Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-28
HOW TO KEEP COOL.
Also How to Keep Hot-SOme Valua-
bic Hints Not by a Prominent
Physician.

The way to keep cool is to keep cool.
Though this savors of the old recipe for
resumption, it is good medicine. But
first, there are good many ways not to
keep cool One of these is to talk about
the weather all the time. Don't fail to
say "Pheww or els it," etc. Mop your
face, neck and arms vigorously. Friction
or rubbing always increases heat, and
that is what you are after. Be afraid of
taking exercise. Don't move unless it is
absolutely necessary, not even in the cool
of the morning or evening. Exercise
would tend to reduce your flesh and to
make the skin healthy and natural in its
action. But that isn't what you want
You want to be hot. Begin in the spring
to carry sunshade and avoid exercise.
Don't allow Yourself to progress with the
season. Try to be too nice and delicate
for any USE Don't try to acustom your
self to heat. You might get little
brown, and that would be awful. Eat
heartily, especially of meats, gravies and
pastries. Gorge yourself. The more you
overtax your digestive organs the hotter
they will make it for you, and it is to be
hot that you are aching. Drink every
thing, especially beer or alcoholic drinks.
They all interfere with digestion and
stimulate the brain Artificial stimula
ton of the brain is a good thing to make
one hot. If you use sufficient stimulant
YOU can get "bilin'" and this is a very
happy state, as every one knows who has
tried it.
Perhaps you want to keep cool. Ii so,
don't battle, except your hands and face,
oftener than once in three or four weeks.
1t is too much trouble, and besides, there
is danger of taking cold. BY abstaining
from this luxury you will not only save
time and money, but you will grow
heavier and you will not perspire much.
The pores will be choked up with dirt land
that will stop perspiration, the natural,
steady, every day action of the porous
system. No man wants to perspire all
the time. But when you do get warm
you will succeed in perspiring like
thunder. 1t will come like a deluge
That is what you want To keep cool, the
battle, and then when a warm wave
comes you can have the soil over your
whole surface nicely irrigated 1t is so
W lldNC vi
ton run from your neck down into your
stockings.
In addition to the no-bath treatment,
wear heavy underwear Put your faith
in the old saying that heavy flannels
absorb the perspiration and make you
cool. These undergarments cling to you
like brother. They get damp and
heavy and "sticky" This is delightful.
They adhere so closely to the skin that no
air can reach the cuticle. This also pre-
vents your taking cold. BY keeping the
air out they also keep the heat in. You
can't radiate. Your hand or face keeps !
cool not because it perspires, but because
there is nothing to prevent radiation of |
the animal heat from those parts of your |
body. But you are not putting your !
faith in radiation. You believe in per-
spiration. Your doctrine is plenty of !
drink to perspire, and plenty of good |
flannel to take up the perspiration. !
stand near hot stove and YOU |
will perspire doubly; then put on two /
sets of 1annels or horse-blanket, and |
there YOU are You have increased the |
dose, and, of course, you are twice as cool |
as before. The man who wears no under
and has his shirts starched stiff !
so that they do not wilt down and hug !
his skin all over, and who is thus venti-
lated in every part of his body-this man
looks cool, he says he is cool, and he
ought to be cool. But don't believe him
he must be lying. He can't be cool /
without perspiring, and he doesn't seem
to perspire Besides, he bathes frequently, |
and you know that is contrary to doc
trine. Furthermore, how can he be eX-
pected to know anything. He doesn't
talk about the weather, nor ask every
body he sees how hot it is. He attends
to his business, and acts as cool as a
cucumber all the time. He doesn't watch |
the thermometer or spend hall his time |
wi hing he was at some alleged cool sum-
where the only cool thing is
the way in which the hotel cashier figures
up your bill. He doesn't even drink beer |
or cocktails, and he is certainly no |
on hot weather.
Don't fail to grumble ateverything and |
everybody. Be cross all the time and |
Complain of your wife, the |
children, your employers, employees or
associates. Get mad upon the slightest
Getting ''hot in the collar
is sure way to keep cool. That's, you'll
have to "cool off, some time, and when
you cool off you'll be cooler than you