Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19
OF KEEPING COOL
Government Weather sharps Give Hints to
the P~respiring Millions.
SOME TALK ABOUT SUMNER WEATHER
Geniuscs Taking Out Pat
ents on Hot Weather Devices
lee Water Bed md Pillow
Tips on Food.

The weather is talked about daily by
900, 600, 600 persons, says the New York
Herald. Our government meteorologists
have lately made some interesting revela-
tions about the effects of weather upon the
sensations-why we feel 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 the reading of the
ordinary thermometer The difference which
we feel is really the difference in the tenn
p%erature of the perspiration evaporating
against the skin. Just as the evaporation of
ammonia makes water freeze, the evapora-
tion of our perspiration makes us cooler or
warmer. This temperature which we actu-
ally feel is known as our sensible tempera-
ture. If we want to know how hot we feel
not how hot the weather feels-according
to this new theory, we must take our read
ings from a special form of thermometer,
whose bulb is always kept moist and in a
state of evaporation.
FACILITATE EVAPORATION.
Although the climate is much hotter in
southern Arizona than in Massachusetts,
persons living in these states are found
to feel hot TO about the same extent. The
dry air of arid regions like Arizona facili-
tates 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 where the air
is dry. BY applying the principle to mete-
geological 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 concerned, are west of the
continental divide and north of Arizona and
New Mexico.
Mans average food in twenty-four hours
is found to create a supply of heat which,
II applied to a steam engine, would lift a
pound through space for 6, 500, 900 feet. On
extremely hot days the avoidance of fats
and other heat degenerating food is on this
account advised.
1t is our duty to keep cool, not only our
duty to ourselves, but to our neighbors and
the community in general, according to re-
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gists. Disease germs within our bodies are
believed by them to develop much more ex-
tensiyely IN the heat of summer than in the
GOODNESS OF winter. The human animal Is
found to be more criminal and more liable
to insanity during hot than during cold
weather.
INVENTORS r STRIVING.
OF course. the ideal plan is to have a
cooler in the cellar, connecting in summer
with the pipes and hues employed for dis
tributing heat in winter. Successes will UNI
doubtedly result in utilizing evaporation
processes, which may be operated as cheaply
as heaters in winter.
A western inventor recently patented a
scheme by which, he claims, he can artih-
cool a whole community at little ex-
pense, At certain intervals he would erect
towers, like windmill towers, each
having an electric trolley wire running to
the top. The wire transports peculiarly
made bombs TO a chute at the top, where
hey are exploded by electricity. The bombs
l~iquehed carbonic acid gas, which |