THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



magnificent; so is the ocean in a storm. 

 Even Broadway is worth seeing in a pour- 

 ing rain. 



Speaking of "bad" weather, this oppor- 

 tunity cannot pass without a challenge to 

 this pet superstition of civilization. It is 

 too bad that such a foolish notion should 

 have such universal currency. That is a 

 wise aphorism of Professor Bailey's that 

 the weather cannot be bad, because it is 

 not a human institution. Many persons 

 will still think, perhaps, that certain sorts 

 of weather are disagreeable, the drizzling 

 rain in the city, or the driving storm in the 

 country; but this is really only because of 

 their own negligence in not being prepared 

 for it. 



The bugaboo of bad weather is kept alive 

 principally on three kinds of diet, — ^first, a 

 stupid enslavement to conventionalities ; sec- 

 ond, a thoughtless neglect of proper clothing ; 

 and, third, the truly idiotic habit of making 

 the weather bear the burden of all small con- 

 versation. Some persons dislike the rain 

 because it spoils their clothes. It is true 

 that one can not comfortably wear trailing 

 skirts and silk petticoats on the street on 

 rainy days; but the trailing skirts are an 



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