Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — Heat and Fresh Air. [ARTICLE]

Heat and Fresh Air.

It is ungrateful as well as unwise to knock the weather man when the mercury In the thermometer gets ambitious of a rise. One way and another summer heat lures and drives humanity outdoors into the fresh air. Thousands of city folks sleep on the roofs and in parks and squares who but for the oppressive heat would never inhale during sleep so much as a single breath of fresh air. Outdoor air Is hot and even stifling, but far less stifling than air shut between walls and kept from motion. City folks are not alone in preferring the outside of a house to the inside In summer. Even in the open country a large part of the house, especially in the upper stories, is too hot for comfort. The country kitchen travels to a shed or shady tree. The table goes under a tree also unless there is a spacious open porch. At night all doors and windows remain open, the largest and airiest rooms are invaded by sleepers, and everybody be» comes a fresh air fiend In the process of getting cool quarters. The moving air may seem as hot to the face as dead air, but It is Invigorating to breathe. Players play harder and longer In hot weather than In cool and hold out because they breathe more fresh air in twenty-four hours. And folks who loaf should thank the heat for forcing them to loaf in the open air.