Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — Bathing Not Only Way of Keeping Cool [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bathing Not Only Way of Keeping Cool

By Uncle Joe Cannon, Illinois Congressman; Eugene Christian, New York Food Specialist, and William Muldoon, Athletic Trainer

Hard Work Will Hake You For* get Heat —CANNON

I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY SAFE AND BANE RECIPE FOR KEEPING COOL. GOOD, CONSISTENT HARD

WORK THAT WILL MAKE YOU FORGET THE HEAT FOR THE TIME IS A SORT OF COUNTER IRRITANT. Cold drinks won’t help, but I don’t hesitate to say that if I were invited to a midsummer dinner that was to be more or less of a function, with rich food and richer conversation, I might indulge in some. Then along with the dinner, if you didn’t want the food to disagree with you, lots of ice and some carbonated water might help.

Cold Unsweetened Drinks Will Keep You Cool -CHRISTIAN

Hcold drink is not NECEBSARILY COOLING. For instance, there is never a GREATER MISTAKE made than that of the person who runs to the soda water fountain and absorbs many ice cream sodas, thinking these cooling. The ice cream is full of sugar, sugar is full of carbon. You feed the system with carbon and heat the blood, so how can one then expect to be cool? If a man or woman wants to drink SOMETHING COOLING, take lemonade without sugar, or use any of the fruit juices without sugar, or drink buttermilk. 3 >

Bodily Health Will Stop Hot Weather Suffering —MULDOON

Recent statistics give the report of over 400 deaths throughout the country, a

direct cause being from excessive heat. IT SIMPLY SHOWS HOW FEW PEOPLE GIVE PROPER CONSIDERATION TO THE CONDITION OF THEIR BODIES, OF THEIR BODILY HEALTH, TO RESIST THE CONDITIONS IN EMERGENCIES OF THIS KIND.

Our bodies are well able to stand the strain if our minds would only give them PROPER CARE by reducing the amount of work as much as possible without extra demand upon the vitality; laying aside such work as can wait for a few days, cutting down the amount of food to onehalf or less, cutting out ABSOLUTELY anything containing alcohol, cutting down the use' of other narcotics, tobacco, coffee and tea to a very MODERATE amount, taking longer hours for rest, making up your mind to submit GRACEFULLY to the discomforts of the high temperature.

Remember that a cool drink may feel refreshing while you are swallowing it, but that it is only a MOMENTARY SATISFACTION and will probably put the body to a great deal of inconvenience a little later. The very best thing to drink is water, sufficiently cool to taste nice, but not ice cold. In fact, any drink 1 ice cold or as cold as it can be made by putting ice in it is very injurious, more so in hot weather than in cold.

CANNON