''Cloudy and Colder" 



before they were clubbed to bed for 

 the night. 



On my way back from the Loop this 

 evening to the cliff in which we dwell 

 in winter-time I left the car at Lin- 

 coln's monument for a walk through 

 the park. The cold wave prognos- 

 ticated by the Weather Bureau this 

 time had not been side-tracked on its 

 eastward way, as often happens in the 

 vicinity of the Lake. There is real 

 oxygen in the atmosphere. Fifteen 

 minutes here amidst the creaking 

 branches of the trees I am sure will 

 change the color of one's blood. If 

 you want an ocular demonstration of 

 your own circulatory system you have 

 only to look at those elms to observe 

 your own trunk lines and capillaries. 

 The scheme is the same wherever it is 

 studied. Kinship is everywhere ob- 

 servable. There are five big cotton- 

 woods standing in a clump. Their 

 roots, as well as their highest branches, 

 are closely intermingled; but they 

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