The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-08-19
HOW TO KEEP COOL.

A Few Timely Suggestions About
Keeping Cool During the Hot Days
Of August from One who Keeps Cool.
These long summer days the sun
pours down his heated rays with lavish
generosity, and the merry mercury goes
to greet them with a merry hop. skip
and jump that will soon explode the
theory that "there's always room at the
top" unless thermometer tubes are
heightened. While the sun and mercu-
ry are having their little picnics. poor hu-
rnanity is bathed in perspiration, strug-
Cling with palmetto fan, madly mop
ping it's crimson face, and namely ask
Ing. ''ls it hot enough for you?" At
such = time as this an expedition in
search Of the North pole could have no
terrors and dwindles into base holi-
day excursion.
How to keep cool becomes the all
absorbing question, and suggestions are
almost as numerous rs are men who can
tell you just how to cure . cold or =
sprained ankle. On one occasion gen.
tleman, who had gone to sleep with .
mustard plaster and walked up with .
blistered back, tried every. remedy at
hand in the house without relief, and
at last. in an agony of suffering, sent for
\ doctor. After being gone for what
seemed an intcrminable time. the sef-
want returned with the message, put
cream on it." and the suffering man who
had been writhing for an hour under
application Of cream, was almost be.
side himself.
To have some one give us as an un-
failing formula for keeping cool . sys-
tenn of living, under which We daily
}swelter, is almost as exaspcrating as the
cold cream prescription in the foregoing
instance, and pcrceptibly clevatcs our
temperature. But while in such wealth
er AZ We have had this summer it is i'm
possible to keep cool all the time, still it
is not difficult to prevent suffering from
the heat. If you can't be cool it is we'll
to DO as cool as you can, and a few sug-
gestions are appended below, which, If
followed, will enable you to bear with
compiaccncy the fierce heat Of the
pleasant weather.
Horace Greedy says: "The way to
resume is to resume" and we may pro
mulgate as = theory equally simple and
efacacious the way to keep cool is to
keep cool.
The mind has an immediate and ALL
powerful effect upon the condition Of
the body, and nothing so heats person
as to get excited and to fume when any
thing goes wrong. Let you life be qui.
Ct. Keep cool head and your body
will not suffer with the heat. If you
hear that . msn says he is going 10 mur-
der you about something you have said
or done, don's worry yourself into fever
heat in anticipation Of the interesting
event, but glance back over the years of
your existence and think how often that
threat has been made and how few times
it was ever carried out. Don't allow
yourself to get in passion. II your
collar button fall, it is sure to roll under
the bureau. If you put your shirt on
and find you can't get your head
through, then quietly remove it and un-
button the collar, but don't tear it to
finders aed swear that will not i'm
prove the shirt, and will make you so
hot that the water would sizz il you got
under. shower bath. In all cases hold
your temper and be perfectly serene
in short. keep cool.
THE BATH AND DIET.
Next to keeping cool head, two OF
the most important agents in the war
with old Sol are tho bath and diet.
| tn this sultry and oppressive weather
the hot bath is Of all others the most
cooling. No matter how heated the
system, water a. hot as it can possibly
be endured with soap and rough wash.
cloth, IL the safest and most efficient re-
lief. TO prevent any enervsting effects
take an instant's plunge in cool water.
Persons who live sedentary life and
having no opportunity for taking needed
exercise. can overcome the dificultyAy
having . pair of light dumb bells in
their room and using them night and
morning. This exercise should be Ia
ken with the body stripped and with
the windows open so AZ to be as much
as possible in the open air. It shonld
not be violent or exhausting, but sufl-
cient TO sufficiently stretch the muscles.
AS soon as it is over take plunge in
cool water. If q bath tub is not accessi-
BILE then IN ordinary foot tub and bath
sponge will answer the purpose, If yeu