The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-22
HOW TO KEEP WARM.
a Few Rules to Enable Women to Know
What Summer Really Is.

A Few Rules to Enable Women to Know
What Summer Really Is.
There are two Or three ways in which
women can render their state during
| hot weather even more purgatorial
than it is by itself. One excellent plan,
if they wish to enjoy the experience Of
the natives Of the tropics is to consult
the thermometer with regularity. To
fly to it on waking and every hour Of
the day thereafter and to note with
gloomy forebodings the upward and
onward course of the mercury will
make even a healthy woman feel that
death from spontaneous com bustion is
not far. distant.
Another excellent plan to follow if
one really pines to feel the heat in ali
its intensity,,is to begin the day by an
nouncing to the family that this
promises to be the warmest day so far
this season." To follow up that an
nouncement by careful study Of the
list of deaths in the morning newspa-
per will add about five degrees to the
temperature. The sufferers from sun
stroke and exhaustion should be at
deaths from diseases that flourish best
in dog days.
The woman who Is determined to
know summer at it's worst should fol-
low up the dissemination of the cheer
ful 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 as to the propriety of boil
ing all the drinking water, but must
simply anticipate plague, pestilence
and famine. She can also become a
little warmer by the effort of violent
invective against those who have the
care of the water supply. She will not
know who they are, perhaps, but the
invective can be all the more heated
and heating on that account.
If at the same time she is reading the
paper she is also eating a breakfast
suitable for February of oatmeal and
cream, broiled ham and eggs, mullins
and coffee, she will find her worst fears
about the advancing heat realized after
the meal. If she should have had wa
terlnelon or canteloupe off the ice, or
a dish of berries, an omelette light as
foam, and glass of iced coffee with a
roll, the summer day would be robbed
of some of it's 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 sun
light pours in. In an hour or two the
rooms viii be at agOod baking temper
AZURE and will be able to point out to
her household how farsighted were
her surmises concerning the kind of
day. If she should keep the eastern
windows closed and the western ones
open in the forenoon and vice vera in
the afternoon there would be danger
that her repution for prophecy would
suffer.
The woman who is really anxious to
know owhat summer day may be
made will seat herself in rocker as
soon as she has attended to her house
hold duties and she will rock vigor-
ously This form of exercise will make
her warmer than she would otherwise
have been. If she arms herself with
large fan and waves that back and
forth with energy and force the rock
inc chair will be much aided IN its
warming work.
Then every good wife and mother can
Increase the temporal Gre visibly by
few well-chosen suggestions concern
ing the fate OF her husband and sons.
If her small boy disappears for an hour
she can picture him off swimming in
some forbidden creek. where he will
undoubtedly lose his life. She can i'm
agine him counting death by playing
prisoners base under the MONDAY
Sky. She can be sure, in her wifelv
solicitude. that her husbands Office is
an oven-liEe place. and that he is even
then succumbing 10 the heat In real
itv her son will have discovered the
coolest spot in the neighborhood. and
will be stretched ont at his ease on the
grass And her husband. Invested of
unnecessary membranes in the line
Of clothes, viii have forgotten all bout
the temperature in his well-ventilated
office but these anxieties Will helD
make the day true summer dav for
her.
If, on the other hand a woman
wishes TO escape such knowledge Of
the heat she viii do none OF these
things She viii arise while il is vet
cool 10 get whatever work and shop
ping she has to Go done. And she will
make very little suffice. She viii alb
solutelv decline to hear OF the victims
Of the heat. but Will read only the eri-
est Of summer novels She win see 10
i. that her drinking water Is boiIeda and
filtered. aud win pay very little atten-
ton to microbe scarcs. She viIl eat
good deal of cool fruit and very little
meat. She viii cool the rooms by hav-
ing blocks OF ice TO hold her 4lor-ers.
such as usually adorn the dinner table.
She viii let her children 20 barefoot.
and she will dress very coo,lv herself.
But she win miss r foretas.c O: purga-