The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-18
HINTS FOR A SUMNER DIET,
THAT ONE NAY KEEP WE'LL IND CONF
PORTABLE 7HROUGH NOT UE8THER,
Instead OF Meats. Sweets, Pastry, nnd Cold
Drink-, Eat Fish, Eggs, Brcnd, Fruits,
and Vegetables. and Drink Hot water.

ana Vegetables. and nrink bot water
suitable diet can do gront deal 10 make
life moro enjoyable during hot spell In
many households there Is littlc change IN diet
during the year so far rs the main part OF lt
goes. Tho thousands vi men who have no
homes and breakfast and dine nj restaurants
and club houses get In the habit Of ordering
the same things day after day and Of catI'-:
and drinking at their meals almost irrespective
of the weather. Hero Is whore q little knnwl-
edge of physiology would come in TO good al
vantage to make IL castor to lear VI against
the hot. sultry days.
Everybody knows that certain foods tend 10
produce heat, aud that in general way fruits
and fresh vegetables are cooling: bat they do
not realize how easy 1t is to apply these laws
of physiology to the benefit Of II mans per-
sonnl comfort. The natives OF countries which
are always hot and of the countries which are
always cold have naturally drihcd into the
diet which is best adapted 20 their needs. Tho
Esuuimaux would have littlo appreciation OF
stra wberfios, pineapple. lettuce and othor
vegetables. evon II they could get them while
whale blubber and seal fat would 30 n diet
wholly unsuited to tho negroes under the
equator. The people Of the United States. and
particularly tho reoplo OF the city o! New
York have the widest choice OF cheap food
products that there Is They hive irosh vcgo-
tables from early in tho 81 ring. when tho
trains bring them from Florida. until well on
in tho fall. when the most Northern vegetable
gardens have ceased to produce. They nave
all kinds of meats and all kinds Of fruits at
low prices always easy to get
1t is so easy to lot housekeeping get into
rut and to fall into the habit OF having SUBJ
stantaly the Same things to cnt every day.
especially for breakfast. TINT only small
fraction OF the population Of New York take
advantage OF tho methods nature brings to
their doors to make summer life more COM
Portable. They eat meats in the summer two
or three times day. Just as they do in tho
coolest part OF winter. They have etnrchy
vegetables for breakfast. and they dtak
sweet drinks. The man VIII H. in the habit Ut
putting three Jumps OF sugar in n cur Of coffee
In the cold winter time keeps on putting ~
many Jumps In the coffee in tho summer. IL
he is in tho habit OF eating II hearty meat
luncheon in the winter he does the same thing
in tho summon. There Is little change in tho
amount that he eats except tho change that 10
fore ed on him by loss OF Rprc,it" and deprcs-
sion consequent upon n heavy die, in hot
weather
Nature itself suggcsts to n man tho proper
diet for tho different season, Of the year.
Nature has so arranged things that begin
ming with the early srrng. the frs; traits and
vegetables to mature have medicinal cfIcrt
on the system TO make it throw OF tho results
OF the heavier winor diet. to upen the pores.
and to mako the various functions work moro
freely. Instead Of adopting this suggestion Of
nature that with the first rirening OF vegeta-
bios in the sprint, large quantities OF them
should be eaten. the majority Uf people neg
lect natures hint and take medicine instead.
euro that tired feplipr" which comes eyerv
spring. the liver mills. the spring purges. and
hing ri OF that sort n de a ell ny
MS improper substitutes for the natural
food which nature uroduccs at that srason.
The spring = tired feeling which almost cvorV
one has at that scason comes because tho
system is cloggod and natures remedies have
not been taken
nature nimayS n.hts cure TO pu" n., 'noSo
VINO arc 'naueh,sse 10 ner "n'.S' In" sum,
nrs so sons mu mI Io un winter
the system through m improper diet. Nature
and o mans constitution alike suggest ths
diet and the behavior foi the summer which.
II adopted. Will make the warm. long days
%orkihs h"ru anu Is "ceusloineu 10 me"1
three times day during the winter; 1t may he
summer. Once day is enough. and h, should
not eat greasy meat. This is good advice the
mans system Graves fatty dict. fried int is
not the best shape to furnish 1t in. Tho meat
should DO well cooked: little, Of it is enough.
The evening dinner is naturally the time for
| It,. for then the day IS cooler and man can
idle away an hour or two after the reras,
ameioratrg by rest the heat and increase
In temperature which tho digestion OF meat
usually causes.
II a man has not accustom his system I?
taking meat until the lack, Of meat would
max o him ILL., it would lie vol for him to adopt
an almost exc usively vegetarian diet during
| the crisp days of fall Eggs lean bacon. spring
| chick ems. and Ash during the spring and sum
mer should take the place OF ne hcnvy meats
| All the fats q man needs in tho summer can Ge
| taken In the system in the form OF vegetable
| fruits.
Sweet drinks OF any kind. drinks with alco-
| hol in them and ice water are not cooling IN
their ultimate effects. ANYTHING Win sugarin