Evening star., 1944-01-27
This and That
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1peu.

By Charles E. TraceUeH.
While examining a 10-cent copy Of
Mother Goose" the other day, we no.
ticed how many references there were
IN 1t concerning weather.
You have to get hold of a tolerably
complete edition of the old book of
rhymes, because some of the fancier
editions leave out many of the poems.
Weather, Of course, is just as inter-
esting today as it was when Mother
Goose, whoever she was, wrote the
jingles which have been famous ever
since.
There Is one school Of thought about
them which holds that they were DO
Htical In character. However that NAV
be, it need not bother us today. We
have politics enough now for several
Mothers Goose
Weather is something which the city
man usually would like to forget.
He has done a remarkably good Job,
all things considered, of doing just this
He has an insulated house and central
heating. The fact that his house is
huddled with great many other houses
tends to keep them all warm. In fact,
the official temperature taken in the
city is always from 4 to degrees
warmer than in the suburbs and from
10 to Is degrees higher than tempera-
lures on outlying farms
The city man finds his streets and
sidewalks dry days before those of his
suburban cousins. He sometimes Won
ders when he sees rubber overshoes on
his dry pavement.
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One must move into the suburbs to
come into true appreciation of
weather, as such.
There 1t is discovered that "the
weather" Is something In its own right
not just a subject for occasional con-
versation. The newcomer to the sub
urban scene finds himself buying a
thermometer the first thing. He may
purchase a barometer or weatherglass.
One thing is certain, he will add to his
stock OF rubbers and galoshes. He will
see to 1t that his raincoats and umbrellas
are kept in good shape.
He will find in time that the weather
Is, just as much part of his life as
eating and that it has an interest all
OF its own. When he starts gardening,
especially If he raises vegetables and
considers himself Victory gardener,
so-called, he will realize at last that
weather Is distinctly more than q small
square box In the upper left-hand cor
ner OF the first page of his fayorite
newspaper.
This is a good thing.
We are wrapped in weather our whole
life long. The fact that we are about
30 per cent water ourselves really ought
to give us fellow feeling with rain.
Even though snow is nuisance 1t Is
part OF weather and as such ought to
earn our interest and commendation
1t is said to be good for grass, although
perhaps very few householders will get
out and sprinkle grass seed on it, as
some experts advise.
Sunshine, winds, hail, thunderstorms
these and other weather manifesto
tions are part of our very being, and of
everybody elses very being, whether we
all realize 1t or not. It Is best to realize
1t. To object to talking about the
weather, as some people do, is an edd
thing. The weather as it comes to us
out of infinity is as much a part Of us
as our own breathing, and from the
same invisible sources.
Let us realize the grandeur Of weather.
Men who 60 aloft in flying ships know
1T. We who are earthbound have to use
our imagination, but this is not hard
to do in face of a snowstorm or a
thunderstorm.
Weather is something more than Just
topic to argue about. 1t is an every
day matter possessing aspects Of the
marvellous.
Even the smallest rain that falls will
keep alive in us the sense of the mar
velous II we will let it. We do not always
need rainbow in the sky. A beautiful
snowfall, no doubt touched here and
there with CRIME, tells US as much about
who We are and where we came from
ana where We are going q We shall
ever know.