Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07
THE EVENING STORY
One of World Famous Works of Fiction.

densation means clouds. We viii flnd
hereafter q whole body Of legends
about the stealing Of the clouds and
their restoration.
The veil thickens. The suns rays are
shut out. It grows colder; more con-
densation follows. The heavens darkerl.
Louder and louder bellows the thunder.
We shall see the hghtninss represented
In myth after myth, as the arrows Of
the rescuing- demi-god who caves the
world. The heat has carried up, per-
haps, one-fourth Of all the water Of
the world into the air. Now Il is
condensed into clouds.
We know how an ordinary storm
darkens the heavens. In this case &c
Il black night. A pail Of denss cloud.
many miles In thickness, enfolds the
earth. No sun, no moon, no stars, can
be seen. Darkness Is on the face Of
the deep" Day has ceased to be. Men
stumble against each other. The over
loaded atmosphere begins TO discharge
itself. The great work of restoring the
waters Of the ocean TO the ocean be-
gins
It grows colder colder-coider. The
pouring rain turns into snow and set
ties on all the uplands and North
countries: snow falls on snow; gigantic
snow beds are formed. which gradually
SOuOlIy lIlGO ICE. WILING IkO IA1A6sIuCk
ice sheet deScends into the Mediters
ranean or the Gulf Of Mexico, glaciers
intrude into all the valleys and the
fora and fauna Of the temperate
regions become Arctic-that Is 70 say,
only those varieties Of plants and AMI
mails survive in those regions that are
able TO stand the cold, and these we
now call Arctic.
In the midst Of this darkness and
cold and snow the remnants Of poor
humanity wander over the face Of the
deSolated world, stumbling, aweStrlck,
but filled with an Unsuitable hunger
bark OF the few trees that have per-.
ished. and even upon one another.
Steadily, steadily. steadly-for days.
weeks, months, years-the rains and
snow fall, and as the clouds are drained
they become thinner and thinner and
the light increases.
It has now grown 50 light that the
wanderers can mark the difference be-
tween night and day. And the eve
ming and the morning were the frst
day" -
Day by day It grows lighter ana
warmer; the ptled-up snow begins Ia
melt. 1t Is an age Of tremendous
floods. All the low-lying parts of the
continents are covered with water.
Brooks become mighty rivers, ana
rivers are floods; the drift debris is
cut into by the waters, rearranged,
piled up in what Is called the strait
fed, secondary drift. Enormous river
valleys are cut out Of the gravel and
clay.
The seeds and roots Of trees ana
grasses, uncovered by the rushing tor
rents and catching the increasing
warmth, begin to put forth green
leaves. The sad and parti-cOlored
earth, covered with white, red or blue
clays and grsvels, once more wears Q
fringe OF green.
The light increases The warmth
lifts up part of the water already cast
down and the outflow of the steamings
ice fields and pours it down again IN
prodigious floods. 1t IS an age Of
storms. +.
The people who have escaped gather
together. They know the sun Is coming
back. They know this tlesolation d to
pass away. They build great fires and
make human sacrifices to bring back
the sun. They point and guess where
he will appear. for they haze lost ali &
knowledge Of the cardinal points.
At last the great, the godlike, the
respondent luminary breaks through
the clouds and looks again upon the
wrecked earth.