The morning times., 1896-05-10
HOW TO KEEP COOL.
Dog Days Have No Terror for
Her Now.

The conscientious woman, who stays
all summer in town with her husband,
was telling how she managed to fight
health and resist the seductiOns OF sea
breeZes and mountain air.
1T all depends upon taking the proper
precautions" she began. dropping the
straws back into her empty soda water
glass. when all other women are pack
ing up their houses, preparatory to tie
long vacation, / begin to- strip mine, too.
All the carpets. rugs and curtains are
cleaned and salted down in c2mphOr.
Every useless bit OF bric-a- brac is slowed
away i'll the garret, the supeFfluous
rooms, parlOrs and guest chambers are
shut up for six months and all the
tufted furniture is put into castings and
out or sight From the first Of June tO
the first of October no broom Is ever
put to a floor, but as often as three
times week. with u mop wrung out in
water, the maid goves over the hard wood
floors Ill the living rooms, the tasselated
payemcnts q the halls, pass down the
woodwork and furniture with u moist
piece of cheese cloth aud thus one OF the
horrors Of heat, the dust. is avoided
INEXPENSIVE PRECAUTIONS.
Moreover. this process is carried out in
the morning early, when fresh air is al
lowed to sweep through open doors and
windows. After the cleaning the house is
immediately closed and from this early bath
the rooms remain cool and sweet smelling
the rest OF the day. Now, IL ] can man
age il, keep vase full OF fresh flowers
or POT OF them in every partment through
out the summer. Flowers OF plants are
wonderful abSorbents Of any ugly, stuff
smells that are 50 unpleasantIy prevalent in
town during the hot weat her. they overcome
all odOrs Of cooking and are infinitely cheer
ful objects in room barren OF all its
ordinary Orna mentatiOn- TheSumplest field
blossoms or cheap plants hawked in the
streets. answer my purpose: but another
source of great comfort 10 the Cog days Is
cool air from the cellar.
early in the spring ] give my cellar a
thorough cleaning. have man dust cut
the flues. and then. when the first hot days
days come, / order the cellar door opened
aud the registers IN each ROOM Keep the
veutIlatOrs at the top Of the house Just on a
crack and il is surprising the strong cur
rent Of clean. cold air that Passes daily
through the house. A nice. clean, dry.
dark cellar answers As sort or cold stOTa q
for refrigerating every room and helps
greatly in ma king life endurable-
IN LAUNDRY AND KITCHEN.
In the very first OF my summers in the
city went on the wnman, who now had
a little cOterie ~ feminine listeners about
her restaurant table Il learned that III
kitchen aud laundry fire were the CHIEF
causes or heating the house inside, so
persuaded the waSherwOIn3u 10 do GuI
clothes at home. ami | bought the cook q
gas stove. This kept the mercury down
five degrees on the west wall OF the
house. where the kitchen chimney usually
was not 10 the touch all day and night
| or course the cook appreciated tie change
| of temperature in the kitchen. and NY hus-
band liked the reduced coal bill But our
gas bill wasn't a bit larger than before
| for. except ia the kitchen, we almost fore
/ bore 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 flan es are ueither =
| intense. nor do they exhaust the XygeU
| as gaslight. ana the Railways We Iighte
| with tapcrs set floating in bowls az water
SWEPT BY OCEAN BREEZES"
Since those first years We have LaC
| electricity introduced in the house, InC
! that, you know, is the CCO-eSt light one
| can use Along with the cieCInc light
we have turned electricity into the kitch
| en. ana our meals are cooked a Z less waste
! OF heat than ever, but the triumph Of al
| my schemIng 10 keep cool was an arrange
! meut prepared for the dinner table Righ1
i'll the midst OF the board had placed every
! evening big glass bowl. holding a Cent
! block OF Ice, and then within two inche:
| OF il / suspended from my Chandelier al
| ordinary fly fan; one of those which. wheT
wound up. whirls back and forth. Well
| twice during the meal the maid would winC
| up the fan that as the cold air rose Off the
| block OF ice whisked il round the table
1t isn't the least exaggeratiOn 70 "a
| that we felt almost as Z swept by oceaI
! breeZes, so fresh did the air feel In tha
| room. and since We have had electric wire:
| put in the house the workBen have rigget
| uD an electric fan over the table Juat
! vibrating over the block Of ice, keeps tht
| dniugroom at an even temperature we
| like.
QUESTION OF DIET.
But dear me! / didn't stop al these
! devices for keeping cool. for next after
| reducing the temperature of the house
| spent great deal of force considering
| summer diet and if people who stop al
| the season tn town would only recognize
| it. what they eat cools CT inflameS thS
| blood IN a NEST amazing way A good
| hOusekeepeF. for example, will never let
| her supply OF lemonade run low She will
| serve it at all three meals and only at
| brea kfaSt without sugar Iced tea Is
nice. but it's sbockingly indigesIible. how.
ever fruit syrups will certainly fill Its