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Show "Old-Fashioned" Winter Classed as Illusion Records kept by the United States weather bureau indicate that there has been no appreciable permanent change In the weather of the northern north-ern hemisphere during the last fifty or sixty years. Weather records show that the winters are as cold on the average as they were half a century ago. The "old-fashioned" severe winter win-ter that elderly people are fond of telling about Is a psychological illusion. illu-sion. Winters seemed colder to the pioneers because they were not as well protected as people are now. The advance of civilization has relieved the Inhabitants of this country from many of the hards-hips formerly suffered suf-fered because of cold weather. Also, the difference between the child and adult mind has undoubtedly contributed contrib-uted considerably to the Illusion. Things seen through the eyes of childhood child-hood are likely to bave a distorted appearance. ap-pearance. It is human nature for people peo-ple in their reminiscences to exaggerate exag-gerate past events, especially the hardships hard-ships of early life. |