THE FRIENDLY FOG
Surprising though it may be, some people like fog, states a writer in the ‘‘Children’s Newspaper.” We know someone who enjoys the isolation it gives; and someone else who declares that there is nothing in the world which makes him more thankful for his own home than a thick fog, which always gives him the impression that the whole earth has vanished, leaving his one house alone in the Universe. Charles Darwin wrote of the grandeur of the smoky London fogs which, he said, made him glory in the thought of remaining in town all the winter through. Even Mazzini, born under Italian skies, loved the English 'fogs, for years after his return to his own sunny land he wrote of the way in which they laid the cities under a spell.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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135THE FRIENDLY FOG Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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