Peregrinatfons along the Bund during the typhoon days have been accomplished only at con-Siderable risk to hat and hair, Diet to mention skirts. Full many a noble piece of headgear has been swept from the bead and under the motor which has flattened it out like the proverbial pancake.. Large picture hats have caught the breeze and sailed away with gallants after them in hot pursuit, while as for the poor ricsha* coolies' unanchored headgear, after some tricksy puff of wind the air seems black with disreputable straw hats.
Our most respectable friends zig-zag along under mo more potent influence than the strong breeze, and the tacking necessary to gain headway makes the passage from the Astor House to the Palace Hotel considerable of la journey. Ladies who brave the perils of the trip clutch their hats firmly and their skirts with equal decision, resolving to have their chapeaux tied on and their garments securely weighted if this weather continues. The most enthusiastic American enlarging upon the glories of his native land cannot maintain that the tempests which sweep round the notorious Flat Iron Building of New York are not outmatched by a good industrious typhoon wind that puts its back into its work.
If the extra violence of the rampageous Winds could only be conserved in some reservoir, to be drawn upon as needed on some close and sticky, days, what economies of nature might not be achieved? A weather exchange between our hottest and our coldest days might be effected to their mutual benefit. Of course it might be a little hard on the electric fan man and the coal dealer respectively, but the arrangement might be made so unobtrusively as not to throw out the balance of the seasons and then the only people defrauded would be these who revel in experiencing the "hottest day in 15 years" or the "worst winter since '97.""
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