ENGLISH WEATHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1249, 7 October 1884, Page 3

ENGLISH WEATHER.

It is said that nine persons out of ten, when they meet a friend, open the conversation bv some remark on the weather. This is not only true but natural. Whom does not the climate and the state of the weather concern? It affects the pleasure of monarchs, it is everything to the beggar ; I cannot, therefore, escape the universal law ; I must speak of the weather ; and let me frankly say that I cannot like the English climate. The English winter presses hard on all alike ; the rich do not know how to make their houses comfortable. And it presses Larder on the poor, for they cannot guard against the cold, damp atmosphere of their dwellings if they would. A bright clear sky, with the snow crisp and dry as we have it it Canada, and this for weeks continuously, even though the temperature is much below that of an English winter, is infinitely preferable to dark gloomy skies, and an unceasing downfall of rain. How under such depressing skies, the Anglo-Saxon energy has survived, led Englishmen into every land, from the tropics to the poles, and covered (he face of the earth with busy and flourishing communities, is still to me one of those mysteries of which the solution lies deep below the surtace. Any other race of men would have become as weak and colorless as the washed-out tints which aestheticallydisposed young men and women now profess to admire, and would never have strayed beyond the borders of the Rritisb Isles,—Cassell’s Family Magazine,