The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-08-18
Summer Rules.

DR.. Hall, in his Journal of Health, saws;
If you have walking or riding to do, ride
first, because if you walk you may get
.overheated, and then, when you ride, you
may be exposed to an open window or a
draft of air while you are in a still posi-
ton, to be followed by a chill, a pleurisy,
or lung fever, which is pneumonia.
If on any occasion you find yourself the
least bit nOticeably cool, or notice the very
slightest disposition to a chill running
along the back, as you value health and
life, begin a brisk walk instantaneousIy,
and keep at it until perspiration begins to
return; this will seldom fail to ward of a
summer cold, which is more dangerous
than cold taken in winter to all persons
having the slightest tendency to consump-
tion.
Drinking Water.-If very thirsty and
warm, take but swallow al a time, tax
ing the glass from your lips with a dozen
seconds between the swallows; then you
will never fall dead while taking drink,
as many have; in this way half the amount
of water will abundantly satisfy the thirst.
Soda water is an agreeable beverage, but
half glass of cold water will better and
more safely satisfy the thirst, and costs
nothing; besides, in taking glass of wa
ter, you stop when you feel you have had
enough; this you never 60 with a glass oil
soda, but keep on drinking after it is pos
ltively disagreeable, and you to hate to
stop, but drink on again to prevent vast
ing it.
Never sleep in the day time uncovered;
in summer tits always dangerous; even if it
be but half an hour on a bed, lace shawl
Is better fO- a covering than nothing
Many lie down for a few moments, espec-
tally ladies coming from walk, visit or
shopping; they do not intend TO 90 to sleep,
just to rest a minute or two; but many
times they go to sleep, and wake up With
an indistinct chilly feeling, followed in
many cases by serious illness.
When you reach home tired and weak,
maybe accom- panied with an indefnable
feeling of sadness or depression, without
being conscious of any adequate cause of
it, don't take a drink of ice water, howev-
er thirsty, nor a glass of soda, nor a drink
Of wine, but cup of hot tea, as hot as you
can swallow comfortably; the heat is of
more value than the tea itself, but both
combined are Of incaIculable value; if you
are sitting down to meal in this tired
condition Of body, and mental depression,
some hot tea, taken before anything is
eaten, will rouse the circulation, exhile-
rate the StOmach, rally tue spirits and
make you different, better and hap
pier man in less than ten minutes, because
the increasing debility and downward
progress Of the system is arrested by the
warmth Of the water and the active quail
ty Of the tea, until strength begins to be
impaired to the system from the food ta-
ken.
1t is safe to cool ones self off by dabbling
the hands in cold water; safer and more
natural if the water is warm, by the rapid
evaporation every time the hand is lifted
out Of the water. But it is positively dan
gerous TO wash the face in cold water when
much heated. It is not dangerous, but
pleasantly elieaeious, if warm water is
used.