The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-18
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Hot weather iysfht6lerabieA. enough at
best, but there is such thing as reduc-
ing it's discomforts to the minimum. Con-
sidering the amount of agony the aver
age citizen endures, during the dog days,
it seems queer that so few perspiring
mortals even make an effort to learn the
principles of summer hygiene or to put
those principles into practice after learn
ing them.
In the matter of hot weather diet, the
ordinary community. simply runs amuck.
Nature does put In a protest, for self
protection, and roast pork and sausage
and buckwheat cakes are unspeakable
doesn't cover enough ground. Ones APP
petite is bound to flag with the coming Of
hot days and it's a lucky dspensation of
Providence that it does. Nature recog-
nizes the fact that with the temperature
in the COS the system doesn't need as
much fuel as 1t does when animal heat is
all that keeps the body warm. So the old
Dame issues orders to stop stocking, but
the man who thinks he owns the body in
question doesn't pay any attention to her.
He remarks in CONSERVATION that his APP
petite is falling off and he eakes to tonics
and pick-me-ups anu appetizers. He uses
every artificial means to tease himself in
to eating larger quantities of food than
he needs for health; and when he has
forced himself into overlooking his stom-
ach. he lays the fiattering JUNCTION to his
soul that he has done the square thing by
himself and has TAKEN precautions
against sickness. Now the fact is that he
probably eats too much .all the year
round, and eats altogether'1oo much in
warm weather. The stomach ought to
rebel against carbonaceous food in sum-
mer and if it's warning isn't needed, II
is excusable for making things decidedly
unpleasant for its owner.
Fat meat, pastry, butter, bread, cream
and stimulants of all sorts are out of or
der on the hot-weather menu. OF course
habit demands certain amount of bread
and butter and cream, but the amour,
should be exceedingly small. The natur
al craving for acids that comes with hot
weather should receive respectful atten
ton. Fruit and green vegetables are the
most important features of summer diet
Lean meat, poultry. fish, plain oil salad:
and light ices are all excellent things fol
a stomach whose energy is undermined
by the heat. AS for drinks-there one
comes to the very essence of summer d.
etetic crimes. With lne first leap of TIL,
mercury every American makes a mac
rush for the water-cooler OF the neares
soda fountain, and, from that hour unit
October, tries conscientiously to have
stream of iced liquid trickling down hi
| throat during half of his waking hours
The practice is absolutely disastrous t,
health and produces temporary coolnes
at the cost of subsequent greater discom
fort, but there is no use in arguing tn
point. Thinking ice in a glass Is an invi
ts ton that no American can Withstand
If iced drinks must be taken, at leas
they should be relegated to between mea
periods. Iced tea, iced water, iced lem
dorado, iced coffee at meals are dieteti
denomination.
Iced liquid at So degrees going into
stomach literally stops the process of di
lgestion. which doesn't go on until tn
water has been warmed to the point Q
iabout 100 degrees. Now a summer stonl
ZACH has enough troubles of its own with
lout having to cook up 65 degrees of hea
for each drink poured into It, and, a
comparative comfort in hot weather dc
Ipends entirely upon a satisfactory cond
ton of general health. the man who sui
fers from the heat couldn't do a wors
thing than drink iced drinks with hi
meals. The more water. of reasonabl
cool temperature, he drinks. the better
for 1t induces perspiration and perspira
ton. while unbecoming, is summer saliva
ton. a little lemon juice, lime juice G
teven dash of vinegar in the water
thirst quenching. Milk or milk and vich
is good Sumner drink, if it agrees wit
one In any kind of weather, but there
danger. of its producing biliousness, an
butterTnilk is safer in summer. In fac
with the single exception of good waite
ihtIff tor mil fc anrhor 6n hos of n
weather drinks. The whole army
cups" and whiskey and gin are unwhol
some in hot weather, because of the bloc
J heating and nerve exciting stimulant
them, as well as because of the ice tn:
makes them tempting.
Fruit eating in the hot season Is alt
gether sensible If one is particular as
the quality of the fruit, and doesn't ei
an absurd quantity at time; but an in
mense amount of summer sickness com
I from eating fruit and berries that al
. efther not ripe enough or are overripe ar
tainted. The slightest indication of d
cay In fruit should bar it absolutely ,
an edible; but thrifty housewives wou
} rather spend money on doctors bills thu
} throw away fruit; and, even in luxurio,
I homes, not half enough caution is exc
cised about the fruit that is put on Il
table. Down on the East Side the fru
} question is crying evil against whit
} doctors argue in vain. Naturally enoug
TO persons who are on meagre and una
4 petizing diet and upon whom the he
tells cruelty, the fruit of the corn
! stands is tempting and they devour It v
} raciously when they have the money
buy 1T. Almost all of it Is unwholesom
much of it is absolutely unfit to eat: b
its bad condition reduces it's price a,
4 brings 1t within reach of the poor.
) the East Side babies roll about the sid
walks clutching Jumps OF decayed ban
ma or peaches or plums In their dirty II
tie hands; and the dispensaries and bal
hospitals are crowded and papers reco
8 alarming infant mortality due to &
HEAT.
The watermelon, so ubiquitous on {
East Side, is another source of ey
y though watermelon is a very good thi
when one treats it fairly. 1t has be
known to cure yellow fever and chole
cases and Is valuable in kidney troubl,
but when tainted 1t Is deadly thing. a
the practice much in vogue among Ee
Side children of eating the rind as w
as the pulp can hardly be commend
save as n suicidal measure