Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-04-06

Everybody congratulated these young
people on their achievements.
At the close of the meeting Mrs.
Byrd, assisted by Misses Helen Nichol-
son and Isabelle Byrd, served a dainty
and refreshing salad course with iced
tea.
The next meeting will be held with
Mrs. Kate Kernaghan and Mrs. j. w.
Stewart in May.
Miss Florence Minis Sees Great
Snow Storm.
Dear Advertiser:
The weather in Minnesota is as
treacherous as the Indians who used
to roam It's hills, and like them, it
gives gift and takes it back again.
Sunshine and warmth come for a
day, and then or as speedily changes
to ice and snow.
At two o'clock Saturday morning
1 was rudely awakened by the noise
of window being knocked back and
forth. To my surprise, on getting
up, found the storm window, which
lis the outer glass used for protec-
tion in the North country, covered
with ice, and the wind was sweep
ing and the snow falling in perfect
hurricane. The noise outside had
also awakened my friend, who sleeps
in a different part of the fiat. We
suddenly came upon each other un-
expcctedly at 2 A. M. and together
we licked at the storm from the
different angles that each window
could afford. D
I have never seen a sand storm in
desert, but / imagine this snow
storm would resemble that except
for the difference in temperature.
The sand on the desert is supposed
to be hot, but this snow was very,
very cold, as. l found only too well
the next morning.
thought of the peach trees down
South, and wondered just how far
this blizzard would go before it had
spent itself.
An Easter storm had been pre-
dicted in the papers, but one never
worries until the signs in the papers
have been transferred to the signs
in the sky.
Gentle spring had so nearly come
that the snow on the streets and
sidewalks was melting so rapidly that
little rivers were flowing down the
streets and little ponds of water
were standing everywhere, soon to
evaporate or be absorbed, so that
the last signs of winter would have
soon disappeared.
All this melted snow was the more
quickly frozen, and now the country
looks like America must have look
ed during the glacial yeriod. In
walking on ice one is apt to slip and
fall or to step through some place
where it is not solidly frozen.
I actually measured some icicles
that were suspended from the outer
window of our warm living room
and one proved to be seventeen in
ches long, and five inches around,
and this was but the continuation of
the sheet of ice which covered the
window itself.
And this was the cool reception
that Easter got in northern Mime
sofa. a menace to spring hats and
spring gowns.
One has to look long and hard at
the calendar and say to himself that
| it is really March in order not to be
thinking that it is December OF
January.
Appearances are deceitful, and
there is certainly nothing in a name,
flor one can never tell whether April
will really bring warm showers OF
whether May will bring flowers. But
anyway, "hope springs eternal in the
human breast" so that I am trusting
to see at least one blade of green
grass before I leave in June.
They are saying that March did
come in like lamb, but is going out
like lion.
FLORENCE MINIS.
Aurora, Mimi, March %, 1921.