Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-08-01
MDIA's HOT MONTHS.
Midsummer Life in Calcutta, and How It
,.S Is Made To1erable.

Midsummer Life in Calcutta, and How IT
,.1 IL Made To1eranle.
Up country the heat is especially try
ing, and there a few months when to
venture out in the sunshine, even with
a solar topee for a hat, and an umbrella
also, would be nothing short of suicide.
Every summer good many people die
just from riding on the railway in car
riages cooled by all kinds Of artificial
appliances In looking over the gov
eminent weather statistics / find that the
thermometer frequently goes up to $50
degrees in the shade during the hot
months, and to 1870 in the sun. Think
Of that, ye that complain of the heat
which occasionally besieges the states
at home. This climate seem to be the
one thing which is fatal to the highest
development of this wonderful country.
I have been interested in examining
I some of the make. shifts which human
| ingenuity has devised to render life
tolerable during the blistering days of
an Indian summer. FIRST Of all, there
! are the punkahs, which are kept
swinging with considerable effect, Then
there are porous mats, called kuss- kuss
tatties, which usually contain some
fragrant roots. They are kept satur-
ated with cold water, and placed where
the wind viii blow through them as it
enters the house. In the absence Of
wind, punkahs are so placed as to fur
| nish breeze to pass through them.
These tatti- mats are then placed in the
| windows of the railway carriages.
Most Of the ice used here is now manu-
featured. Up to four or five years ago
| it vas brought Oh ships from Boston
and sold for from four to six cents per
pound. Although the manufactured
ice only lasts half as long as the natural
ice, il can be made SO. much cheaper
now that it has driven the Boston ice
out of the market. Some OF the Their
mantidotes, as they are called, are quite
ingenious and successful. A very pop
ular one consists of a winnoWing machine
placed in the window, surrounded ] by
mats which are kept constantly wet by
an endless succession Of small tin cups
The evaporation Of the water cools
the breeze, so that 1t is
alleged that sometimes people take
cold by sitting in the drnught on q
scorching hot day. However, all these
plans are but make-shifts at the best,
and the Yankee who can construct 81
tunnel through from here to the north
pole has both fame and fortune await
/ ing him. Will the Ohio man step for
lward2 Such q climate forces the tray
e1ler to practically reverse the ordinary
methods Of procedure in the matter Of
sleep, diet, and other natural opera
Itions. We rise early, eat chote -hadiei-
he, or little break fast, consisting ct q
cup of coffee and q slice Of toast, and
then 10 aight seeing. At 1870 O'Clock
comes hadieiriie, OF big breakfast. The
heat Of the day has by this time set "a,
! and 4 nap 81 4 couple Of hours y a on
Ider. At d o'clock ttniffiin Is served, 9
lunch consulting Of bread and butter
1.-THE latter Wit hout q particle of salt IN
i til fruit, cheese and jan. Dinner is
served at II o'clock III tthe evening, and
lis the most subs tantia1 meal Of the day.
| Tea u tlliisbursed IS 81 seennly and nm
seeaaly hours the day between
4 times. Cor. Inter Ocean