Show STUDENT LIFE have all to take the weather into account The success of many an undertaking hinges on the weather Many a battle has been won and lost because of the weather The weather interfered with Napoleon’s march and changed t lie history of Europe and of the world at large The Government of the United States spends a million dollars every year on the weather The public is warned when storms are brewing when frosts are incubating and many a vessel has been saved or lost witli all on board because of its heeding or not heeding the warnings sent out by the weather experts Many a farmer has saved his crop of fruit by heeding the frost warnings and taking measures accordingly A man looks at the weather bulletin in the morning and if it says: “Itain today” he leaves his best hat at home and puts on an old one A lady looks at the weather bulletin in the morning paper and if it says ‘‘probably rain” she leaves her new spring bonnet at home and stays home with it During the haying season the farmer sits up all night waiting for the publication of the weather bulletin and long before it is published he has prepared for the worst — has fed and harnessed his horses rousted the hired man out of bed and hied himself away to the hay-iieland many hours later when the bulletin says ‘‘probably fair today and tomorrow” the farmer won't let the hired man haul the lucerne back to the field Everybody takes the weather into account except the football player The football player never looks above the earth to see if it is going to rain or snow or thunder or blow a cyclone He doesn’t know there is such a thing as weather If he wades in mud up to his quarter or half back if he happens to be several feet horizontally under the alkali he is happy if only the pigskin is under him lie takes no more account of the weather than lie does of a broken limb if only he has a bone doctor in his vest pocket and his best girl in the grandstand Speaking of weather and football I watched a game a few weeks ago The doctor was kept very busy running with his medicines and the noise of the breaking of toe bones was drowned by the cheers of the spectators and when I d: 27 looked and saw that the young ladies were in the cheer and waving their handjoining kerchiefs as the doctor ran the tears that were welling in my eyes suddenly took flight The fact is that this would be a very sad world many tears would be shed but for the dear ladies The weather is a safe subject to speak about I am opposed to football I will tell you why It endangers the lives of heads of many families The other evening I was reading an account of a great football game in the east I had seated mjself comfortably in an easy chair w ith the evening paper to enjojr a quiet evening and had warned the and d youngsters to be good boys 1 had read that the game was a great one was a beautiful one It told about th6 first touchdown about the brilliant run of the left tackle or some such personage: howr on the 47 yard line the ball was fumbled: how a new man was hastily brought onto the field to take the place of the half back who had fractured his skull (Nothing however was said as to what became of the skull or its owner) A tremendous struggle was on and I fancied I could hear the shout of the spectators and then “down!” Then in a second the signals 21 17 43 3G 92 rang out on the air and two seconds afterward I shouted “down” tore myself out from under a pile of youngsters and easy chairs and hurried myself around about the house in search of a strap or birch or any old thing as fast as a dislocated knee would permit me and I finally succeeded in calling the game off I am opposed to football for the reason that it jeopardizes the lives of heads of families They haven’t always an expert doctor at hand If it keeps on the average family man in will have to don a sweater for an eved ear protectors and ning dress a limb preservers and then to be doubly safe betake himself to the attic and sit there until time has been called on the last half In the interest of domestic felicity in the interest of gentlemen who want to establish homes of their own I am against football tive-year-o- ld seven-year-ol- self-defen- nose-guar- se |