Weather Competitions 



catch his car. Indeed, I have often won 

 dered why newspapers publish this contem 

 poraneous weather news at all which 

 everybody must know as quickly as the 

 editors if not as a sort of local challenge, 

 a clarion cock-a-doodle-doo, as much as to 

 say : "Ho, all ye worthy contemporaries, and 

 inferior communities everywhere ! Observe 

 how we are freezing [or roasting]. Note 

 the extremity of our temperature, and be 

 duly humbled in spirit !" Americans, at any 

 rate, will undergo great discomfort and in 

 convenience, as regards the weather, in the 

 most cheerful and even jubilant frame of 

 mind, provided they can feel that they have 

 outdone, meteorologically, any rival com 

 munity. And this local weather pride is 

 fully as marked, I am sure, in cities as in 

 the country. 



But the country dweller, nevertheless, has 

 more to be proud of, in respect to weather, 

 than the city dweller. He can boast of ex- 

 tremer meteorological phenomena, and more 

 of them, than the metropolitan. And being 

 denied many other sources of local pride 

 in which city folk rejoice, he naturally and 

 properly makes much of his weather. It is 



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