The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
WARM DAYS.
Timely Hints for the Summer
Months.
Disfigurlng Yourselves by Gloss
Clipping of the Hair,
Not the Thin g.

If you would keep cool, avoid political
and religious discussions, eat fruits and
vegetables. and be moderate in all things.
Blessed are they who can afford un-
limited laundry bills, for often changing
of tie clothing is good.
A great benefaction to mankind is wait
ing to be performed by some one who
shall perfect the preparation and organize
the popular sale of the delicious varieties
of icei fruit drinks with which 'bars,
might be stocked. For our own part, We
agree with many others in confessing to
wonderful summer virtues in the lemon
backed with Ice and sugar.
A writer giving hints for the summer
says: ITO most people it is an insur-
mOuntable difficulty to keep comfortably
cool, by day or night. The best hint on
this point is contained in the word evap
Grafton. The cooling effect of breeze
or fan is nothing but the effect of the
expansion of the moisture on the skin
into vapor-absorbing nearly thousand
degrees of heat in the change-as the dry.
ing breeze sucks it up and carries it away.
If you have not a breeze make one, or
have one made for you. There is not
popular notion more fallacious, or more
common, than that fan only makes you
hotter. So does breeze-seemingly-i
it gives up in laziness or encouragement
like your fan. Perseverance is equally
necessary in both, and alike satisfactory.
Keep up the pneumatic evaporation as
far as possible.
Too much hair in summer is uncom-
Portable; but so is too little. Our young
great mistake in disiguring Themselves
to the guise of monkeys to keep their
heads cool. The moisture that flows out
from the skin through the hair, drawn
actively outward by the active evapora-
ton due to its extreme diffusion, carries
off heat from the head much faster than
the air can take it from bald pate, or
from the equivalent of bald pate that
we so often see through the short hair,
beaded with pvrspiration. The bald head
is mopped continually, where the head
properly endued with hair is if not CON
tined) by far the most comfortable part
of the person.
Much Is said against ice water, and no
doubt justly-for many persons. For
many Others, water in summer cannot be
made too cold, and if but moderately
cooled is not only unsatisfactory but IN
wholesome, in times of extreme heat
This Is partly because greater quantity
of such water is demanded by the burning
mouth than the mites final absorbents can
make away with Drink should pass
quickly out of the stomach. 1t is the
experience of some, at least, that
a certain inverse proportion of
temperature between the system and the
drink facilitates rapid absorption. That
is, the more one is heated the colder the
drink should be-or else the hotter. This
seems strange, and we do not pretend to
account for it or to Justify it, out merely
state experimentation is possibly alb
normal At all events, the reader can
Judge for himself by his own experience.
70 avoid sudden shocks of cold without
or within, when heated, is undoubtedly
good policy for every one. Hot drinks
have for some beneficial effect, through
profuse perspiration, relieving the body
of more heat than they introduce"