The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-08-17
HOW TO KEEP COOL.

A correspondent requests us to inform him how
to keep cool in the dog-days. Nothing is easier.
In the first place dress with Wear flannel
next the skin, both that the pcrspiration may bc
absorbed and put in fair way Of tranquil evapora-
ton, and likewise to be prcscntabe in society,
which YOU will not DC If your shirt looks as though
it had Just been ''rung out Wear light clothing,
linen or apacca, some one oi the many SoSSa-
mcr stuffs which are made for summer wear. he
careful about the back of the neck. According t"
our present fashions man must wear about tWcn-
tv folds of various kinds of stuff the back of his
neck in the shape of coat, vest, shirt collar and
cr,vat Curtail these as far rs possible. In ell
tropical countries, men the neck bare or pro
tected. by single linen covering. The back "i
tAe neck, in military sense, Is the key to the
BODY; better leave waistcoat Crtvat ard shirt col
lar 1T hcmc, than overload the neck with clothing
| Net avoid mental irritation and muscular cN-
crtiun, It YOU can. Anger is as heating MS blast
furnace; every angry word is accompanied by
crlsh of porsIiraion. Nor is it necessary for the
transaction Of business that your movements should
be violent or hurried. The men who do the most
work lcisurely. Haste is rot speed; nor shall
| YOU perform your work the faster toT spasmodIc
/ action of the arms and legs 10 what you have tJ
do steadily and pasevcrngly, hut move no mus
cIcs but those whose motion is necessary
1t is question whether the consumption OF
liquids is beneficial or injurious. On the ono
hand it is certain that the introduction OF liquids
into the system promotes Perspiration; but on the
other it seems equally certain that those who per-
suire the most suffer the least from heat. lew
| points NAV be laid down. The man who on n hot
dry day, Yields to the thirst which heat creates,
and drinks before noon, will be troubled with thirst
till evening; while he who abstains from liquids
till o'clock will not need them at all And it II,
in any case fatal to drink spurious Liquors. 1t IS
| known that a habitual consumer OF ardent spirits
would be able to sit comfortably, i'll winter, IN
room where temperate man would almost freeze
For the same reason the habual c;rinker of ardent
snirts will suffer acutcly from the heat when the
abstemious man will not feel any Inconvenience
In hot weather. clarct and water is the most ntoX-
icatinc beverage which should venture to
taste He might as well spend an hour or two III
q steamers ire-room as taste brandy or whiskey.
After ALL the best preventive against suffering
from excessive heat is constant occupation OF the
mind People have an idea that heat Is cnervat-
ing. Yet almost all the great exploits OF which
mankind boast have been performed under burn
inc sun; all the great battles have been fought IN
the docdays; at no season has the human intellect
been SO vigorous as when the heat was fcrccst.
There is nothing cncrvatng III heat to those VINO
do not desire to be cncrvatCd And the best OF
all ways to defy the suns power Is to devote one ,
mind with renewed energy to some particular pur-
suit. Ardent labor, and unrcinltting attention to
one particular task, divert the mind from the minor
concern of temperature. The industrious man
wonders, of an evening, when he hears that the
weather has been oppressive. Hc has not suffer
, ed because the subject never occurred to hm. 1T
is the idle and the thoughtlcss who heard call
ing the oldest inhabitant 70 witness that there
never was such weather bctorc.--IHnpeJ's Weekly