Show ONE Hb hundres summer a poetical season people of hot prepared for it cut our gaikens Gai dens and garments arc un meet the rising thermometer with a tranquil mind by harriet prescott oriL almost all the poetry of our litera tur centers about the scenes of summer and the summers neat we picture life in cool courts with splashing fountains and abundant fruit and flowers the alte ot hot countries iea where the sun casts ills burning arrows out aide as the top of things to be desired and we arc really never happier than wo are in that outdoor out door weather and our own parallel at spa side or in the country since the life being tho outdoor out door one we can make ourselves comfortable in shade and la breeze and lie back as sure of welfare as the rose itself but in town all that Is otherwise and when the hot weather in all its fervor id upon us there we can find no in it we are somewhat fortified in our sta to of feeling hy remembering that shakespeare loved the hot weather no better than we do for he spoke of it summers heat and with more hostility as summers scalding heat terms that make us feel that nettle baah and nervous irritability were features ct ills dog days as of ours this day he says grows wondrous not some airy devil hovers in the sky dut shakespeare alone could combine oom bine the poetry and the prose of it for our tart we grumbled abbout the cold when the chin winds blew winds which it Is a luxury to remember and now we grum ible about the warmth and in no poetic terms no one ever reports any complaints about the heat from the dwellers of the desert or of ithe cities of the tar cusit where it Is a furnace blast compared ito most of that known to our latitudes and even in our own southern country the people seem to love their summer weather the fact is however that ain the desert in damascus in the soudan athey know nothing better it 1 the atmosphere of alte to them and they are prepared for it with their well adjusted dress their narrow shade throwing streets their open houses their wide and all surrounding galler losand their dally beblis but with us the streets are epa olous and the sun has full scope and power and we need be chary of the covered gallery or watch excludes he sun for in winter it is as necessary to our comfort as in summer it Is a feature of our discomfort the only recourse Is to shady gardens full of flying arad stinging things or to awnings tor which every ones purse is not equal and moreover with us the heat comes suddenly and unexpectedly and overcomes like an enemy springing from ambush all the relief we find is in innumerable baths in sherbets sher bets and other chall viands in reading accounts of arctic adventure and disbelieving them while we are of the opinion that the mr tudor whose sulp first carried ice to the tropic deserves a monument we agree then with francis bacon when he said that under stress of heat anybody and why not ours is perpetually quivering striving and struggling and irritated by repercussion whence springs the fury of fire and heat and it we know that sir biniam winiam thomson has reported a tendency in the universe to convert all things into heat and eo stop all physical phenomena we feel when the thermometer is in the nineties that that day is near stories then that we have read of women who walk about ameir business in in huge ovens heated to a tremendous point recur to us n order that we may express our conviction of their falsehood yot we might ask ourselves it this rich and full heat Is not after all something very good for us to have when we see all nature expanding in it the grass billowing the corn glittering with flinty sparkles growing in the night and like an army with the trees exuding their most aromatic gums arion we see that wherever the beat is mighty then the earth Is beautiful we may well won dar it ibis strengthening and expanding power is not as enriching to us also as it is to any great luxuriating in the sun expelling our impurities at every pore and ripening all our forces still thare are many processes of nature good us in the long run tike the cutting of our teeth tor instance abol disagreeable in the present experience peri ence and there is only one way I 1 to meet them and not suffer from them and that Is to recognize that it Is perfectly idle ito rebel against the powers that rule the law of gravitation tho law of the auns and since no bull will overthrow it to reconcile ourselves to our comet going about with a constant sense 0 wrong and recognition of with a spirit of vexation and coin plaint Is only making for oura elve a constant increase ot heat and cef and nervous excitement and doubling all our trouble to meet fate with a level mind whether it Is a question 0 fervent cheat or of more serious concern is the best defense wo can have it set us froe to think of other ahinga than the present annoyance no yance and giving fresh inter KS makes us forget even that we aro warm |