Evening star., 1931-11-25

Roses. snapdragons and petuniaS
from the garden for the Thanksgiving
table!
That is something to be thankful for,
indeed, from the amateur gardener
standpoint.
1t is a rare season which remains SO
warm that these classic posies are gwen
q new lease on life at this time OF year,
and bloom so well that few specimens
remain to be brought indoors.
The gardener does not I'LL huge
baskets. of course; If there are enough
to trick out a simple bowl for the table
centerpiece, he is fortunate.
The flowers have felt the call OF
Spring, however.
Even the lilacs, behind the garage,
have sent forth leaf buds. :.
These buds, as II suspicious, as II
knowing that this is Thanksgiving nos
Easter, are very tiny affairs, and one
must look closely for them.
Even when discovered. they are so
rudimentary that the gardener cannot
trust his eyes, but insists on calling on
others to see If they see what ne sees.
It is an exceptional season. let the
Weather Bureau say what 1t pleases.
Usually the officials are entirely out
of sympathy with any one who dareS
to assert that the weather is changing.
Almost every nature lover says that
at some time or other Invariably tine
oflcials say there is nothing 10 sucn
belief. and haul out their statistics, kept
since the year 1874, or whenever 1t was,
to prove ruthlessly that past years have
seen perfectly similar weather.
This year the Weather Bureau Is
slightly stumped. The accumulated
excess of temperature Is outstanding
this time.
There is no blinking It.
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Those of us who have no records run
ming back to before we were born new
ertheless know that this exceptional Fan
is not the usual thing.
Indian Summer, a phrase often used,
explains little or nothing. Few In
dians, one may surmise, ever saw such
a Springlike November, and this holds.
whether Western blizzards shall have
brought cold to Washington on Tnanks-
giving day or not.
What days-f you liked theml We
will confess that we did not. although
we shrink from cold, and commonly IKE
our indoor temperature to be around "a
TO 76 degrees. What q lot OF ballyhoo
there is about the perfect indoor tenn
perature. to be sure!
Seventy degrees is the correct indoor
temperature" insist the theoreticaI
guides of mankind, forgetting that IN
Summer an indoor temperature OF 70
to rs degrees is regarded by all and
sundry aS eminently comfortable,
thank you.
Then why not rs degree in Winter
Because 1t Is too dry, comes the ready
answer. All, yesl But last week, Win
radiators cold and windows open. many
a home thermometer showed ~ degrees
and a humidity reading, at the same
time, would have showed 90 degrees, an
almost perfect combination. d.
The point Is that no one complained
of the heat In the least. Their living
rooms were theoretically too warm
but actually Just right.
Is it not silly, in this day and age OF
central heating, to go along holding up
the perfect temperature" Wnicn was
nerfect for an age which knew only
home heating by individual flreplaces?
And when everybody wore heavy un-
derclothes?
one would think there were some
heayen-given perfection about 10 de-
Qrees which rendered 1t divine, when all
its insistence shows is the reluctance
of the average mind, especially pede-
gogical, to change an opinion, even
when required to do 80 by changed con-
ditions.
Even he who prefers warmth to cold
vet may hesitate to put the sanction OF