The Archive · 1928

ENGL CLIMATE

Sept. 29.

Charles Il is credited with having said that a man can sleep out of doors in England more nights than in any country he knew. Few of us would be prepared to believe the Merry Monarch's words, or we should fall back upon the excuse that the climate of his day must have been vastly different from what it is now.

But a weather expert has recent-taken -up the cudgels for a climate that has probably provided more jokes for the comic papers than any other subject, including mothers-in-law. and This gentleman in ing article to the "Daily Mail seeks to make the Englishman rather proud than otherwise of his native summer weather, and he makes out good case too.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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