Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1927 — Page 16

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NEW CONDITIONS MAKE OS THINK WINTER MILDER Comfort And Conviences Os Today Take Sting Out Os Blizzards By James R. Connor. Jr. INS Staff Correspondent St. Louis.- Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the blustering winters and blistering summers that grandfather likes to recall when youngsters of today complain of unseasonable weather? They are with us still, but in this

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day of comfort and convenience wo don't t cognize them, according to Mon nose W. Hayes, meteorologist and head of the St. Louis weather bureau. Those wonderful winters of long ago with the merry tinkle of . sleighbells and snowdrifts “higher than your head my little man,” never existed except in the minds of the older generation in this part of the nation, Hayes declared and brings out cold but positive records to prove his 1 statement. Memories of zero weather lasting for long periods and of blissful hours spent skating upon deeply frozen ponds are correct but the impression that there' was more of that kind of winter cheer a generation or two gen- ' .nations past Is merely one of the delusions of the “good old days," Hayes asserts. Matter of Memory I The tendency to mistake the unI usual for the usual because the out i of the ordinary happening makes

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I r ,l ‘ l ' "”T i stronger Impression upon the mind Is ’ one reason why the extremes in weather of olden days are now bdfiev-l j ed to have, been usual those times, | ’ Hayes say ', but a’s othe childhood •i memories retain a better Impression ■ of huge snowdrifts than of ordinary ■ weather, ■ “Just as naturally the weeks in winter that passed by with no unusual i weather are now forgotten," Hayes says. "Likewise much of the fiction ; that clings to our minds about the old i fashioned snowy Thtinnsgiving and i the rest of the unusual weather can i i be attributed 1 believe to the fact that so much of our school literature ‘ln the good old days' came from chilly > New England. In this part of the . ’ country we have never had a snowy Thanksgiving but we believe It Just ! the same because we read about it liri McGuffey’s First Reader. "Changed living conditions also

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make ns think the wlnt.fs arc milder. Nowadays we go to work in comfort- < i able offices or bring the children to I school in heated street cars or unto- ( mobiles. Thirty or forty years ago we would have had to get up In the morning ami build files. No womb r we think winters arc not what they used to be." _ j Weather In Cyc'ea llay.s cites his records to show that the weather moves in cycles, ami that the present winter is in the midst of a mild period. The coldest year recently was the winter of 1917-1 S which seemed to end the cold cycle starting in 191-t. True there have b- en great changes of temperature over geological per- ; lods, but a guess as to their length | which comes close to 100,000 years is accurate figuring. Hayes stated. "Within the memorv of anyone living, winter now Is Just aS .old, as

snowy, or as mild as it always Ims been.” Hayes says and again brings out his irrefutable statistics. "So the next lime someone wants an argument over the "good old days, Hayes advises a look into the almanac. NOTICE I would thunk till those knowing; themselves indebted to me to cull and arrange sot settlement before Januarv Ht , 1,. E. SOMERS 302-7tx , n ,-r- -<) ,■■■■ ■ i. ■ i ■■*" —iUSE Limberlost Washing Powder

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Welsh Clergymen Meet To End (Jambling By Men (Joing To Church Cardiff, —(INS)- Young Welshmen are too fond of betting, ucct.rdlng tc i the clergy of Glamorgan. It is even tie--1 elured that, when walking piously to I church, they bet wttn one another whether or not certain hymns will be 1 i sung. Betting is not the only complaint Hint the Welsh clergy are making against thetr flocks. Irreverence is an-|

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