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Show m RAINING SO HARD HERE'S NOTHING DRY IN SALT LAKE BUT SUNDAYS Cher up. Mar?'. Don't be alining, sighing. True, no rainbow's In the sky; Bu the walks Will aoon be drying, drying. For the days are hound to fly. Don't be fretting ! In thla wetting, wetting. t There's a chance to swim, vou know; Do not pine, ; Thla la fine If you want to learn to row. (BY ZTJLA NUVTTT.) J The grand annual appearance of the ground-hog has come and gone, and we i day ajj sing, "Cheer Mary," even I If the rain Is sluicing down In buckeU-fuL buckeU-fuL for 'nary a shadow did he see. Only i six months' more winter! Bless that , little furry harbinger, and may he live i to continue harbengering for years to : come! "Rain or snow today and tomorrow" is the cheering prediction that comes from the bureau on the sixth floor of the Dooly block, where they manufacture manufac-ture weather. This, after two nights I and a day of steady downpour. Great lakes of "water make crossings dangerous danger-ous to any one who has not a life-preserver, life-preserver, the streets have become i deadly auagmires. and the street car , traffic threatens to come to an untimely un-timely end at anv moment. Slipperv tracks threw two Sugar House cars off the tracks last evening, and the soft ground of the Wandamere lioe made it almost impossible for the cars to reach the terminus. Nor is Salt Lake City alone in its suffering from freakish weather. It is raining nard in California and snowing I in Spokane, while a blizzard is raging in Montana, where the suffering is in- i tenaified bv the cold, the mercury hav- ing reached 42 degrees below zero. In ; South Dakota the thermometer regis- j tered 39 degrees below all day, and a I l snowstorm is raging along the eastern Rockies. In view of the crisis now threatening Salt Lake City from rain, it has been suggested that the city authorities issue is-sue a pronunciamento warning pedestrians pedes-trians not to venture over any street crossing unless wearing waders and carrying life-preservers. They may also al-so be required to have their names and addresses plainly written on cards somewhere about them for purposes of identification if they should be lost in the mud. That swimming classes be formed at once to practice daily in the lakes where the street car tracks were he-fore he-fore being submerged is to be recommended. recom-mended. This will be done because the ditches on each street are fast becom-1 becom-1 ing raging torrents and threatening the lives ot all wavfarers who cannot swim. Umbrellas on Hats. The latest spring models in hats displayed dis-played in the fashionable shops show a tiny umbrella tucked away amid the flowers in the top of each "creation," wihich may be raised when out of doors, and which when furled, forms a charming charm-ing part of the hat's dornment s. The newest importations in neckties show oilcloth models which may be worn out of doors with impunitv. Since the rainy season set in, celluloid collars have come into almost universal use, as the conventional linen affairs wilt in a few moments. "I'mbrella" parties have becohe suddenly fashionable, and a prominent citizens who have ordered new IP07 runabouts have changed the order for the latest thing in gondolas, and will soon be sen plowing the waves on Msin stre t. Nautical terms have hepn adopted bv the smart set. and ''ship ahov'' is The popular greeting. "Shivr mv timbers'' and ''heave to larboard" are frequently heard in polite po-lite society, and one leader, noted for being up to date, has adopted a nauti call roll in his step. Cars on Flat Boats. The street cars mav soon be put upon flat boats and navigate all the principal streets of the cifv. A passenger mav flag the car bv firing a signal of distress dis-tress from the street corner. whr. a polite po-lite conductor in a 'living suit will put off and rarrv the passt-r.gor ever to the tram. There i much talk among (,n terprising capitalist of establishing a j pneumatic tube vstc-m throughout the cifv wherebv people mav be delivered dry at anv point, but heavilv watered stock may result in the project tailing through. It' the rain continues, as Dr. Hvatf threatens it will for man-., manv das, there will be nothing drv in Salt Lake 'if v but the Sundays. |