Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Gingerbread as a Barometer. [ARTICLE]

Gingerbread as a Barometer.

Tn the rural regions of Maine the people waste no money In buying barometers. They put a piece of gingerbread out at the door and know when the gingerbread Is motet and pliable that rain may be expected, and when It becomes crisp that a dry spell is coming. As for thermometers, they say; “What’s the good of them— *ny fool knows when lt*s hot or cold.”