Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-07
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Nothing is easier. In the first place
dress with care. Wesr flannel next
the skin, both in order that the perspi-
ration may be absorbed and put in
fair way OF tranquil evaporation, and
likewise in order to be presentable in
to society, which you will not be if
your shirt looks as If it had just been
wruug out" Wear light clothing,
linen or ALPACA, or some Of the many
gossamer stuffswhich are made.for sum-
mcr wear. BE careful about the back
Of the neck. According to our present
fashions, man must wear about TWEEN
ty folds of various kinds of stuffs on
the back of his neck. in the SHAPE of
coat, vest, and shirt collars and cravsts.
Curtail these as far as possible. 10 all
tropical countries; men wear the neck
bare, or protected by single linen
covering. The back Of the neck, IN
military sense, is the key to the body;
better leave waistcoat, cravat or tie,
and shirt collar at home, than overload
it with clothing.
Next, avoid mental irritation and
muscular exertion, if you can. Anger
is as heating as blsst furnace; every
angry word is accompanied by gush
OF perspiration. Nor is it necessary
for the transaction Of business that
your movements should be violent or
hurried. The men who do the most
work move leisurely. Haste is not
speed nor shall you perform your
work the faster for spasmodic action Of
the arms and legs. DO what you have
to do steadily and perseveringly, but
move no muscles but those whose mo-
ton is necessary.
1t is question whether the con-
sumption Of liquids is bneficial or inju-
rious. On the one 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 perspire the most, suf-
fer least from the heat.
A few points may be laid down.
The man who, on a hot 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 two o'clock
will not need them at all. And it is
in any case, fatal to drink spirituous
liquors. 1t is known that a habitual
consumer of ardent spirits will be able
to sit comfortably, in winter, in a room
where temperate man would almost
freeze. For the same reason the ha-
bitual "drinker" of ardent spirits will
suffer acutcly from heat when the alb
stemious man will not feel any incon-
venience. In hot weather, claret and
water is the most intoxicating bever-
age which a man should venture to
taste. He might as we'll spend an
hour or two In steamers fire room
as taste brandy or whisky.
After ALL, the preventive against
suffering from excessive heat is con-
slant occupation of the mind. Peo-
pie have an idea that heat is enervat-
ing. Yet almost all the great exploits
of which mankind boast have been
performed under scorching sun all
the great battles have been fought in
the dog days /; at no season has the
human intellect been so vigorous as
when the heat was fercest. There is
nothing enervating in heat to those
who do net desire to be enervated.-
And the best of all ways to defy the
suns power, is to devote ones mind
with renewed energy to some particu-
lar pursuit. Ardent labor and unre-
mitting attention to one particular
task, divert the mind from the minor
concern Of the temperature. The in
dustrious man wonders, of an evening,
when he hears that the weather has
been oppressive. lie has not suffered,
because the subject never occurred to
him. 1t is the idle and thoughtless
who are heard calling the oldest in
habitant to witness that there never
was such weather before.