The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty of Room
At The Top
BY
NANCY J. MIDGETT

This is indeed the WeaCner TOT
wearing vests, winter underwear,
layers of wool over all that and
shovelling in suet buildings, warm
meals and topping off the evening
just before bed with hot chocolate
or bread and milk, hot, with q
sprinkling of nutmeg.
just can't understand people
who go about complaining how
cold it is, yet still they insist on
wearing cotton clothing, have a
vast expanse Of bare flesh from
where their socks or hose end,
mostly around the knees towel
way up, and seem to drink nothing
much but few iced coca colas per
day and eat knick-knacks to go
with them. Some folks never will
learn that to keep well and feel
halfway warm in really cold
weather, at least two warm and
nourishing meals are needed per
day, and wool or silk and wool
somewhere down near the.skin sur
face, even with cotton on top is
going to keep you warmer than
cotton and rayon below and one
wool garment, Tapping wide open
in the breeze, on top.
Of course ! must admit that
even with all these precautions one
will, or may still, feel mighty cold
but do believe in taking all the
precautions possible first and yell
ing afterward. Some people find
cold weather really depressing
apart from feeling cold bodily and
that can make you feel cold inside,
which is worse. I had friend over
in England who worked in the
Pru with me, in fact for a while
she was my section leader. Come
windy weather, even when it was q
warm west wind,-our winter west
winds are mostly if not always
warm in England; it is the east
and northeast winds that come
across the channel from Europe
that make US cold,-she would be-
gin to wind up. The first day you
could see her getting tighter and
tighter inside and slightly sharp
on the reply when in conversation;
the second she would be white in
the face, tight in the teeth and
getting slightly CLASSY eyed and
if possible her work mates didn't
go to her for help in knotty prob
lens on sickness benefit payable
in the instance of pension being
paid, or anything else that needed
a little deep concentration; the
third day she usually had a
screaming headache and was Ii
able to bite, figuratively speaking,
and burst into tears.
AS soon as the wind stopped
blowing though she was as happy
as a daisy in a spring meadow
full of a lot more daisies, sunshine
and balmy breezes. She would be
full of vigor where she had dragged
before, smiles where the scowls
had been and ideas for being up
and doing. 1t wasn't that the wind
had been blowing ION her, that she
had been cold or anything like that:
it seemed that the very fact that
the wind blew seemed to do some
thing to her phycho even if she
couldn't hear it and when, as is
usual, she could hear it, she was
that much more worked up.
My brother-in-law used to insist
that being sea-sick was all in the
mind but / have been seasick three
times, each time on the east to
west hitch across the Atlantic and
each time in the same place ap-
proximately off the south west tip
of Ireland which would seem to
indicate that there was something
else to it than just mind, or I
would have been ill on the west
to east trips as we'll.
Actually l have become sick
when being sick was the farthest
thing from my mind. On the last
trip back l was feeling just dandy
and had made my way out of the