Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-27

The return of warm weather was
greeted with inaudible cheers by thou
sands of persons who like it hot.
No doubt there is some discomfort
attending hot weather, but 1t is mis-
take to regard life always from the
standpoint of comforts and discomforts.
A pig in trough Is perfectly COM
Portable, but who would want to be
pig?
Even the ancient philosophers who
based their attitude toward life on the
negation of evil, and regarded lack OF
pain as heaven, held to no such animal
ism.
There are degrees in both pain and
discomfort, SO that the former often
becomes the latter, and the latter the
former
The sharp line between pain and dis
comfort is never drawn. A small dis
comfort can give a man OF acute
sensibilities more pain than severed
leg, whereas tough guy" will be able
to stand any amount of pain better.
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Hot weather has its good points, let
advocates of Winter say what they
please.
upon that man who declares that he
prefers the dark meat of turkey, so one
may feel that abuse of hot weather Is
false
Every one likes the white meat of
turkey best, of course! 1t is not natural
to prefer the dark meat. Not even an
orator could convince US otherwise.
Suppose the white meat is dry, 1t has
by far the best taste. Suppose the DARK
meat is juicier, what OF 1t?
There is a similar false note in the
war cries of those who perpetually growi
about the hot weather, who go around
in July and August pining for zero
weather, as If 1t would not come 1ast
enough, anyway.
The plain truth is that the National
Capital experienced no warm Weatner
at all until the middle OF June. Many
furnaces were running during the nisI
two weeks of that month. Those VINO
let their fires go out suffered from the
chill which comes to houses when the
outside temperature is around ana De-
low 10 degrees in the early morning. =.
Even despite the annual rapping OF
those who delight in picturing wash
ington as a hot city, there has been
comparatively little really warm Weatn-
er here to date.
Mostly the nights have been cool, ano
when one is able to sleep well the not
test days may be stood with comparative
comfort. After all, most Of the mouth
ings about how hot this city Is come
from New Workers. They love to come
here for a day or SO, let their feet sink
in an asphalt street, and then go back
to the greatest city in the world and
talk about frying hot eggs on the corner
of Fifteenth street and New York
avenue.
To listen to some Of the blah from
the outside Planners of our National
Capital, one might think that eggs were
lined up all along the downtown curbs,
waiting and praying for the great sun
to fry them gratis.
Now we have searched Washington
carefully on some of the hottest days,
and have yet to see an egg frying on
asphalt. Well bred eggs prefer skillets.
Cooking, to an egg. is an indoor, not
an outdoor sport. The egg knows moth
ing of modern "suntan," but takes life
as he finds it.
And in doing so the egg points a
distinct moral to all restless, perturbed
and perturbing people who are unwill-
ing to take the weather as 1t comes.
Hot weather has many compensations
What is pleasanter than house with
all the windows open?