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Show gets cold it stays cold. Eleven EbnTBs winter and one month late in the fall, one admirer has defined it. Here on the other hand we never know one day what we are going to be up against . the next. Change, variety, the unexpected, no monotony ! As they say out In California no matter what may happen "That's what I like about it." In England It rains every day; In Spain it never rains. In California there is eternal sunshine, . and In Alaska twelve months of winter. Here we have all varieties of weather within a week. I like it. ((c). 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) OUR CLIMATE B THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. IT WAS raining when I went to i sleep at night and raining still when I waked in the morning a gentle gen-tle but persistent rain that pattered on the windows and soothed me into a sound sleep like distant music. It , gave me a quiet, peaceful feeling. It was like taking a sedative for jangling jan-gling nerves I knew that I should enjoy going out in ;t and. feeling the : soft mist upon my face. Going out into a rain never gives me c :ills or a cold or a feeling of injustice or irritation. irri-tation. I like it. I knew, however, that if I should by chance . meet Mrs. Griswold she comes from Florida, where I almost froze to death last Christmas because I had somewhere gotten the idea that Florida has a warm climate, and had worn light clothing when I went down she would begin: "What terrible weather you have here ! Does it do nothing else but 'rain? It seems to me we haven't had a day of sunshine since I struck this spot." I tell her that she should take up her residence in central Spain where for centuries they have developed a system of dry farming; where the sun shines seven days in the week and the air is constantly full of thick yellow yel-low dust She would like it there I know. There Is nothing else with which I am familiar that people are so sensitive sensi-tive to as the weather, and nothing of "which they so thoroughly approve as the climate with which they were early in life familiar. Mrs. Jenkins was born and brought up in Texas. Unless you are thrashing thrash-ing about in the Gulf of Mexico you will - find the climate of Texas comfortably com-fortably warm during the summer months in fact hot. We had a few warm days In Septemberthis Sep-temberthis is a locality In which corn Is one of the staple products and warm weather in September is e?sential to the proper ripening of the corn pleasant days I . thought them, for the nights were cool. Mrs. Jenkins nearly suffocated. . She had seldom gone through anything so try-! try-! in.g. This climate of ours she simply ' cannot got used to. "Now in Minnesota," Mrs. Smith tells us, "we have wonderful winters win-ters !" i 1 am sure it must be true for I ! came closer to freezing to death dur-j dur-j ins a short visit to Dulutl) one sum- mer than at any other time in my I i f f. Slio goes on to say thnt when It |