The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-21
HE'S HERE GOOD OLD SUMMER,

He is here. Meaning MT. G. O. Summer, the prime minister of His Royal Nibs King Sol. The almanac says so. In these parts, according to the astronomical sharps, the Sum mer so1stics is due to-day, and so great is our confidence in the almanac makers that we accept their say-so without question, although we have to confess that we wouldn't know a so1stice if met one in the middle of the street.
 That Summer is a "he'' we know from the ancient Greeks, but we'd know it anyway, just as we know that Miss Spring is a lovely, scanti1y clad maiden. bedecked with flowers and with charms only partially concealed by flowing draperies. And we are equally certain that Mrs. Autumn is a buxom natron, fat, fair and forty, and Winter-King Winter-a vener- able old chappie with flowing white whiskers.
 Some artists have sought to depict
 all four seasons in feminine guise, but | 1t won't do. Everybody with any in | te11igence knows better than that. It | is true that the Summer girl, clad in
 bathing suit-and, by the way, they
 are making them very abbreviated and | charming this year-it is true that the | Summer girl stands as the sign and 1 SyInDOl O4 t10 SOdSOh 11OW uPO11 anu l no Summer resort advertisement or booklet is complete without a picture | of one of them. That doesn't prove ] that Summer is of the masculine per | suasion. Quite the contrary. Do you | think the Summer girl would be so 1 dfppy about Summer if she didn't | conceive of him as man?
 l To the farmer Summer is a season l associated with ripening and harvest
 ing of grain, and already the wheat
 harvest has commenced in southern | c1imes. To the city dweIler the tor
 rid season brings hope of brief re- spite from toll, a vacation from indus try, a breathing space by the seashore | or in the country or the mountains.
 Summer also brings the usual col umns of advice on "how to keep cool though burning up." Already news 1 paper editors are being besieged with matter bearing and appertaining to this great question, but the sug 1 gestton which seems most valuable is contained in a letter from a reader. Here it is:
 Last Summer was unable to take a vacation, but I got through nicely with a minimum of suffering, thanks to the following device, which may in- terest some of your readers who suffer from the heat.
 ''I had an artist paint for me large
 picture of a girl, clad in the costume of
 Eve or September Morn. She was seated a cake of ice, with an ice
 berg as 8 background, and suspended above her head was a shower bath arrangement from which flowed a film of water covering her whole body. At enc side was a large electric fan. She had herfeet in pail from which
 a 1un.l- of ice protruded, and she was
 eating ice cream. This painting had
 hung above my desk directly in front of me, and whenever the heat began to wear upon my nerves stopped : work few minutes and gazed at the
 picture. Such is the effect of mind
 over matter that in a few minutes l began to feel a pleasant sensation of
 coolnesS creep over my feverish body
 and in little while I was shivering g.
 In fact, if I looked at it too long 3 had to close the windows and put on 3 my oyercoat. As they say in the tes- timorials, wouldn't take a thousand = dollars for this picture ii I couldn't g get another. As Summer 1fe-saVel t it has all the cooling beverages ever I compounded by barkeep or soda squirt s left at the post. While the idea is = my own, freely abandon all patent e or copyright privileges in the hope o1 s becoming Q benefactor of suffering hu- v manity.''