San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-09
SUNSHINE SEEKERS

Let us confer together, which is ar
admirable way OF getting at the root Of
matter. Here in San Antonio are a
number of tourists, welcome visitors
and among them some who claim they
have right to complain. Oh yes, they
like this and that we'll enough. and the
people are friendly and cordial. But
what do you suppose could be the mat
ter? 1t is the climate. They say the
climate is to blame.
Over at tourist headquarters they tell
the story of a man who has kept sort
OF Domesday Book OF the weather. with
black marks for cloudy days, black.
blacker. blacklist when it rains. He has
painted the whole winter in tones of
gray and ebony and when the sun shines
and the sky is blue, he closes his eyes
and in darkness sees his favorite color
still. There are other groups here and
there who expect marvels in the way of
sunlight and warmth and air. On a
dazzling day with a Tuscan sky, when
the sunlight glints and the air is heady
like a thing we used to call wine, they
complain that it is "too cool' or "too
warm and refuse to enjoy what might
be enjoyed i'll a pessimistic fear that
tomorrow it might rain"
There is nothing to say to people of
that type. Digging into weather re-
ports, compiling the actual number of
days OF sunshine, making comparative
lists of temperature would have no eff
feet upon them. II they have forgotten
the good days and have put all the en-
pi1asis upon the bad ones. they would
merely dismiss facts and figures with
wave of the hand. 1t would do little
good to remind them that there had been
but few days they could not play golf
or go about, that a temperature drop
was merely exhilarating, that few rainy
days now and again gave a certain
amount of variety to what might have
been monotonous shining OF the SUM-
After ALL. they are scarcely to blame
They leave home, where the snow is
several feet deep, where the temperature
knocks down Familiarity to the zero line.
They spend hard earned money, perhaps,
with the expectation of ascending straight
into a sort of climatic paradise. This
destroys their sense of proportion en-
tirely. A day that would be considered
a fine day under ordinary circumstances
and would be grasped as an opportunity
to get out and get around "back home"
is howled down as not coming up to this
imaginary standard of perfection that eX-
lists nowhere but in their own minds.
AS a matter of fact, there is no perfect
weather anywhere. nor could even as
few as six people agree upon what con
sttutes perfection in weather or in any,
thing else. The sun has got to shine
and the rain to fall and the wind to
blow. Sometimes it does more of one
than the other, for these matters cannot
be turned off and on at will. SO claim
for good weather and sunshine made by
the people of San Antonio is Just claim
based on weather reports extending over
a period OF twenty odd years. with varia- |
tons expected in the natural course of
meteorological change.
Those who are hunting for a climatic |
paradise, the projected creation of their
own desires, would do we'll to realize /
that successful jewellers in paradise have
certain amount of Sunshine in their |
souls" |