The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-03
COLD
Down in Macon, Georgia


soned it. Then l ate thereof-one |
spoonful. When soup, once treated to
the seasoning given it in this climate,
is accorded an additional dose it has
reached that degree of suficiencv that
places it in the category of those things
of which you should 'touch not, taste
not. l swept all of the nearby
glasses of ice water towards me with
fond and loving clutch and became wat
erlogged as soon as the quantity re-
quired could be persuaded to pass down
my throat. | was little handicapped
in speed by swollen tonsils, but | fiat
ter myself that so long as the water
lasted | cared for about the flow that
one of the flood gates at Vernon would
have unleashed IN the same space Of
time. My companion said that when
| the first of the water struck my throat
| he could see steam coming out. But
| got my money s worth for | was warm
| for the first time since getting south
| Of New York
| They certainly believe, as | have said
| before in insisting that this is year
around climate. They tell me that the
seasoning in that soup was nothing TO
what you get in the summer and vet
now you cannot buy a drink of any
thing at the soda fountains, of which
| here are something like four million
| ere wor'riHr overtime eli of the time,
| without having the obliging gent fill
.he glass half full % cracked lee, even
while he vells for someone to i" smut
e" doc and blows on his fingers to
yarm them after he serves you.
There seems to be sort of a reverse
english on things down here. Since
We got here even the wind has blown
from direction never known before
tor more than a few hours Those who
| don t know | am here are blaming it
on the war and l let it 90 at that,
cause | might be sent home. or run
ont Of town, or something like that.
y GU who are familiar with the Cen
tral Vermont and the Brattleboro street
railway will appreciate the joke that
IS being sprung here about the Southern
railroad \ man claims to have or
dered fried eggs in a dining car. The
waiter returned from the .cafenct :
It the end Of the car with the state
ment that the chef said he couldn t
; fry eggs until the train STONED berau 50
) they insisted on seramhliue.
Writing of street railways brings h
; mind the one | have seen here. Il
looks good but as the ears are all nav
S-you-enter and ] am most of the time
N a state that prevents nv enterinn
: !" tn" usual manner or that reqnirea
" fhc rules q the company 7 haven I
tried them yet, except lodging them
The streets are so blamed wide here
y fhHr J.
GONG 70 run on to a car track. Some
times they are IN the middle OF thc
highway and on other streets they rur
close to the edges OF the pretty mark
! hat separate the two rights of way
= for traffic. just when YOU figure that
! YOU have hit a strrer where the track
IS liable to be near the park YOU hea,
one Of those repeating gongs like the.
nave on fire apparatus up North Yo,
don I stop to look hut Immediately anf
( without proper training. break tkt
standing broad Jump record. I hav,
got so now that | Just naturally iuml
| and walk right alonp. If the ears ar,
| thick enough my tracks must loo
something like those of kangaroo
| But it is good training and helps 7.
| keep down my rapidly increasing grit
| measure.
II 1t is not meant to imply that the car
run like blazes down here. I mea1
merely that it is crime to hitch
fire apparatus bell on such a thing rs
| payas-you enter street ear It Is I'll
association of northern ideas with
southern climate and conditions. I
may be that it is possible to outgro,
it.
Southern climate, Ye Gods, TIL
morning when ! stuck my nose out frol
under the sheet, three blankets, a cove
lid. an overcoat and bathrobe IN
roommate was slamming down the wi,
dow and squirting at the thermomete
He squinted twice, then shutfied to tn
water pitcher and inspected that. TIL
T contents were frozen over in TIL
Id bonny, warm, sunny southland on
ne sunshiny Sunday morning.
| When our Niger shuffied in about
0 clock to build our fire the poor GU
$, was most frozen His teeth chattero
nd as he explained that never befo HAY
in | 'spcrienced anything like dis ye1
rs. spell ob weather. By copious use
wood and kerosene and two Brattl
orc Reformers, Dee. IS and "a, while
sd come on the afternoon mail We
ardav, be soon had fire going al
aargr2l over II for some time befo
king the fire in the alioining ROOF
ats When | gct a morning paper and di
o. cred that the prediction was TIL
d. tac mercury would drop to about
law ahos before night decided to haste
- indite this before | froze up entirel
81, \ rannbal who tried to enjoy the ma
! row IN my bones would get stung.
- Honest, many's the time / ha,
nj taken those old time stories of 33 b
10 low from West Brattleboro and new
raid any attention to them becau
oven with reliable thermometers on t
atreet indicating 10 below | never W
50 blamed cold as | have been in tt
-. climate. Sherman's war saying
nothing ON Macon in December, 49,
If it ever warns m | am going
- -" zee more of this city both from t
round and from the air. The busint
ection is certainly up to date. I
=" streets are the finest | ever saw in
city, very wide. paved clean and W
su- policed both by police officers and t