Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWEL

home owner is able to put himself In
this frame of mind, he will find that
Winter has lost one OF its greatest
sources of annoyance.
What Is more enjoyable. after all, on
q cold morning than to Kick into ones
slippers and bathrobe and gnllup down
to the basement to open up tile fur"
mace? 1t Is sheer pleasure, nothing
less to peer into the feed door and her
that the Goals are burning through
lively and free. with every evidence Of
desiring TO do their duty.
The ash-pit door Is raised. The drnfl
opened and In few minutes there n n
businesSike roar issuing from The
throat of the iron monster Onr
knows that upstairs the radiators are
gradually but surely getting warmer
and warmer.
This is one OF the Joys of Winter.
There has been enough singing about
the biting, bracing air and the color
OF Autumn leaves. That IL all true,
but there are other Joys less constantly
sung. They deserve It none the less.
Tor more living Is done indoors IN Win
ter than outdoors.
Autumn and Winter intensity life
through the very restriction OF IT. to
rooms. In Summer one felt that the
whole city was his room. He went In
and out doors without thought of tenn
perature, except when it rose to an
unprecedented degree.
When Winter comes however, and
doors are shut and windows down, the
rooms OF a house become the bound
aries OF Kingdom that is in essence
lmltleSS, but which in reality is often
extremely circumSCribed.
The Kingdom of the mind has the
curious property Of expanding and con-
tiactlng at any and all Seasons Of the
year In Winter 1t expands to meet the
physical limits OF the indoors.
there Is a wild mood In Summer
most noticeable at the -seashOre This
meItS away with the cold OF Winter,
thus reversing the usual physical char
actcrlStlcS OF substances in the presence
OF lowered temperatures
Above all, Winter puts every one and
everything in its right place The ex-
pansive moods of the warm days evapo :
rate with the first touch of cold,
Romance thriVes in a warm tempera-
ture. When Winter puts a crimp in
flowing and towering minds the net
take its proper place in the personal
horizon.
To put ones mental horizon in order
is one of the outstanding featS which
may be attributed to Winter. Then one
thinks what a fool one has made out of
himself, and mutely resolves not to do 1t
again.
Clearing the horizon of cobwebs which
clutter 1t up comes about naturally in
Winter, as the result of the increased
amount of time which one has to give
to meditation. Not every one, of course.
can do more heavy thinking in the cold
season than during the warm, but such
man or woman probably is the eX-
Ception.
When Winter drives us to our fire.
sides we are in position to think, not
to be driven hither and thither by the
Whim OF every enhancing sight and
sound which comes along.
In Winter one retireS into ones self
very good place to go. unless one hap
pens to be of the temperament which
hates that very action. In such a case
there is no ground for argument. Every
one must live his life to suit himself. II
he feels that introSpection is too COM
pliCated, that is distinctly his business,
and we would have no quarrel with
him.
AS for us, Winter not only increases
our coal bill land frees us from the ice
bid, but in a larger sense increases our
respect for ourself, and sets us free from
the foolishness of Summer Surely that
Is enough for anV onp season In d0