New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-27
KEEPING COOL,

Ninety in the shaded The high temperatures
orrive this wear eary and we are sudorihca before
orr time What we should suffer only in July
comes in these last lingering days of May IL she
had her lap chilled. in this 1880. 1t was
refrigerated to little purpose. Suddenly We are
called to consider the question OF Keeping cool
and very important question it is. Ninety Ill
the shade is not normal. AS a race. we have
changed orr Skies and it was never meant,
humanity speaking that we of the Anglo-Saxon
strain should swelter in such meridians. We come
of cool ancestors We do not trace our gcnealogies
to the children of Sahara, nor to those swarthy
folk who sweat upon the very line. Each year
wo encounter tOrrid temperatures which were
hardly meant for us. because Nature, IN htr
arrangements. made no allowance for immigration.
Yet there is science Of living comfortably through
the dog days, and Of tcmperng their herce
irritation We take this opportunity OF seriously
recommending 20 our readers to consider how, this
Summer they are to keep cool. II is useless 10 Try
to dodge tho frrvent problem. The torrld Is not
to be trfcd with. The fcverish must be accepted
We must fortify ourselves against this enormous
swelter coming down upon us, an army with banners
which, like the Irish flag, are yellow sun-ourSts'
1t must be admitted that we fight the fight in
rather 4 clumsy way. Half our efforts to keep cool
make us warmer and warmer. We blunder IN
clothing and diet, in our beverages. in sleeping
in hundred other ways. We open the wrong
window and shut the right one. We go with q
rush when we should go with snails pace. we
walk when we should ride. We eat as II 1t were
midwinter. We forget our umbrellas. We set up
our supremacy against Nature, and decline to be
brocd with our own consent Yet we are done
brown all the same.
The first rule which the Summer should load us to
observe is that of doing everything deliberately.
1t will not do to hurry as we did in December.
LocOmoton should be reduced to a minimum.
Happy is he who from all the fret and turmoil and
worry of life has learned the lesson of taking the
shady side of the stTeet--nay more. OF seeking
streets of which both sides arc shady Thrice
happy is he who, when he advances in the morning
to his daily work. can maintain certain de-
liberation, keeping guard over his pace, and never
for q moment forgetting that there is warm and
cool way of doing everything. little care
makes a deal of difference. Whoever starts out
furiously may put himself into fever for the day
beyond the curative power of ice, of juleps or Of
fans. There is Il method for the season if we can
only maintain it. Tho whole matter amounts to
no more than that we must take good care of our
selves and be simply sensible.
1t is necessary to make business of keeping
COOL In tho Winter we go into perfect labyrinth
of wraps; We add coat to coat and comforter to
comforter; we guard against cold as if we were
sure that negligence would be mortal. Why not
DO rs precautionary in tho Summer, in dress, In
diet in the arrangement Of living places, in all
the economies of our livesf Why not declare in the
beginning that we will not succumb to the season