Show the weather it is common commonplace pl a ce to ta talk ak odthe of the weather because the weather is 13 ft a thing of such an unmistakably settled character that it affords little it tl e or r no chance for the spice of aso conversation n v e arso a namely contradiction the tile weather that we nye are enjoying this year is however of steell demoralized character it indulges in such wild freaks of fancy and incongruous inconsistencies that we cannot let lot it pass without a word to protest and rebuke not that we hope to make an impression upon it or to alter the direction of tho the wind or the stand of the thermometer but we can at least give vent to our outraged feelings this ought to be spring with the bland breezes of zephyr the crystalline blue of a vernal firmament the verdurous mantle of vegetation en nature the birds twit twittering teri in leafy trees and budding b u adding branches bra nelies and what have we lve blustery winds sweeping the denuded landscape a dull monotonous leaden sky overhead snow covering the ground and the coal bills increasing in inverse ratio to the comfort of the paterfamilias paterfamilias pater IV who or what is to blame is difficult to tell it can hardly bo be deloirs doing even the wicked star routers would shrink before such malice and the tho edmunds billian bill can hardly be expected to reach into the upper regions then we must fall back on the sun spots whose maximum year this is or maybe the perihelia peri per helia ibelia are concocting concoct ing the atmospheric mo atrocities or those erratic celestial vagabonds the co comets mets are at the tile bottom of the mischief whoever it be we hope they will let up send the coal dealer to a back seat give the spring poets a fair chance and the dear cattle fresh pasturage |