Connecticut western news., 1883-07-04
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 Regular Correspondence to the NEws.] Boston, July 2, 1883.
 "How to keep cool ?" A question on every tongue. The art of keeping comfortable in hot weather, without physical injury, important as it is, has received but little real thought or study. Often does one feel like exclaiming with Sidney Smith :-"Heat ma'am it was so dreadful here that I found that there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit down in my bones. New England is blessed with climate with temperature changes from 100 in the sh ade in July to 10 below zero in the winter, and frequently in the sum- mer there is rise or fall of 20 degrees in day. When man is hot he fills up his stomach with ice water and ice cream, pulls off coat and vest, finds the coolest breeze, and tries to cool of, thereby risking health and even life. The golden rule for keeping cool is regularity of living, Vegetables and fish are abundent Natures hint as to our proper food. Rice, oatmeal, bread and milk, all kinds of vegetables and fruits very little meat and lemonade i; little ginger in the water if you must have it ice cold and moderation and one will be surprised to find he has passed the heated term with so little discomfort. It's common sense, mod eration and proper food, or doctors.
 The Boston theatres and other amuse- ments are taking rather noisy way of advertising their respective attractions. Bands in wagons and upon horse cars, big drums inside of cloth covered carts, and four-in-hand with an elegant ba- rouche, in which is seated single bu- gler. The merchants and clerks rush to the windows in anticipation of seeing military parade, and nine times out of ten will only discover some new adver- tising scheme. At Oakland garden, delightful little place four miles from the State House, is 8 grand minstrel ju- bilee of genuine colored singers. Besides an extended entertainment in a big sum- mer theatre, the negroes have free and easy cotton picking time upon the lawn under the trees. The cotton is tied, or stuck upon twigs, the negroes pick the same cotton every day but at 8 little dis tance the illusion is perfect. Thousands flock to see the fun, and it is fun I as- sure you, the most delightful of suburb an rides, cool garden, roaring enter tainment and all for quarter, ride, gar den and show.
 For real consolidated beauty the lit tie Boston public garden probably holds the lead in the catalogue of our coun- try's parks. Not grand like Central park, or even Paramount park of Phila- delphia, but genuine oasis of marvel ous floral and landscape arrangement. In this little garden one could count, if he choose, nearly 100000 blooming flowers and plants, all laid out in designs which would do credit to the finest en- broidery. In the evening numerous electric lights turn night into day. The flowers are bathed in brilliant flood of light, and the lake is like mirror. It is as fairy land, weird, enchanting, beautiful. Attractive as is this garden, the "blue blood" of Boston, although living close beside it's borders, do sell dom, if ever, inspect its magnifcence. The poor man and family, the visitor and the irrepressible tramp seem to ex- clusiveiy yS-e;;nY 3 stroll or rest within this delightful spoS.
 Fashionable ladies are rather copying the dress styles of their cooks. Light colored sateens and cotton, made to fit the form closely, or to hang loosely, are very much worn. Some of the dresses seem made up all in one piece, while others contain almost hundred distinct pieces. It is sensible style, inexpen- sive, and extremely fresh, cool, pretty and comfortable.
 For about two centuries the people of Massachusetts have considered and re-considered, the advisability and non- advisibility, of cutting 8 ship canal through Cape Cod. The matter has reached one step toward reality, in the passage of an act to incorporate the Cape Cod Ship Canal Go. If the canal is dug it will greatly shorten the distance for many coastwise and ocean vessels to or from Boston, and besides greatly do away with the dangers of rounding the perilous cape. With the experiences of the great Suez canal as a guide, there is good prospect of the projected enter prise, if attempted, being model of ocean engineering.
 The European travel seems to increase with every year. Hundreds and thous- ands are taking, or are about to take, their first second or even twentieth trip across the water. It is getting to be quite the fashion on leaving friend, to exclaim, ''see you, in London next week!' European scenery has fascination for many of our people. One of means must travel abroad. Hundreds are sight seeing, to-day, in foreign lands who at home live in the shadow of Bun ker hill, and have, perhaps, never climb. ed that monument, nor sailed up the