CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WINDS
The influence of the four great winds in character may be a fancied one; but it is evident on temperament, which is not altogether a matter of temperature. The north wind is full o| courage, and it puts the stamina of endurance into a man. The w*est wind is hopeful: it has adventure in it. Except to Atlantic voyagers America bound, it is the
best wind that ever blew. The east wind is peevishnees: it is mental rheumatism and and curls one up in the chimney-corner like, a cat. If the chimney ever smokes, it smokes j when the wind is in that quarter. The south wind is full of longing and unrest, of effeminate suggestions, of luxurious . ease. The south is the most powerful j of the winds, because of its sweet persuasiveness. . Nothing so stirs the blood in spring, when it arrives out of I the tropical latitude; it makes men ‘Tongen to go on pilgrimages.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 4
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