The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-08-24
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. "A, IL.
SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER.

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The weather is something that all
of us talk about,a at one time or anoth-
er, if not all the time. For one thing,
it is a conventional and safe topic of
conversation. Whatever we may as-I
sert about the weather, there is slight
probability of reprisal, We do not fear
to have the worst we may be impelled |
to say, under the spur of irritation,
repeated For we realize that neither
condemnation nor praise will make
any difference so far as the weather
is concerned; that the weather VIII
pursue, its own course, undlsturDed,
and that it will not retaliate, as our
friends and neighbors have way OF
doing when they discover that we
have been gossiping about them.
Another reason why the weather Is
so generally talked about is that it is
80 intimate a part of our lives; it Is
so inevitable and unacceptable. What
ever we may do or wherever we may
90. it is impossible to avoid the
weather. All of our daily life, from
wears end to years end, is neces-
sarily adjusted to the weather-the
clothing we wear, the food we eat
the provision we make for warmth III
winter and GOODNESS in summer, our
recreations and our sports and to
some extent our industrial activities.
And so we watch the skies and the
clouds and the winds and the tempera
ture from day 20 day and lay each
days plans accordingly.
A still further reason for our con
Germ about the weather is that for tn
most part we are dissatisfied with II
IT is true that we, have rare days 81
faultless in their beauty and charm a
to invoke general praise and admira
ton, but apart from these eXceptiona
days, which linger in the memory q
a benediction, the larger number &
us are more irritated than otherWiS
by the weather We speak OF t,
weather only to disparage it, We fec
that if the task of ordering IN
weather has a habit of being unret
sonable-that we have rainy weathe
when it should be dry, that it is dr.
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be cool it is hot that the sun shine
hotly when a cloudy sky would be
better taste, that winters cold an
summers heat both are unnecessary
heightened, and so on. When 1t
winter we wonder if the cool eve
will come to and end. In summt
we become impatient with the hea
wishing for power to speed its depar
ing. And the "in-between" weatht
of spring and autumn, which
neither one thing nor the othe
neither summer nor winter nor an
thing else recognizable, but miXtu
of the bad qualities of all the seaso
is nothing short of detestable and u
bearable.
This general complaint of t
weather comes about by reason OF |
fact that while we are obliged to II
in intimate relations with the weatf
We do not take it into our aifectic
and seek to be friendly with 1t.
are all the time trying to shut
weather out of our lives. We conf
ourselves closely within walls OF w
and brick and stone whose chief I
nose is to exclude as much OF
weather as possible. The slight
departure from normal on the I
of the weather drives us to our cas-
of refuge, within which we bar
doors. and from which we enc
only when the weather again COZ
scends to smile. Such thing as b
ing the weather and defying 1t
seeking to understand it in its cor
nv moods we leave to the fool hi
and those urged by necessity.
In this we err greatly. For
ri more one knows about the wea
the more likable it becomes, the T
friendly it appears, the more enj
BILE it is. Close daily intimacy
he weather not only allays irrita
begets patience and admira
nan whose daily life and