Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1916 — Keeping Cool [ARTICLE]

Keeping Cool

(By Walt Mason)

If calm and cool you’d feel and look, while summer heat is blisterin’, you’ll patronize the babbling brook, the village pump or cistern. For tanglefoot and old red ink and bugjuice make you hotter; there’s nothing better, as a drink, than undiluted water. Discourse of light and pleasant things, discuss this mighty nation, : talk much of cabbages and kings, but not of perspiration. Let such a theme as politics by you be never treated, for arguing andr throwing bricks will get you overheated. Be gentle with your patient wife, and say she is a darling; if you get cross there will be strife, and forty kinds of snarling; you can’t be cool when angry dame 3 accept the gage of battle; you can’t be cool while calling names that make the dishes rattle. Be calm and placid as you can, hunt up the soft drink fountains; turn on the small electric fan, and think of Greenland’s mountains.