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common to every inland section of this vast 

 country, except to certain mountain resorts 

 to which people betake themselves for the 

 pleasure, we presume, of being able to tell 

 their friends that they were obliged either to 

 kindle a fire in August or else freeze to death. 

 Doubtful summer joys both, methinks. The 

 month of June is the hot month. About the 

 3Oth thunderstorms may be looked for ; and 

 throughout July and August, while the death- 

 rate swells higher and higher in the sweltering 

 Middle West and in the Eastern cities, here 

 only the hypercritical can find cause for 

 complaint. But, then, there are persons who 

 are seeking paradise on earth ; and they are 

 still seeking. 



Sunstrokes and prostration from heat are 

 unheard of with us. Therefore, when we 

 read of this form of suffering occurring in 

 England when the thermometer is only ' in 

 the vicinity of 80 ' in our clime a delicious 

 and health-giving temperature we realize 

 more than ever the aseptic and invigorating 

 qualities of the atmosphere we daily breathe. 

 And no matter to what height the thermometer 

 may rise later, the morning hours are in- 



