Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-06
SAY, LET'S DREAM
IT'S WINTER TIME
And Have Glorious Visions of
Snow Carpeted Streets and
Overcoat Days.

This story is supposed to be about the
heat last night and today, list as IT you,
poor sweltering reader, didn't know all
about that heat yourself; just as # YOU
hadn't tossed about your bed between
midnight and getting-up time, trying IN
vain to find cool spot; just as If you
hadn't informed yourself, when YOU
emerged from home this morning and
headed for work. that today was going
to be another sizzler like yesterday.
Just as if
And a., how many times did YOU
get ar last night and sit at the window
where YOU bamhoozled yourself into be-
licvinC there was more air, and there
wasn't? And how often did that baby
next door wake YOU up Just as YOU thought
YOU were of al last night, and then your
wife told YOU YOU ought 70 be ashamed
Of Yourself George or Bill, or John, or
whatever II is. because YOU were q baby
Yourself once, and the poor little things
can't sleep these times any more than
Won can. and what do YOU think they are
anyway
And then when YOU did get TO sleep,
after YOU stretched out on the floor be-
cause YOU thought il was cooler there,
how oh earth did the clock Jump twice
around the block in fifteen minutes and
wake Won up just when YOU wanted
few minutes more
Oh, phsaw, what's the use.
Lets be frank about II, and say that
newspapers have TO run heat stories,
when the weather is like il Is now, so
that posterity twenty, forty, sixty years
from now can look over the files TO find
out If 1918 had a hotter August 6 than
August 6, 1888 August s, 1858, or
August 6, 1878, or any OF the way stations
IN between.
There YOU are. and the secrets out
Now YOU know why YOU re told when you
know 1t quite as well as the sweating re
porter who writes this that today Is one
son-Of-gIn of q hot day. that last night
was sure some peach OF a night, and that
goodness only knows what going TO
happen to YOU you forget the other
fellow Il the heat doesn't let up
Therefore, let dream OF good old
winter time. Dye remember last WIN
ter-when the mercury fell overheard
down the tube and mt zero? Dye recol-
lect the morning YOU looked out the bed
room window and saw two feet of good
white, honest-to-goodness. cold snow. and
said naughty things about having TO
clump through II on your way 10 work.
And doesn't your mental Czash-regster
record how nice and chill your house was
when YOU didn't have coal IN the cellar TO
heat it up with, and couldn't beg, Dor
row or steal any?
All. them wuz the halcyon days' r.
ONLY YOU didn't know IL Think how you
could have conserved the cold Ia Hoov-
er. against these awful DAYS Of August
if YOU only had known how TO bottle II
up, or can 1t, or tuck II away, down IN
the cellar somewhere
say, amt it q fact that what we don I
know about conservation would all q
book. Just look at the way we eat ice
cream. and drink soft stuff these days
Why, it's a SIN and a shame. Next
summer well need them az much as we
do now, and By that time there II be some
ice cream administrator, or soft drink
executive on the Job If the war keeps up
and will be reduced to near-gaze
dav, with a total of not more than two
plates or one glass a week. 80 let s
start a saving fund for such things now
p S.-On orders from the city editor,
the poor swelterlng reporter Is forced 70
wake from his dream Of cool weather and
cooling drinks and put in the story the
fact that the thermometer WASH below
So last night, that II was s. at Z a u.
L%eidN. anu tildt dt d III II ~tSS o.
and that Heaven only knows where 1t will
stop Further reports from the battle
front will be received at noon or there
aboUts.
P P. S.-Noon temperature 95 in the
shade, and goodness gracious only knows
how much in the sun. Nothing doing in he
way Of let-up, according TO the govern
ment weather sharps at Washington, who
lacODIcaIly saw Fair and continued
warm
The Of calling this weather warm, 7"
with not even the smallest adjective on
the side
Wilmington was cool yesterday com
pared with other large cities Of the country
according TO the Weather Bureaus table
of temperatures. St Louis, Mo, Louis
vile, Ky, and Indianapolis, Ind, re
ported temperatures of l04 degrees, and
were the hottest places in the country.
In St Louis the temperature had only
fallen two degrees late last night
Pittsburg rivaled the far western cities
for heat records. The temperature there
assembled to 100 degrees during the day.
According TO the Weather Bureau, the
hot wave, central yesterday over the
Lower Missouri and Middle Mississippi
Valleys was moving eastward. the maxi
mum temperatures equaling the highest
August temperatures on record.
William Guy, who lives on Mechanic
street, was overcome by heat today and
was treated at the Delaware Hospital.