Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — WHEN WINDOWS ARE OPENED. [ARTICLE]

WHEN WINDOWS ARE OPENED.

First Day We Wonder Where All the Nolle Was Daring the Winter. On the first day of having all the windows wide open one feels the bewilderment and fatigue of a country person newly arrived in town. The New York Evening Sun says the noises remind one so forcibly of the fact that one is living in the city. One had known it vaguely all winter, but never had the truth so obtruded itself before. Now one not only is conscious of the city being near, but horrified by having it fairly on top of one. The last pressure of grefariousness seems to have been reached. One almost stands in the middle of one’s own room, first on one foot and then on the other, taking it for granted that all the chairs were long since filled. Cars, running in every direction most of them runing back and forth over cross rails as though it were their special delight; horns blowing on the river; people singing different songs at different tempi; some one playing; dogs barking; voices wandering about by themselves; motor tires exploding, horns honking—an absurd number of things happening. One is forced to believe that all this racket has been pressing against one’s window panes all winter. It may have been what kept the glass so perpetually clouded. It is a great? surprise to know it has been just outside and one all the time happily unaware. One fairly feels one would have seen It on looking out the window, particularly that most determined singer. It is ridiculous to suppose that her voice has been orientating In the atmosphere without mussing it up a littie. Perhaps she has just moved in. Yet that still leaves a great deal of noise unaccounted for; more than you can combat or do anything but marvel over. All you have to say Is that from the eager way in which it rushed into the room when you flung the windom open there must have been an awful lot of sitting on the window sill just waiting for this opportunity.