"Cloudy and Colder" 



hope the ground will be white in the 

 morning. 



The first real snowstorm is the best. 

 It transforms instantly a scene of 

 dreariness into a wonderland of pure 

 delight. If great snowfalls occurred as 

 seldom as the eruptions !of Aetna, there 

 would not be Pullmans, Fords and 

 airships enough to transport people 

 across continents to view the match- 

 less beauty of the weeds and woods, the 

 hen roosts, garbage dumps and hovels 

 all glorified by its presence. That 

 which is common is uninteresting. 

 Virtue has to be its own reward; vice 

 holds the first page, and gets the head- 

 lines. 



Around the margin of the park la- 

 goon next morning there were signs of 

 ice; thin crystals clinging to the half- 

 frozen earth in the indentations of the 

 shore line, sharp as spear points at the 

 tips projected towards the open water, 

 transparent and too fragile for any 

 handling. Such I suppose also was the 

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