Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — GOOD AS ANY BAROMETER [ARTICLE]

GOOD AS ANY BAROMETER

Observing Citizen Says He Knows Never-Failing Indication of When Weather Will Clear Up. "Where I live," said Mr. Jorgleby, “I , am pretty well shut-in.—l—can’t see 4he sky, and so I can’t by observation get much of a line on the weather, but on rainy days I do get, without looking, one tolerably certain Indication when the rain Is going to stop, the same being the whistling of boys passing in the street. "When. I hear the boys begin to whistle I know It will soon clear. I don’t pretend to understand exactly why this Is so, but I know it comes so nine times out of ten. “Of course, being out of doors, they may see signs that I can’t see, but I prefer to think that their whistling Is automatic, Involuntary, due to some still Invisible change, or Impending change, in the meteorological conditions. “In gloomy, settled, stormy weather nobody whistles, not even boys; but when brigliter weather comes everybody perks up, and my theory is that the boys, with their alert, keen youthful susceptibility to impressions, sense changes In the weather quicker than anybody else. “I have observed this many times and It Is a practically sure indication when on a rainy day you hear boys passing along the street whistling you may be reasonably certain that It Is going to clear up.”