Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Ths Seascns In Iceland. [ARTICLE]

Ths Seascns In Iceland.

The Icelanders divide the year Imu the light and dark seasons. It Is ■ strange sensation to a foreigner wlro g(M*s to the fur North between tiro months of March ami August to And that he is beyond the region of night. To one accustomed to wait for retiring; until shut in by the darkness, the comHuttons light soon becomes wcarlsomr. With the sun alsive the horizon and a singularly rare atmosphere an evening walk may lie unconsciously .-untinned until midnight, and an InierrwIng book may cause one to forget tiro hours for sleep until the nuild enterg the room with the morning coffee. After a few days of this activity, nutiira begins to assert her claims, and instead of the atm dial, the watch Is entrusted wit It nocturnal registration. A nap in the middle of the day may Im* restful and pleasant, but regularly to retire in brottd daylight seems unnatural. During June and a pan of July the sun does not set. though for a few hours about midnight it is visible only from the mountain tops, while In the valleys Is seen all the glories .if a regular sunset, and no Italian sky ea» boast of greater splendor. At times ths colors are Intensified, as if each would claim by contrast the richest bounty; then by hands invisible the scene Im shifted, until all is enveloped in a culiulovelinesH, betokening the rest and harmony of an unseen world.