BEARING HOT WEATHER.
The number of ways in which suffering humanity rebels against hot weather is really surprising. The limp lady extends herself on a sofa •with the lightest novel she can find, and pauses at every fifth page to gently wavo a palm-leaf fan and sigh. The injured gentleman sets his hat exceedingly far back, lifts his eyebrows as high as they will go, looks with indignant astonishment at tho thermometer, and remarks, ' Whe-ew!' at frequent intervals. The nervous lady fidgets from room to room in a dressing-sacque, altering the arrangement of the shutters, hoping the ice "won't give out; wondering why they don'ti sprinkle the streets oftener, and fanning herself with a vigor that -would suffice to ■warm the blood of a coachnnp-n in mid■winter. The obstinate man maintains aggressively against opponents too languid to argue that no such season was ever before known, and proves it by the figures of his own especial thermometer, which always stands several degrees higher than anybody's else. The frivolous girl dons her airiest muslin, gets herself treated to an ice cream, chatters like a magpie, wishes fervently that her face wasn't so flushed, and trembles when she thinks of her crimes.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3549, 23 November 1882, Page 4
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200BEARING HOT WEATHER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3549, 23 November 1882, Page 4
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