Evening star., 1937-02-16

, a thing or two about the weather here
abouts, and we think we do, having
studied it for many years and having
been among the boldest announcers, over
the years, of the belief that the weather,
at least hereabouts, was changing
mo-" said the experts, in most en-
| phatic tones, but during the past year
they have changed their tune and have
| let the discerning understand that per-
| haps the weather may be changing after
all.
Well, we knew it all the time, and the
| curious deliver into the past, in times to
| come, if he goes through these columns
| for the IA years prior to 1897 will find
| the strangeness of the weather a con-
Stantly recurring theme.
It was a theme song, the weather, be-
cause any one interested in a garden,
| however small, must keep a wary eye
| on the state of the heavens, and is glad
| to do so, because the succession of rainy
and dry days means so much to his
| plants.
So natural interests always bring in
! more natural interests. 1t is impossible
| to buy a radio set, and listen to the
| broadcasters, without becoming inter
eSted in the artists. 1t is the same with
books, the same with the movies, with
| sports, with wars, with all the manifold
activities of the human critter, in all his
| Nationwide settings.
| Weather is a theme song with those
who love the garden and all the living
| things, plant and animal, which thrive
| in gardens.
| The humbleSt woman in her flower
border turning the earth with the best
of implements, kitchen fork, knows
| more about the weather, sometimes, than
| all the experts. She is not perpleXed by
| knowledge far off. All she has to do is
use her eyes and her common sense,
one almost as important as the other, for
he who tries to forecast the weather
without using large amount of the
latter will find prediction hazardous.
What saves the average prognosticator
| is that there is nothing which the aver
age mind recalls so hazily as what is
| known as "the weather" Every storm
| strikes the average observer as the worst
| possible storm. Every time the day
! grows cold, the average man or woman
| thinks it colder than ever before. The
| truth is that the mind is not made to
! keep well in mind the exact differences
between storms and storms. over the
years. In dealing with weather and its
| changes We are as the man trying to
write about music, one art. in terms OF
another art. literature. That is why
good writing about music is so seldom
met That is why accurate weather recol-
lection is even more rare.
Fortunately, each Spring makes us
forget those of yeSteryear
The robin in the yard whether he
shows up in February or March, seems
larger and more handsome than any We
ever saw.
| This is Spring in the heart.
You have it or you haven't. There is
no halfway about it.
| Those reading here have it, because
/ if they didn't they wouldn't be reading
! here.
If you have to have your attention
| called to the robins you haven't Spring
in your heart. You may have politics
or stocks and bonds, or automobiles, but
not Spring. You may be SNUG and
think the things you have are best, but
let lis be SNUG, in return. and think
the things We have the best. too. When
| we see the robins We are sure of it.