St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-12
GLOBE SATURDAY MORNING. JULY T.


rage health and comfort can be secured, even
in a city home than travelling about, visiting
various resorts of pleasure and recreation to
be found at the seB-side, at springs, lakes and
| mountain retreats and ocean voyages.
| Fashion has much to lin this summer jour
neying and junketing, and especially stimu-
lates voyages to Europe. Many thousands Of
Americans visit the countries OF European
the warm season, and lavish on the hostel
| ries, boarding houses, lines of travel, and
ira lesmen of the cities and countries Of the old
world some three or more millions of dollars
every year. These European places of pleas
ure resorts and recreation, now look on their
| American custom as their chief source Of
| income
| Home made real comfort, health, strength
and life itself, are wasted in these irregular
journeyings, and in giving up of all home
comfort and safeguards
| But it is useless to criticise this mode OF
procedure. The thousands of gay butterflies
of fashion, and birds of passage, must have
their day at whatever cost and expenditure OF
money, health or sacrifice of real home com
forts and enjoyments. GAS well be out OF
the world, as out Of the fashion, is the
motto of the pulsating, scattering crowds
that throng our hot-weather resorts of SO cal
| led pleasure We leave out of view here, the
moral or immoral influences that follow in
the train of this great, moving panorama of
| hot-weather fashionable life.
There are other thousands stay-at-homes,
forced to remain at their posts of duty and
labor, to keep the wheels of society and the
world moving, and to keep themselves and
families from beggary and want, and their
business from bankruptcy. For the consider
alton, benefit and comfort of such, we sub
join the following dissertation of well con-
sidered thoughts, suggestions and hints in
regard to summer health in Cities and the
wise and rational enjoyment of home life in
the thousands and tens of thousands Of
! households, where children are being reared
for usefulness and it is hoped for lives OF
virtue and happiness as well.
| IF we were to Judge only by the multitudes
| that rush from the cities to the mountains and
the seaside in the summer time, it would be sup
posed that. in this period of the year, health in
q city home is an impossibiity. Yet we are
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sands who can leave only for day at time, and
| whose home in the city must be constant in
| the summer in the winter More than all
this, it is transporting that many of those who re-
main, and know how to remain maintain good
and comfortable degree of health during the
| whole year. 1t is now noticed by physicians
! that typhoid and other fevers prevail in families
that have returned to city, after a summer alb
sence. in greater proportion than among the stay
| at-home population. In the changes that are
made, there is often breach Of the healthy
regularity of home life. and indulgence that do
harm to bodily vgor, Surely recreation is good; ;
but the only wise ways of taking it dc not apper-
tain to such life. Where circumstances pre-
vent us from the enjoyable change, how shall the
city summer life be rendered most healthful and
| pleasant?
First of all. there is to be that enforcement of
general sanitary police, in which the city author
ities as well US the individual must be active.
| You must see to it that, early in spring, proper
sanitary regulations carried out. The garb-
age and ashes and ali accumuatons of the house
| hold must be thoroughly removed, so that, at
| this season, there is not only an extra house
cleaning, but yard and street cleaning. Then
| great care must be taken, during the summer,
when matter easily decomposes, to have daily
removal, so that the air we breathe and the water
we drink may not be subjected to rapid contami-
nation Where this kind of cleanliness is insist
ed upon, and very prompt complaint made to or
of the health inspector, if there is delay, the
! air of the city is kept in much better condi-
| ton
Next, good attention must be given to our
! foods. During the hot months, meats, vegetables
and fruits undergo rapid change, Milk also
sours easily, and often is fed to small children,
70 as to become an irritant. Too often childre
! come to the common thble at too early an age
and fed with the things provided for older
! persons. Oatmeal, rice, and fresh vegetables and
| fresh fruits, eaten in moderation, are
always good. Its very noticeable how mothers
who have well-ordered system, and have con
| troll over their children, preserve them, while IN
families where proper care as to food is ,not un-
derstood, the excessive evils of wrong supply, or
of oyer-eating, are now manifest. AS rule,
meat is too largely consumed in hot weather.
| Many good meal can be made of cold mush and
milk, fried mush, or some of the prepared forms
| of cereal foods. As the chief tendency in sum
mer is to stomach and intestinal arrangement, it
| is to be realized that these are often excited by
improper foods or inordinate eating, or eating at
wrong periods, and so there is excess and its re-
| suits
In summer it is generally well to avoid sleep
| ing in the lower rooms of the house. As the air
| is more likely to contain organic matter, and as
| this incnes to cling to surfaces and to remain
nearer the ground, it is wise to choose sleeping
! apartments in upper stories. This is we'll under
stood by those who have to visit malarious coun-
tries in the simmer time.
The depressing power of heat is very great up
on most persons, and especially upon children.
Excessive play, or too much exposure to the
suns rays heated pavements is always I'M
wise. The habit of remaining indoors for two
or three hours during the excessive heat of the
day is excellent. In variable climate, there
is often need Of change OF dress during the day
so az to adapt ourselves to changing conditions of
! temperature. We are constantly impressed with
| what caution and prudence will do for us in the
| summer time. Many a one is sick because of the
indiscretion of a single meal or Of an unwise ex-
posure. 1t is not so often ignorance thought
lessness. Russell and others have shown what
great probabilities of good health attach TO city
life, if only there is proper adaptation and a use
| afford better than the country.