| Show rules rule for talking weather the english are as insensible to their weather as they are to a vast number ot of other things they talk of nothing else but there Is yet an artl arti fici aLty about the conversation that denotes it to be a standardized topic it if genuine feeling and emotion are expressed regarding it by an outsider they become suddenly touchy and what seemed neutral ground on which differing temperaments could meet with perfect amiability Is seen to be no better than a bank of bristling thistles whistles es it is here that the rules of the weather game are seen more clearly you may talk of it to the exclusion of everything else you are regarded as difficult it if you have an aversion to a certain amount of speech about it and yet there are certain things you must never say about it or it if you do you must say them as though in spite of everything you would not exchange it tor for any other weather 1 la the world and you would defend it with your last breath morida florida pier in harpers weekly |
