The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-26
HOW TO KEEP COOL.

New York Mail and Express.

Summer Endurable.
New York Mail and Express.
Don't drink whisky. brandy or raw spirits
OF any kind at any hour, day or night If you
must drink beer, do so in moderation in the
cool of the evening. Do all your drinking in
moderation.
Drink soda water, lemonade mineral waters
or If little stmulant is wanted land a little
is very agreeable in really hot weather) drink
claret and water or claret and ice; put dash
of Santa Kruz in your lemonade, or indulge
in an occasional sherry cobbler. Juice of
lines is better than juice of lemons. Above all,
don't drink raw ice water In the tropics the
people put sugar into ice water a light cake of
sugar and white of egg being sold in the saloons
for the purpose. But that is an insult to ones
palate, and degradation of the stomach. There
Is more sense in mixing oatmeal in ice water,
though that is a feeble beverage. But the moral
of all these devices is, don't drink clear ice wa
ter 1t shocks the stomach, and the end thereof
is worse than the beginning.
A very cooling drink, popular in the far South
is tamarlnd water 1t is made by letting tama-
rind soak in a jar Of water. Drink the water
and add more until it loses the distinct taste of
the tamarinds. This cools the blood, and keeps
the digestive organs in order. You can get tam
arinds at any big grocery or of any good fruit
erer.
&Eat tamarinds also In fact, eat any slightly
acid fruit. Oranges, pineapples, berries, plums,
peaches, apples and pears are good. But remeIn-
Der that where oranges and pineapples grow the
people do not eat them. They suck them and
discard the pulp which is very indigestlble and
has no good qualities. Bananas and cocoanuts
in the condition in which we get them here are
not fit to eat Don't eat too much. AS to eat
ing, live on light summer fare and do not eat too
much Two square meals all that can be
wisely taken in day, if one wishes to keep cool
satisfying breakfast and good dinner, eaten
after sunset, would be a programme a
New Yorker could easily substitute for
the morning coffee, noon break
fast and evening dinner of the tropics Re
nounce sausages, pork, ham fried eggs, fried
cakes. liver and bacon. cabbage, and great dishes
of steaks, chops or solid meat in any form as the
basis Of meal. Instead eat omelettes, soft
boiled eggs, fish of any kind, prepared in any
way, salads, soups, rice, oatmeal, nominy, tender
vegetables, toast, and SO on, for the list is long
AS to clothing put aside cotton and merno
underwear and put on Lsle thread. Wear
loose. thin outer garments, made of duck, drill,
silk, seersucker jeans, or any other light and
cool material. 1t need not be white. White
is Objectionable in many ways All these goods
are now made in imitation Of cloth patterns.
After or before dinner, if the night is cool,
apparel of this sort may be exchanged for a suit
of light weight cloth, made up without Innings.
Those. who cannot afford two suits would do well
to buy the latter, of course, though a suit of
seersucker of fashionable cut and stylish appear
ance can be had in Broadway, ready made for
$50, or to order for $l0-a small price to pay
for threee or four months of GOODNESS and com