Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-09

Well didn't We say last night : sleeping
would be better than that Of Wedncs-
DAYS
Who made good-the fellows who made
this prophecy or old Dad Crouch. who
fretted and fumed and worried and huzzed
around the Thermometer like bug around
M electric light, and >wore no one could
O. would sleep ever again, and inaliy
worked himself up into such a state that
les wearing the latest style IN lre-derhics
on his head today
Nhv, the optomists. of course the
good. old Ne-Should Worry Club They
knew the weather was rccord-hrcakIng
for heat. but what of that All the kick
Ing and grouching they could Do with the
f,ct Of the Hun army and the voice Of 2
defeated political aspIant combined
couldn't alter things. 70 they made the
icSt Of it ard kept aS cool a possible.
And see what they got 4 good night :
steep last night, because there was talr
breeze and the mercury dropped as low
a 7s degrees And after all the highest
il hit YESTERDAY was only %, which Is q
mighty lot different from the lO6 Of
Tuesday. and don't forget II. And then
tins morning when they got ready 10 go
to work-say at 80 o Clock-It was
only s..
CLOUDS PROMISE RAIN.
Furthermore. there were clouds in the
SKY. even then tempcring the sun : rays,
and a nice Intle wind blowing As
matter Of fact the chap whose Panama
That nice little wind grabbed al Tenth
:ad Market streets just on the bell OF
IS. and led him chase almost down
u the Public Building didn't think i q
little wind. but whacking big one.
And so YOU see where you get of by
being cheerful and hopeful these days
! ou cant expect TO keep your collar I'M
maculate or vour brow sweatless, because
Providence doesn't build August days
that way. But you can keep your nerves
steady and your power Of resistance up.
Of course. if you re the sort that see a
! lack cloud behind every silver Inning,
why then, your case Is hopeless and
you're in line for the Iron Cross for
croucliness In the face OF friendly
The let-up has done world Of good
I'll around You don't hear the babies
complaining With that petulent quer'llols-
ness in their erying that YOU did and
that's what rlarks the worst phase OF hot
weather \ II do the sick feel the heat as
they did Monday and Tuesday and
Wednesday
Don't mistake tho situation. however
The heat wave hasn't entirely passed
We will continue TO have warm weather
because warm weather IS what we can
look for at this season OF the year
especially since the spring and summer
were so backward.
But-and it's a colossal weather
like Tuesdays and v ednesday's is quite
unlikely to rectr this summer Such days
are few and far between. which Is proved
bv the fact that not even the Oldest IN
habitant recollects anything like Wednes-
day In the course Of his long and useful
career as possessor Of critcrions and
standards.
And as today wakes to evening and
evening to night don't forget 70 take
along the little old umbrella because well
YOU know what umbrellas were made for
and the weathernan says they re likely
TO be useful.
As to tomorrow? Well, perhaps We
ought to let tomorrow take care of itself
hut for the sake Of those whose curiosity
l. like that Of the old maid who always
reads the last chapter Of Bobcrt W
~laifnbers' last novel before she reads the
first. Washington dope says the
weather will be warn and the skies
cloudy" In other words, il probably
viii be very like today
And there YOU are.
TALK or ANOTHER BLIZZARD
It appear from what We read that
somebody or something up IL Alberta,
which Is away off in Northwestern
Canada, where they raise mountains
timber, wheat and crackcrjack fighting
men. has started sonnet ing which the
weather sharks call low This low
appears to be d barometric depression
which is a breeder Of heat When the
low gets to full for utterance, Or to hold
any more, il disperses itself over the
adjacent lansdcape III the shape Of a hot
wave.
Now they say that this low is going to
djsperse itself eastward and southeast
ward and head for the Atlantic via this
neck of the American woods-whlch i a
NICE kind way Of forecastlng another
sizzaTd. !.
Well. let it sizz. In the first place wei
believe ii when we see if and feel it. and
its double-breasted fact that II i got TO
have an affidavit as to its ability as q
sizzard, because we've just had one and
we know what real ones are. As matter
, of fact, we're sure it's going to be false
alarm, a monkey run, foui-nush, oop-
tail, a voluntary bankrupt