The Portland daily press., 1896-07-18
ART OF KEEPING COOL.
Hints for Perspiring Millions.

Hot Weather Devices-Fhe Water Bed
and Pillow-Tips on Food.
(From the New York Herald.)
The weather is talked about daily by
1850, 000 600 persons. Our government
meteorologists have lately made some in
teresting revelation, about the effects of
weather upon the sensations-why we
fael hot in summer and the best means
of evading the heat. Modern inventors
have likewise been energetic.
First-Why do we feel warm in sum
mer?
The meteorologists at the national
weather bureau lately revolutionized our
standards for measuring heat. We do
not feel cool or warm in proportion to
tine reading of the ordinary thermometer.
The difference which we feel is really the
difference in the temperature of the per-
SEPARATION evaporating against the skin.
Just as the evaporation of ammonia
makes water freeze, the evaporation of
our perspiration makes US cooler or
warmer. This temperature which we
actually feel is known as our sensible
temperature. If we want to know how
hot We feel-not how hot the weather
<feels-according to this DOW theory, we
must take our readings from a special
form of thermometer, whose bulb is al
ways kept moist and in state of evap-
Grafton.
FACILITATE EVAPORATION.
Although the climate is much hotter in
southern Arizona than in Massac husetts
persons living in these States are found
ITO feel hot TO about the same extent. The
dry air of arid regions like Arizona facil-
itates evaporation, and therefore makes
the body feel cooler than when in the
same atmospheric temperature stirred
by moist breezes. Therefore, moist air
is really what makes our bodies feel
warm, and in summer we should seek
those regions whers the air is dry. BY
applying the principle to meteorological
data it WAS recently found that those
places where persons suffer most from
the summer heat-in July, for example
are situated along the Gulf Of Mexico
and the South Atlantic coast The sea
air in these places is exceedingly moist,
and prevents rapid evaporation of the
perspiration. The coolest regions to visit
in summer, as far as this country is con-
cerned. are west of tho continental divide
and north of Arizona and New Mexico.
Mans average food in twenty-four
hours is found to create supply of heat
which, if applied to steam engine,
would lift a pound through space for
$500, 600 feet. On extremely hot days
the avoidance Of fats and other beat gem
Grating food is on this account advised.
1t is our duty to keep cool, not only
our duty to ourselves, But to our neigh
bors and the community in general, &C
oording to recent revelations made by
sanitary characteristics. Disease germs
within our bodies are believed by them
to develop much more extensively in the
heat of summer than in the coolpess OF
winter. The human animal is found to
be more criminal and more liable to in
sanity during hot than during cold
weather.
INVENTORS ARE STRIVING.
Of course the ideal plan is 10 have q
cooler in the cellar, connecting In sum
lner with the pipes and fues employed
AO4 AAnbAANGSAAS AlO-SO Al W4HtCIs QUIZ
oesses will undou btedly result in utiliz-
ing evaporation processes, which may be
operated as oheaply as heaters in winter.
a Western inventor recently patented
q scheme by which, he claims, he can
artihcially cool whole community at
little expense. At certain intervals he
would erect skeleton towers, like wind
mill towers each having an electric troll
ley wire running to the top. The wire
transports peculiarly made bombs to a
chute at the top where they ara exploded
By electricity. The bombs contain lique-
fed carbonic acid gas, which when lib
Grated will evaporate and severely chill
the surrounding atmosphere.
A Canadian inventor patents unique
system by which air passes through a
conservatory before being cooled and cir
cniated. By this means it is not only
purified by the natural processes of the
plant, but scented with 'violets. bya-
cinths or what not.
A Nashville citizen. IN substitution
for pavement sprinkling, would resort
to a scheme by which GOODNESS and san
itation might De Jointly ACCOMPLISHED.
He would line the streets On either side
with large pipes, just under the curb.
At short intervals these would contain
spouts flowing spreading streams upon
the concrete streets This system of
flushing jets being turned on at cert lin
times each day, it is claimed, would cool
the entire city, as we'll as cleanse the
streets.
An entsrprising Buckeye inventor re-
Gently patented continuance by which
any person suffering from the heat may
convert himself into living fountain of
cold crystal water. The contrivance
consists CT a looseIy-tltting collar of rub
Der and large basin or dish several feet
in diameter This collar fits over the
neck and shoulders 1t contains many
perforations on the under side The