The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-03-02
FISH AFFECTED
BY WET WEATHER
Also the Sea, Scientist GraveIy De
tlRres; Some LORI and Facts Not
Well known. 6

> eat was licking her coat against the
, grain that she was washing herself
. over the earS and that she was sit
9 ting with her tail to the fire The
result was that the Okuhomn cot in
10 all kinds Of trouble
, The cars were late because there
was heavy storm, So the OklahOmun
! got tu his office an hour ar more late
Onr does not mean 10 assert that
the trains would have been uii time.
and he would not have had to walk
and get his feet wet II the mum had
noticed that the eat was clawing at
the table leg But the point Is that
+ the muu should have known. when he
saw Kitty sharpening her claws ou the
' iWoritc apple tree. that there was go
lug 10 be- bad weather lie should have
D started 10 town earlier
1 Prescicnce in Weather.
, The eat Is supposed ru have inside
knowledge or the state Of the weather
. iu fact a certain share in the ar
Engagement uf ii Sailors consider II
most unwisr 10 provoke cat and
when they want to provoke gnle, they
u.
practically all the animals are credit
g. ed with TrScicnce In the matter Of
, weather There Is no limit TO the lore
Il, about them II Il donkey hrays. IL
means rain and some invidious per
4 son has suggested that this was the
origin uf our weather bureau. but
, such u remark Is only IN for scoru.
" ltul ignoring If the swallows do this
'' ar the stork~ that 1t means something
or other Even Il lerch in jar Is un
: Idcrstood 10 know whole lot about
r meteorological conditions
II Ihrc centuries ago there was such a
e rnrr rur rlIymng that cpipnmmatists
{ lWolld say almost anything for the
snkr of q rhyme For Instance, this
rpiiuph
Here ueth the body W Thomas Woodhcu
THE hiudrsl of Husbands. and best of
mrn
d u- uumr was woudrock but that
, would not come I'm rhymrD
The wits used to make weather lin
81 giles and, If fair happened to be the
word that rhymcd, they put In fair" :
x otherwise they said CLOUDY and let
'> /, 20 at that Mccausr cpigrummnt
81 ISIS In those days, even nS now. prefer
y red to say something clever. even II II
r happened tu be- entirely untrue
IS liu the weather lore founded ON the
'"ctluus of animals happens to be- fair
.ly true Coming changes affect the
animals In well known ways, and they
-, pass the knowledge ON And the after
, .cff cjs NJ weather is perfectly percrpt
10 lhlc Even The fist and marine life
" so Hu Engli, scientist rcpOrts-arr
rwlCrcd iu WnnoI In wet years Not
IT, hcuusc they can't stand the moisture
y but because the spawn floating ON the
II surface " the sea are destroyed by
ipclement weather
@ Moral Influence Oh Man.
r. Man being an animal he feels the
X physical effects Of weather also But
IS man has Il soul besides So weather
,c becomes for him great moral influ
n cucr, the most fertile subject uf gOs
n, sip the greatest lottery IN existence
, Watching the weather becomes the
>, most absorbing VI sports Predicting
y, II is the greatest popular scientific
pursuit Discussing II Is the legal ten
na, ,oinann Some ,,,,II a,an sDI
Z low our twentieth century passion for
is reform and reform H. although. as the
PR old New England saying has IT, much
~ h. said. but little done II only Jupiter
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