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Let Us Say, &quot; He is Beautiful&quot; 



LET us call it the line storm. It is true 

 that the autumnal equinox was three weeks 

 past when it began, but why should we 

 closely hug the letter when by freeing the spirit 

 we can count three weeks as nothing in comparison 

 with that attractive tradition ? It surely seems 

 reasonable that the sun, when it goes wintering 

 down South, should have more distinction than 

 the English gentry who go to the Riviera or the 

 happy American who changes to Florida or Ber 

 muda, his stay being longer and his importance 

 greater. So while a paragraph in the gossip col 

 umn will do for the one, a good, steady, old- 

 fashioned coast storm is much more appropriate 

 at the southing of the sun. The old rule was al 

 ways elastic, the 22d, &quot; there or thereabouts,&quot; 

 and three weeks later is thereabouts. We have 

 a scriptural warrant for the early and &quot;the latter 

 rains.&quot; 



The line storm was of rare beauty and consid- 

 erateness. It was one of those slow, deliberate 



