WEATHER INFLUENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12176, 27 November 1917, Page 8

WEATHER INFLUENCE.

(By WALT MASON.) The weather man has much to do with making people glad or blue. On dreary Jays of fog and rain men are disgruntled and complain; when weather is as had as that, I'd never pass around the hat; for when a man js chilled, alack! with goose-flesh up and down his back, be won't chip in a pair of straws to help along a worthy cause.. He fools that he will need his roll to purchase blankets, grub and coal. He. looks with pessimistic eye on everything beneath the skv, and says the Germans can't be licked, and all their foes will be goldbricked. Rut when the weather man's begun to trot along his good ol£ sun, and when the skies are blue and fair, and like a tonic in the air, and dismal clouds don't come to bat, I like to pass around the hat- 'lhen people reach down in their jeans for coin to buv new submarines, to help Red Cross, V. M. C. A., or anything that comes their way. Then optimistic are all guys; I hear no deep, heart-rending sighs, and people say, " We'll bet some nion we'll have the Oermans on the run." The weather man should realise, bow much depends on being wise, and dish tin days no man can knock—the. very best he has in stock.