Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-22
WELL, WELL, WELL,
ANOTHER SNOWFALL
Weather Man Springs a Surprise
by No Means Welcome
to Wilmington.
PROBABLY LIGHT SNOW"
Is WEATHERMAN'S JOKE
The Washington wcatherman'
Delaware forecast today says.
Cloudy and warmer tonight,
probably light snow: gentle south
east winds. Saturday unsettled
and warmer"
BY Goshl George Wash!
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BY Goshl George Wsshi
II he should rise
From his cold grave, where his body les
Into these progressive davs
And see the various ways
In which the weather has Irs JaInmcd
He'd say
In his good. old-fashioned way
w ell Ill be- horn-swogglcd
With this bit of free verse" we rise "a
announce that it showed this morning and
to say with the rest of Wilmington. We'll
well who would have thought it7''
Nobody Certainly not after what the
city has gone through this winter In snow
storms cold waves and other unblesscd
meteorological stunts. But, when II comes
10 the weather we have to put our official
imprimatur or the classic remark Of our
esteemed Irish philosopher friend, G.
Bernard Shaw, ~ on never can tell.
There were, simply hosts Of people
ourselves among the number--wtre
thought, when Monday opened tho
busy week, that gentle spring had come,
or at least had sent her harbinger abroad
Ia notify the world that she had chased
Old Dad Winter off te the North PoIe or
some other habitat To his liking. There
the sap was rising IN the trees, yearnlng
Tor the soft things of life, CLINT in the eye
Of youth when a pretty girl passed-all
the usual ingredients Of the vernal season.
But-ah. that fateful, tremendous
but" All Of a sudden the temperature
dropped 46 degrees in sbout eighteen
hours and Old Pop Winter came roaring
back, business being good in Wilmington
and time-and-half-time being paid to
diligert workers for overstaying the Job
WINTER THINGS STILL WORN.
Light overcoats went back 10 the
camphor and spring dresses to-wcll,
wherever ii is that the ladies put them.
Overcoats were turned up around mascu-
line ears and fIrs once again caressed
slender white Threats. And at that folks
couldn't get into their heads that the cold
spell WAS anything more than a brief re-
turn engagement OF the one -night-stand
sort.
And when you crswIed out of bed tins
morning and hastily arrayed yourself III
your clothing had anybody told you that
it was going TO snow you might have
paved the way to assault and battery by
what you would have said.
Then after YOU got to the office and
forgot the weather IN work somebody
looked out the window and said, Holy
Smoke, fellows, it snowin'."
No, it couldn't be-but you looked out
the window just the same and found that
it was. fever see such confounded
weather in all your hfe? Whensit goin to
let up Here it is Lent and we've abandon
ed and forsworn Satan and all his works for
at least q part of the forty days, and we're
hooverizing (because we have to- and saw
lug pork and wheat and wishing things on
the Kaiser and knitting things for the SOL
diers and altogether being the best kind
of Americans We know how-and then
along comes a snow storm on Washin z
tons Birthday.
If you can beat it you can WIN the war
your own lonely self.