South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-23

in the morning with the same old
blue cotton wrapper on, and rides IN
of a night and runs across her all
outdtted in white silk evening
frOck, waving an ostrich-feather
fan and monkeying with q posy of
lily flowers. Wouldn't IL make you
look for your pocket compass?
You'd be liable 20 kiss her before
YOU collected your presence Of
mind.
By and by. the flood Of Ross talk
WAS drawn up into the clouds ESQ IL
pleased me TO fancy and there con-
deused into the finer snowflakes of
thought; and we sat silent about the
mysterious influence upon man eX-
erted by that ermine-lined monster
that now covered our little world,
and knew he was right.
OF all the curious kniCkkuaCks,
mysteries. puzzles Indian gifts. rat
traps. and well-disguised blessings
that the gods chuck down 10 us
from the Olympian peaks. the most
disquieting and evil-bringing is the
snow. BY scientific analysis il is alb
solute beauty and purity-so at the
beginning we look doubtfully at
chemistry.
IL falls upon the world. and 10.
we live i'm another. It hides i'm a
night the old scars and familiar
| places with which we have grown
heartsiCk or enamored. SO, as quiet
] ly as we can, we hustle on our en-
I brOidered robes and HE us on Prince
/ Camaralzamans horse or I'm the
| reindeer sleigh into the white coun-
/ try where the seven COlors converge.
| This is when our fancy can over
come the bane of II.
But In certain spots of the earth
comes the snow madness. made
! known by people turned wild and
. distracted by the bewildering veil
I that has obsCured the only world
/ they know. In the cities. the white
fairy who sets the brains of her
dupes whirlinE by a wave of her
wand is cast for the comedy role.
Her diamond shoe buckles glitter
like frost; with a pirouette she in
vites the spotless carnival.
But in the waste places the snow
IS sardonic- SpOnging out the world
of the OutlierS, il gives no fOOthOld
! on another sphere in return II
makes of the earth a armament un-
der foot 10 leaves us Clawing and
stumbling in space in an inImlCa
NTH element whose evil Outdoes its
/ strangeness and beauty There ma
ture, low com edieune. plays her
tricks on man. Though she has put
him forth as her highest product fl
appears that she has fashioned hin
with what seems almost incredible
Carelessness and indeNterity. one
sided and without balance. with his
two halves uneQualiy fashioned and
Joined. he must ever jog his eCcen-
trio way. The snow falls. the dark
ness caps il. and the ridiculous man
biped strays in accurate circles unit
he succumbs in the ruins OF his de
feCtive architecture
In the throat OF the thirsty the
) snow is vitriol. In appearance a,
plausible as the breakfast food OF
the angels. it is as hot in the mouth
; as ginger. increasing the panEs OF
the water-famished. IL is a deriva
tive from water. air. and some cold
uncanny. fire from which the Calori,
has been extracted. Good has beer
said OF IL. even the poets. Crazed by
ITS spell and shivering In their attiCi
!. under its touch have indited per
r manent melodies commemorative o.
its beauty.
Still. 90 the saddest overcoated op
timist il IS plague corrOdinl
plague that Pharaoh successfully
sidestepped IL benefcently cover
the wheat fields. swelling the crop
and the flour trust gets Us by tn
throat like a sudden quinsy
, spreads the tail OF its white kirtl
over the red seams Of the rugge,
, lnorth-and the Alaskan short stor.
Is born Etiolated perfdy. il shell
ters the mountain traveller burrow
ing from the icy air-and. melting
b tomorrow. browns his brother in tn
valley below.
At its worst Il Is lock and key an,
/ crucible. and the wand Of Gree
/ When 10 corrals man IN lionel
d ranches. mountain cabins. and for
Z est huts. the snow makes apes an
S tigers OF the hardest IL turns tn
- bosoms OF weaker one 20 glass. thei
tongues 10 infants rattlcs. thci
I hearts TO lawIessness and spleen
Is not all from the isolation. I'll
! I snow Is not merely a blockader:
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