Sharp County record., 1880-08-19
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mental and moral funch
by anger or haste, VIII
flaws of spiritual heat. Il
a temperate pulse is cOrnr
good thinking and wise actio,..
term " hot-headed' implies the san,
limitation and reproach.
But in this rainless, ardent, brilliant
atmosphere of ours, how are we to heed
the adyicep The solar thermometer,
which registers the heat in which man
actually works and lives and swelters,
registers 140 degrees on days by no
means the hottest of the season. 1t is
the temperature of the tropics, which
vet does not induce the habits of the
tropics.
For we are Northern race and we
cannot yet defy our descent. Centuries
long our ancestors dwelt comfortably in
cool, rain-soaked, leafy England; or they
manned their boats on the chill shores
of the North Sea and set their icy sails
with fierce joy in winter winds and
hostile skies, as constant foes to subduei
or, wandering in the dark forests OF
Leeswick, they clothed themselves with
skins and woolens for warmth and
fought and wrestled to set their blood
a-tingle.
Is It any wonder that we, children OF
such fathers, droop when the mercury
marks ninety degrees in the shade, or
fall dead, struck by the fiery javelins OF
the sunp To keep cool is not to insure
comfort alone; it is often to keep alive.
The first condition of GOODNESS is a
proper diet. The Esquimaux, munch-
ING his blubber, drinking oil with de-
light, seems to us a revolving animal.
But he is simply obeying Nature. She
says to HIM, Assimilate all the carbon
you can, lest you perish of cold" Here
she sets a different feast. With the
first languors of spring her salads and
earliest vegetables are ready. AS the
days 90 on, one crowds another, so pro-
fuse is she; and with the strong heats
of summer, her acid fruit tempts us to
eat. First come shy strawberries, hid
ing under sheltering leaves; then gems
of currants, strung double along their
stems; pulpy rasp6erries; amber goose
berries, bursting with why juice; and
while her rich black berries still bend
the thorny stalks, the fragrant grapes
cry "pluck me! pluck me-"
Cherries, apples, pears, plums,
peaches, shower themselves upon us,
adding beauty to excellence, to tempt
us away from butchers stall and confec-
TONER shop. Perhaps only Americans
who have lived much abroad and starved
for the fruit they wasted at home, can
appreciate fully the adaptation of this
food to our needs. Vegetable and fruit
from early spring to late autumn would
save us many fever, and keep us clear
headed, strong-hearted, cool-blooded.
If meet be used at all during this
PERIOD it should be sparingly. And II
certain constitutions require it as sure
ly certain others are far better without
it. All rich cakes, pastries and confec-
tions also supply the Objectionable car
bon, clog the system, and, as the phrase
is, are heating"
1t goes without saying that bathing is
an important means of GOODNESS. The
freer the skin, the more liberal the ex-
cretion. But we do not so readily re-
member that allowing a small stream Of
cold water to run on the inside of the
wrists will lower the temperature OF the
body several degrees in a brief space.
The great blood-vessels there receive
the pleasant shock, and difluse it to the
remotest point in the intricate network
of veins and nerves.
Of course loose dressing of the neck
and wrists is essential to GOODNESS. Soft
ruff1es are better than stiff linen, which
often binds like bandage. Under-gar-
ments should be made in one, if posi-
BILE, to equalize the covering of the body.
Doubtless we invite those "hushes OF
heat" which are most grievous to en-
dure, by our own heedlessness. Wego
out when by good management we
might stay IN, We walk when by con.
triYance we might ride. And we move
at the same pace that we keep at mid
winter, when the air is crisp with oxy-
gen, and motion is delight. We do
not even cross the street to the shady
side, thinking it too much trouble five
have not far to go.
But if we have tropical conditions, we
must, to some extent, adopt tropical
habits, or perish in the attempt to adapt
our polar instincts to our equatorial
state 1t is not laziness, it is wisdom,
to tighten summer work as much as
possible, to do what must be done early
or late, but not when it can be avoided,
at midday, to saunter where we are
prone to rush, and to rest whenever we
can. With fruit, bath-tub, an UNI
brella, fan and judgment, life may be
made endurable in the summer solstice,
even on the fortieth parallel of north
latitude, and in the temperate zone