“HOT!” 06 Jan 1910. 110 years ago they grumbled, but they had figured out what Australia was like. Now it should be like someplace else. The writer here says he’s sweating. Let today’s writers sweat it out with no AC and a taste of the good old days they want back. You think they won’t be grumbling or worse?
“HOT” (1910, January 6). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929), p. 6. Retrieved January 19, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60153966?searchTerm=hot%20summers%20and%20cold%20winters&searchLimits=#
“As the day lengthens the cold strengthens. That’ is an old-country weather dictum, which— for once in a while— is accurate, just as the reverse is in the Commonwealth.
This season in South Australia is a particularly noteworthy illustration of the fact. Until the passing of the longest day, the State had bad weather which, with few exceptions, was more winterly than summerly: but since then the summer has found itself as well as the weak points in our critics and other sinners.
Most folk are grumbling now because they have been visited, after a long period of un-natural coolness which they did not expect, with a heat wave much less hot than they should have expected and such as they have endured in some other years following a spell of natural
hotness.
The Australian finds his first English winter less trying than it is to the seasoned resident-and similarly with the Australian summer to the Englishman— there is no other climate in the world more healthy or more pleasant than that of South Australia, heat wave or no heat wave, ex-
tremes or an absence of them.
When one hears the puffing and the growling with which on a hot day some grumblers annoy other folk one remembers the old sayings— “The more blessings a
man has the more he wants,” and “A community is never more thankless than when it ought to be most thankful.”
Whether a heat wave hurts or not is largely a matter of philosophy and of imagination— and also, of course, of the individual.
One fine formula is this— “However hot the weather is, keep cool yourself.” Don’t put up the apoplexy barometer by worrying.
There would be less suffering when the thermometer is having a good day with its bat if people who loll about “phewing” and making others feel more hot would occupy their attention by some work—
As the writer of this illuminating article is doing in the public interest, while the perspiration records are, like himself, trying their best to be good.
“Fearful weather!” Fearful nonsense!
The weather is just what it ought to be; and as the old sage remarked— no, it was
not Sir Charles Todd-it has to be endured, whether or not.