Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Wise in Their Day. [ARTICLE]

Wise in Their Day.

The people of Florida, being unprepared for frost and snow, have suffered much inconvenience from the unusually cold weather. Where the inhabitants expect severe extremes of weather they know how to meet them, and how to adapt themselves to circumstances. We at the North have every convenience for heating our houses, wo are provided with suitable clothing but those in Florida are prepared only for moderate weather. The Japanese have a good plan. They do not change from light to heavy clothing, or the reverse, but have several coats made, and wear one, two or three of them according to the temperature. They speak of the degrees of cold as “a one-coat day,” “a two-coat day,” and so 08.