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His wondrous ways, as displayed in ice tracings or
palengenesis.
Next day I inspected several windows of dry goods
merchants, but found nothing, except where woolen stuffs
were exposed, when they generally displayed grass and
foliage, plainly such large herbage as Australian sheep
graze on, the large windows at Messrs. Griesheimer &
Co., facing Lake street, corner of South Clark street,
furnishing very fine specimens. Meat markets showed
similar herbage tracings, although coarser and somewhat
chopped off, and so did leather findings and even shoe
stores.
A paint store window on Monroe street sampled various
groups, or big splashes, of enlarged mineral crystallizations,
and so did a printer’s ink store on Harrison street.
But linen, or rather cotton shirt displays, seemingly
produced nothing anywhere but snow-flakes, moisture frozen
from within in the regular way; nor stationery and periodicals
exhibited for sale, for these latter were indeed the
dead letter within, that require human intelligence to
endow it with life.
Empty store windows and doors were devoid of icy
tracings, there generally being no moisture within to
furnish the drawing materials for “Jack Frost,” and no
plants or animals defunct, still endowed with particles of
undying vitality, to supply the patterns.
Scarcely a day passed during this cold weather that
did not add charming demonstrations of the frosty flowers
left by the vital energy of plants. Thus on the night of
February 9 I called upon a family at 3129 Wentworth ave.,
to see if the plants in their front parlor had made any
ice portraitures. Being such cold weather they had shut
off their front parlor a day or two previously, and removed
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