The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-07-02
HOW TO LIVE IN SUMMER.
some Judicious Advice from nm Authority

Some Judicious Advice from an Authority,
1t is as yet point of dispute whether
cotton stuffs are the best wear, many
approving of light woolens. For women,
nothing is sweeter in summer than a
linen dress it is pity we do not pat
ronize linens more for adults for
children, cottons for workingmen,
worsteds. The heavy suits of men are
weighing them down in summer, and
clothes of serge are far preferable to
those of thick wooden cloth. Very thin
silk is q cool wear. The heavily laden
skirts of women impede the free action
of movement much, and should be sim
plified as much as possible for summer.
So also the headgear.
Infants, if at all delicate, should not
be allowed to go with bare feet it often
produces diarrhea, and they sboul1
always wear flannel band round the
stomach. Another important matter is
the changing of night and day linen
among the poorer classes. 1t is terrible
to think that a workingman should lie
down in the shirt in which he has per-
spired all day at his hot work. Let men
accustom themselves to good washes
every evening before they sit down to
their meals, and to changes at night,
that they may take up dry shirt when
going to their hard days work.
Frequent changes of linen is abso-
lutely necessary-anyhow, a night and
day change. This change alone would
help to stay mortality among children,
if accompanied with other healthy
measures, such as sponging the body
with little salt and water. Where
tenements are very close wet sheets
placed against walls will aid to revivify
the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms.
All children's hair should be cut short;
boys hair may be cropped, and girls
hair so arranged by nets or plaits that
air passes freely round the neck.
Light head coverings are essential in
summer, for the head must be kept
cool. The most serviceable dress is
that which allows air to pass freely
around your limbs and stops neither the
evaporation of the bodyn nor the circula-
ton of the refreshing atmosphere. In
summer you must breathe freely and
lightly; you cannot do so with your
stomach full of undigested food, your
blood full of overheated alcohol, your
lungs full of vitiated air, your smell
disgusted with nauseous scents, your
system unable to carry out the natural
process of digestion. All the sanitary
arrangements in the world will do no
good if we eat and drink in such q
fashion that we are constantly putting
on fuel where it is not needed, and stuff.
ing up our bodily draught, as we would
| - t,,,cr
norance and our bad habits spoil the
summer, that delightful season of the
year--nothing else.
Activity, rest and recreation arc
weighty matters in influencing oul
health in summer. We are not so vel
inclined for activity, and yet nothing
will so much assist us as healthy EN-
ployment of our energies, without over
exertion. Pity those who must exer
themselves to the utmost in this horrit
weather. and feel gratified if you neet
only moderately use your strength
Activity keeps the system going, thu
blood in healthy circulation, the digest
i've process free from costiveness, tn,
, skin open for evaporation, and prevent
all clogging of the machine. If no
; forced to work in some way or othe
be active anyhow; occupy your mint
and exercise your limbs. Stagnatiol
will bring about lethargy and allow tn
: atmosphere a greater influence upol
/, you.
On the other hand, full rest is q
necessary, The exhausted frame want
more recuperation, the brain less strair
: the system more gentle treatment
Things look often darker in he
weather; heat weighs upon the uppe
= : portion of the head, communicating i
= self to the perceptive powers, and il
, fuences the senses. We see picture
before us, and fancy we have not th
u power to combat difficulties. It is sal
that more suicides are committed
. = hot than cold weather. A health
sleep in this hot season is worth
great deal to us; try to court it, an
!, never play with your life and health |
. willfully neglecting it.
- And what shall we say of that preciou
u and, as yet, so little understood pha
% . of life, our recreation? If there is ol
9 thing more than another to be enco
ragged in summer, it is reasonable recr
= alton that exercise between body al
y mind which brings about harmon
" between both that periodical abstai
u ing from incessant labor which rende
y us fresher for it /; that intercourse wi
- ! beautiful Mother Earth which leads
~ ~ to value natural aspirations.
70 Never pass day in summer witho
10 " some calm half-hour for quiet and enjC
"a ment; life has only so many years, a
2 O. during their space We should live, I
=. vegetate. The time will come VIII
q sanitary measures and means for enjC
ing higher phase of life will be thoug
of more than laying up things that ru
We cannot here enter upon the met
ing of recreation in wider sense
IL it is not recreation to rush out of to
ke and stop at some place to drink b.
'r. and smoke all the time; it is not rec
of alton to push on in crowds for excl
ry ment out of doors it is not recreat
5le to overhead yourself and feel m
I'd. fatiouad the dav altar than tho Z