Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1879 — Keep Cool. [ARTICLE]

Keep Cool.

The heated season has arrived; there is no false alarm about it this time. Old Sol, the manager, is here to stay, and as his official f mouthpiece, the thermometer, Ls above bribery, there is nothing to be done but endure until the fiery old tyrant goes back south again. It is not necessary to be all the while uncomfortably hot merely because the sun shines, the pavements glow and shade trees are almost unknown in the city. Correct habits of body and mind will antagonise and generally overcome the most persistent efforts of the sun. To begin, avoid heating food; most people allow the palate to determine what they shall eat and how much, which is as foolish as to allow the family fire to select such fuel as best pleases it—gunpowder, r nitroglycerine, etc. Do not increase your physical temperature, particularly that of your head, by drinking alcoholic beverages; when yyator does not suffice a drinfc eoßßalt w pkjtaMan ..inflbß»4. of a Use water externally with frequency! rjo one can get rid of superfluous, heat'through a skin the pores of which are tightly sealed. If yap have a great many cigars that ought to be smoked before they grow

dry and tasteless give them to your enemy; it is better that his liver should be deranged than yours, (or a torpid liver induces a weak, hot head. At least once a day take exercise enough to cause free perspiration; the man who perspires moSt-is always the coolest; the soldier oh drill fn woolen clothing.i under a hot sun, with the thermometer in the nineties, is nioro comfortable than the lounger in white lir.cn and sun umbrella who looks at him. If you have a first-rate thing to get angry about lay it carefully away until cold weather. Do not worry; it is frightfully heating as well as physically extravagant Sleep regularly and full hours, resisting the temptation to sit up late because the evening is the only cool part of the day. A hundred other suggestions might be offered, but the above, if followed, wil enable many a heat-stricken mortal to imagine that this is not so dreadfully hot a summer after all.— ts. Y. Herald.