Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1873 — Keeping Cool. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Cool.

How to do it is what nearly all wish to know this hot weather, and innumerable expedients are resorted to for accomplishing the purpose. It were better for us had we less hot weather. With the thermometer at 9!) ® in the shade it is certainly not advisable for any one to continue itt even moderate labor in tire sun; Yet I do think the majority of people, especially those who have nothing else to do than’ to seek their own comfort, worry themselves far more than is needful about the warm weather. As the sun moves upwards in the heavens and the mercury rises in the tube, such persons begin to feel the heat oppress them. They seek for cool and .shady places : drink .cooling draughts and. ply die fan with a vigor worthy of a better cause. “If a little is bad a great deal must be worse” they seem to think,, as the perspiration begins to appear, and diey look forward to the heat of the day..with feelings of dread, almostdespair, when they see how r difficult it already is tq keep cool. It is a great mistake to thus fight against one of the beneficent laws of nature. To perspire freely is a very proper thing to do in hot weather, and One very needful to our health and comfort. If instead of resisting it so persistently, we would go about some light work, and allow the weather and our mortal bodies to regulate themselves according to the rational laws in Such cases provided, we would soon find. ourselves much wore comfortable. Perspiring ffeely cools the body, on the same principle tITAt a pitcher of water is kept cool by wrapping about it a wet towel. It is also a great mistake to keep the house so closely shut up during the day. Pure air is of more importance in sleeping chambers than coo) air. A room into which the direct rays of the sun are never

admitted is no fit plape for ft person to sleep. In iriy occasional rambles about the country, Tofteh gbt very tired, and when I ask for the privilege of taking a quiet rest, after my favorite style of repose—that is, stretched out at full length upon my back upon the floor— and am shown, in all kindness, to what- is sup. posed to be the most comfortable room in the house, because .the coolest and the darkest, and therefore most free from flies amt mosquitoes, I almost Invariably find a musty and sickening air next to the floor, often so bad, indeed, that I am compelled to abandon for the time the qliietrest 1 had vi -11 <■< 1 for Carpets are enough of a nuisance to health without the addition of constantly closed blinds and curtains.— ('or. Prarie Farmer.