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Show HOW TO FORETELL FINE WEATHER "11 you want fine weather, look for fineweather signs. Hero are some of the most reliable for they are based upon scientific facts. "When the sun sets in a sea of gory, that is, when the sunset sky Is red, you may except clear weather on the following day "At night, when the moon Is clear and shows clear edges with no halo or ring of mist surrounding it, there is little dangor of rain. "When the wind blows steadily from the west, the weather will continue fair; it very rarely rains In our eastern east-ern States with the wind in the west. "Watch the smoke from a chimney or from your camp-fire it Is a good barometer. If the smoko rises high, it means clear weather. The smoke will also show you from which direction direc-tion tho wind Is blowing; so will a flag on an upright flagstaff. "A gray early morning, not a heavy, cloudly one, promises a fair day. "A heavy dew at night is seldom followed by rain the next day Think of it this way and you will remember; wet feet, dry heAd. "If there are no clouds at the western west-ern horizon, you need not worry about othera. "Animals are said often to show 'by their actions what the weather will be, and there is reason In this. Some of them certainly have a knowledge of coming storms. We are told that spiders are especially sensitive to weather changes, and, when thev make new webs, tho weather will be fair; If they continue spinning during a shower; it will soon clear off." Adelia B. Beard, in the April St. Nicholas. |