Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — Gloomy Weather Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Gloomy Weather Thoughts.

The physical end mental structure of sen makes him peculiarly susceptible to ill changes in the weetber. On e fine, dear morning with a bracing atmosphere you will see him walk oat with an elastic reedier will than he otherwise were wont He greets his neighbor with a cordial “Good morning, my friend; film mornfng, this." If he is askedabout bua*Ehe quickly replies, “Good, very ; prospects for a large trade never r." .No matter what his employ memt is, on each a morning a man will look on the bright aide of Labor ia easier, health is better, social qualities more obvious, and everything about him bears the impress of his gooc| spirits. rs »' | On the other liand, darken the pictum with clouds. Draw from them their aqueous substance. Deluge the earth with K* >om and rain, and as soon as that am done a complete metamorphosis takes piece. The bright, happy and hopeful man of the bright and bapgy day is the dull and gloomy person of the dulK gloomy day. He condescends a gruff salute, if he greets yon at all, ana his business, if he lies any, is in a deplorable condition. He mopes along like a bad case of snail, and if you weren’t intimately acquainted with him, ypq would be impressedtliat liehad just returned from a second class funeral, where he constituted the chief mourner. Such is the effect produced upon many by gloomy weather. We are, as a people, too hopeful when sailing on a full tide, and too hopeless when we reach the shallows of life. We need to have invented s machine by which cheerfulness, sunshine and hopefulness can be bottled up and carried over when occasion needs, and another one so cork up a little gloom and a little incredulity for those who in fine weather are iuclined to “fly too high.” This emwi and high-spirited business ought to be more evenly balanced. We need a safety valve put on onr natures, regulated for fair and gloomy weather, or a gnage that would pop off when its owner carried more than a hundred pounds of sanguine ness or more than .the same amount of H bines.”