The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

of temperature in her kitchen, and my
! husband liked the reduced coal bill. But
our gas bill wasn't a bit larger than be-
1 fore, for except in the kitchen, we almost
forebore to use gas at all. Every night
we dined by the light of four candles,
! under green shades, and lighted ourselves
! to bed by them. Candle flames are neither
so intense nor do they exhaust the oXy
! gen as gaslight, and the Railways we
! lighted with tapers set floating in bowls
OF water
SWEPT BY OCEAN BREEZES.'
Since those first years we have had
! electricity introduced in the house, and
! that, you know, is the coolest light one
can use Along with the electric light we
! have turned electricity into the kitchen,
and our meals are cooked at less waste
4 of heat than ever, but the triumph of all
my scheming to keep cool was an ar
rangement l prepared for the dinner ta-
/ BILE. Right in the midst of the board
/ had placed every evening a big glass
! bowl, holding a scent block of ice, and
! then within two inches of it l suspended
one of those which, when wound up,
whirls back and forth. Well, twice dur
ing the meal. the maid would wind up the
fan that as the cold air rose off the block
1 of ice whiSked it round the table.
1T isn't the least eXaggeration to say
that We felt almost as if swept by ocean
breeZes, so fresh did the air feel in that
room; and since we have had electric
{ !
rugged up an electric fan over the table,
that, vibrating over the block of ice, keeps
the dining room at almost any tempera-
ture we like.
A QUESTION OF DIET.
But, dear mel I didn't stop at these
devices for keeping cool, for next after
reducing the temperature of the house 1
spent a great deal of force considering
summer diet, and if people who stop ali
the season in town would only recognize
1t, what they eat cools or infames the
blood in most amazing way. A good
housekeeper, for example, will never let
her supply of lemonade run low. She will
serve it all three meals and only at
breakfast without sugar. Iced tea is nice,
but it's shockingly indigestible, however;
fruit syrups will certainly fill its place.
Two tablespoonfuls of raspberry syrup in
glass of crushed ice and water is more
than a delicious cooling drink for tea and
luncheon; it's wholesome and nourishing,
as well, and in the afternoon, when a
cross, dusty, hot, tired husband sticks
his key in the front door, no meekly
sweet words of wifely greeting will soothe
ms ruffled crest like big glass of crush
ed Ice hlled with ginger ale. 1t eXertS at
once beneficent influence on both his
morals and manners, and if he knows it's
waiting for him, he won't stop off for
something at the club.
FOR BATH AND BED.
Give him dinner of boiled meats,
vegetables, green salad and fruit desserts
or cold buildings, and keep on the shelf
in the bath room big bottle of toilet
vinegar. dash of this in a tub of water
supplies an infinitely refreshing bath. and
counteracts the unpleasant greasiness of
ones skin; while on nights when the Their
mometer seems fairly stuck in the top
of the tube, go to bed with couple of
rubber bags filled with cold water. Tuck
one under your left arm and one under
the back of your neck, and what the
thermometer is>saying need make no diff
ference in your nights rest.
Since the hot weather of 1896 set in
I've seen excellent devices by which upon
the touch of a button little electric fan
at the head of the bed could be set whirl-
ing. This does effectually conquer the
heat and stagger the mosquitoes. if one
can grow accustomed to the rush of air.
but the cold water bags are deliciously
cooling, and I know of one woman, strick-
en- down with fever, whose family saved
her by some schemes that are worth i'm
itating by those who can afford it in hot
weather When she fell i'll at her town
house the thermometer was doing stints
of ninety mine and hundred degrees in
the shade. so the family lifted her off