St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-12
THE ST PAUL DAILY GLOBE SATURDAY MORNING. JULY L. 1884

in city home than travelling about visiting
various resorts of pleasure and recreation to
be found at the seu-side, at springs, lakes and
mountain retreats and ocean VOYAGES
Fashion has much to doin this summer jour
neyng 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
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 enioyments. ''As 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 SUBJ
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 aud 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 ii would be sup
posed that, in this period of the year, health in
glad it is not So since there toiling thou
sands who can leave only for day at a time, and
whose home in the city must be constant III
the summer as i'll 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
made there is often breach of the healthy
regularity of home life. and indulgence that do
harm to bodily vigor, Surely recreation is good;
put the only wise ways of taking it do 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, i'll which the city author
tiles, as well as 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 all Accommodations of the house
hold must be thoroughly removed, 80 that, at
this season, there is not only extra house
cleaning, but yard and street cleaning. Then
great care must be taken,. during the summer,
when matter so 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 chidre
come to the common thble at too early an ageh
and are fed with the things provided for older,
Oatmeal rico and frpa all Qhlps nd
fresh fruits, eaten in moderation, are
always good. Its very noticeable how mothers
who have q well ordered system, and have con-
troll over their children, preserve them, while in
families where proper care as to food Is not I'M
derstood, the excessive evils of wrong supply. or
of over-eating, manifest. As n 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, 1t
Is to be realized that these often excited by
improper foods, or nordinate 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 inclines to cling to surfaces and to remain
nearer the ground it is wise to choose sleeping
apartments in upper stories. This is well 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 or 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 our variable climate, there
is often need of a change of dress during the day
so as 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 one is sick because of the
! indscretion of single meal, or of an unwise ex-
posure. 1t is not so often ignorance as thought
essness. Russell and others have shown what
great probabilities OF good health attach to city
life, if only there is proper adaptation and use
of those facilities which, in respects, cities
afford better than the country.
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