrations. Tn medieval England and southern Europe the 1 longest day was marked by religious exercises and popular demonstrations. The sacrifice and dance of the sum- mer so1stice was for centuries the popular festival of the Scand1 navians and it is still performed in remote parts of Norway and Sweden. The American aborigines also held 1 sun dances about the twenty-second of June, when the sun has gained its | highest northern point, and among some of the less civilized tribes of the 1 United States and Canada this cele- brat1on remains an annual event. The Shoshoni sun dance continued fol seventy 1.-two hours without rest, and I many died from exhaustion. Those who survived the ordeal became heroes among their people, and were also supposed to rid themselves of al l evils and naisfortunes.