Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — "Dog Days” are Here. [ARTICLE]

"Dog Days” are Here.

The “dog days” have begun. This season, which, we believe, last six weeks, is regarded by many persons as being more unhealthy than that whioh immediately precedes or succeeds it and as a time when mankind is more liable to attacks from disease through exposure or imprudence in' general habits than in any other in the year. If there is no foundation or fact in the belief it is at any rate a superstition of long standing. There are even those now who would not for a single moment be regarded as at all superstitious who look upon “dog days” as exercising bad influence upon everything. The heat while the “dog days” last is usually more sultry and oppressive than any other in the summer. Then, too, meats and vegetables are sup posed to be in more danger of spoiling from the effeots of the weather than at any other time. Be this as it may, vre have now entered upon “dog days,” and it would be well for us to be oareful in our diet and manner of living.