The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-07-30
HOW To LIVE IN SUMMER.
Common Sense Advice About Eating, Drink.
ing and'Working.


HcrdM writer, one must keep up his
strength. Natures provisions for
restoring the tired or wasted system
are food and sleep. 1t follows that to
be healthy a man must eat well and
sleep well. To say that one should
in this weather take only light,
nutritious food and sleep in an airy,
well-ventilated room is to state mere
commonplace, and yet how many
disregard these simple suggestions.
Avoid fatty or heat-producing foods.
For most persons leading sedentary
life meat once day is quite sufficient.
Many men who would go to their
days work refreshed and strengthened
by a breakfast of eggs, bread and
butter and ripe fruit are made torpid
by devourlng fish and flesh until their
overburdened systems beget craving
for stimulants.
Don't eat in hurry. If you live
in the suburbs and must rush to catch
the morning train a sandwich carried
to the cars and eaten at leisure on the
road will do you more good than
dainty breakfast that is "bolted" be-
fore you start. See that your clothing
is not only light in weight but that it
fits you loosely, so as to permit of the
circulation of air about the body, and
particularly shun tight shoes, which
are a menace to health and a positive
preventive of comfort, 1t is of chief
Importance that the head be cool.
A straw hat is indispensable, and
when exposed to the direct rays Of
the sun those who can do so should
carry an umbrella. Those who are
obliged to labor in full sunshine should
guard against a stroke by placing a
cabbage leaf or similar substance with
in the crown of the hat.
To readily carry off the waste Of
the system it is not sufficient that the
digestion be regular; the millions of
pores that cover the surface of the
body must be kept open. Each of
these pores is little escape pipe
through which rejected and poisonous
substances are exuded. When they
are choked these substances are forced
back into the system and there work
no end of mischief. Even when one
is taking daily dip into the surf the
skin should be kept in good working
order by means of tepid baths. When
the facilities for this are not at hand a
good sponge makes tolerable substi-
tute. The greatest danger of all in
this kind of weather'is draught or a
sudden change Of temperature when
overheated. When the body is bathed
in perspiration, if one carelessly throws
off the clothing or in any way sudden
lyreduces the temperature he is simply
inviting death.
Ice water kills more persons than
strichnine does. 1t should be drunk
in great moderation and slowly slipped,
mouthful at time-never gulped.
1t should be absolutely avoided at
meals. Taken into the mouth directly
after hot food it cracks the enamel OF
the teeth, and, entering the stomach,
it chills the natural fluids, so that they
are untitled for the work of digestion,
thus laying the foundation for thou
sand evils. The use of moderately
cool water not only averts these, but
slakes the thirst much better than the
ice-cold fluid. Avoid beverages that
contain much sugar acidulated drinks
are better. Alcoholic stimulants in
such weather are in the highest degree
dangerous, over-heating the system
and deranging all the bodily functions,
If one absolutely need stimulant a
glass of cold tea or coffee, plain OF
with soda water, slowly imbibed, will
key you up to your work better than
whisky.
Overwork should be avoided while
this weather continues, and, above
all things, don't worry. The overwork
one cannot always escape, but he can
and should escape unnecessary worry,
which kills more persons, ten to one
than work does. Remember the story
OF the old woman who on her death.
bed told her son how MANY thing:
worried her through life, and most o.
them had never happened. Follow
these simple suggestions, laugh when
you can, cultivate an even temper
and a cheerful, kindly disposition, and
you will be healthful and comfortable
In weather that wrecks the temper
and the health of reckless livers. As
the old rhyme has it, the best of all
physicians are