St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-10-21

HOW 10 KEEP WARAA.
A Few Hs1e, 70 E,ahss Weasa - EnvW
what eamner1eooly II.
There are two o. three wsys IN which
women can render ihcir state daring
hot weather even more purgstoriaA
than it is by itself One excellent Plan.
II they wish to enjoy the cxperi>uce OF
the natives of the tropics. Is 10 eonsois
the Thermometer With regularity. TO
Ay 70 Il on waking and every hour Of
the day thereafter and to note with
gloomy forebodings the upward and
onward course of the mercury viii
make even . healthy woman. feel that
death from spontaneous combustion 10
not fsr distant. - 81 : -
Another excellent plan to follow +
one really pines to feel the heat In all
its intensity is to begin the day by an
nouncing to the family that this
promises 70 be the warmest day 90 fsr
this season." To follow mp that an
nouncement by . careful study of the
list Of deaths in the morning newspa-
per will add about Eve degrees TO the
temperature. The sufferers from sum
stroke and exhaustion should be- ot-
tentively marked, and then the list Of
deaths from diseases that flourish best
in dog days .f.e< ,s ~
The woman who is determined to
know summer 1t its worst should fol-
low ND the dissemination Of the cheer
full ''city mortality"-news by reading
the encouraging expert reports on the
state of the lake water. She must not
allow herself to Be side-tracked by any
suggestions rs to the propriety Of boil
ing all the drinking water, but must
simply anticipate plague, pestilenee
and famine. She can also become .
little warmer by the effort of violent
invective against those who have tho
care of the water supply. She will not
know who they are peshaps, hut the
invective can be all the more heated
and heating on that account.
II 1t the same time she is reading the
paper she il also eating breakfast
suitable for February Of oatmeal and
oream, broiled ham and eggs, mufins
and coffee. she win find her worst fears
about the advancing heat realized after
the meal. II she should have had wa
tefmelon or eantelcupe on the Ice, q
. dish of berries, an QDelette light -
foam, and glass of iced coffee with .
roll, the summer day would Be robbed
Of some Of its horror. So she should
carefully avoid such repast
Then. in her desire for air, she
should open the windows and shutters
on the side of the house where the sum
light pours in. In an hour or two the
rooms will be a a,good baking temper
ature and will be able to point out to
her household how farsighted were
her surmises concerning the kind 06 .
day. II she should keep the eastern
windows closed and the western ones
omen In the forenoon and vice vesa in
the afternoon there would h danger
that her rcpution for prophecy would
suffer.
The woman who il really anxioas b
know ewhat . summer day may b
made will seat herself in . rocker. -
soon ~ she has attended TO her house-
hold duties and she will rock vigor-
ouiay.i This form Of exercise will make
Gwarmar than che would ,otherwise
1HSe been, II she arms herself with ,
large fan and waves that back and
forth with energy and force the rock
|in1 chair will be nueh aided IN its
Whining work. sssE
SThen every good wife and mother can
Increase the temperature visibly By ,
1swwell-choscn suppositions concern
ih9 the fate of her husband and sons.
II her small boy disappears for IN hour
she can picture him on swimming In
some forbidden creek. where he will
uudoabtedly lose his life. She can inn
aGine him eourting death BY playing
ssprisoncr's base under the MONDAY
sky. She can be sure, in her wifely
sollcitude, that her husbond's once il
An oven-lilke place, and that he il even
then succumbing TO the heat In real
ity her son will have discovered tho
coolest spot in the neighborhood, and
will be stretched ont st his ease ON tho
erasa' And her husband. -divested Of
unnecessary incumbrances in the line
Of clothes, will have forntten AL about
the temperature in his Nefl-sentilated
Office. hut these snxieties will help
maAe the day . true summer day for
her. -, .l p, NJ - Aa.
II, ON tho other hand, . woman
wishes 70 escape such knowledge Of
the heat she will do none Of these
things. She will arise while il ID ret
cool to get whatever work and shop
ping she has to do done. And she will
make very little suffice. She will sb.
solutely decline t. hear Of the victims
q the heat, but will read oaly The Sri-
est of summer novels. She will see To
Il that her drinking water is boiled and
filtered, and win psy verylittle alton
tion to microhe scareA She vii eat .
rood deal Of cool fruit and very little
meat She will cool the rooms By hav-
in9 blocks Of ice to hold her ADwers.
such Is usually sdorn the dinner table.
She will let her children 50 barefoot.
and she win dress very coolly herself.
Bat she will miss . fEetas9e Of purge
tuy."-N. Y. World.
"A fAmoas subject a tie saltan Of
Turkey aisd . short time ago in
Adrianople. He was Hadshi Achmed
Ixzet Pssha, govefnor-general Of tho
Black Sea prtvines, and . great proteee
Of :his sovereign. Il was his custom
when obliged 70 give his Hand to .
Christian - wash Il upou Withdrawal
in the presence Of the GuesE Further
than this. II any part a his clothing
happsnod- 70 stoueA The white faced
Sorsigner" TIE Offending gaxDest was
never worn again
There rseently did q O1ssgo