-If school didn't start just now,- commented Norma Travers, -I wonder what we would do? Everything else seems to stop short.- -I never saw shadows come and go so weirdly on any other first day,- added Judith Stearns ominously. -I hope it doesn't mean a sign, as Velma Sigbee would put it,- and dark eyed Judith waved her arms above her black head to ward off the blow. -Is it too early to suggest science?- lisped Maud Leslie timidly. -I've been reading about the possible change of climate and its relation to the sun's rays going wild into space. I don't want to start anything, but it might be judicious to buy more furs next Summer. Also it might justify the premonitory fad.-