The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-29
COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER.
y Physicians Way OF Taking a Bath
by Which He heeps Cool.

AS soon as the hot weather begins to get
in its serious work people OF all degrees OF
competence and Incompetence TO speak on
the question proceed to formulate and
communicate recipes for the avoidance OF
srnstroke. So numerous are these recipes
that if a man attempted to follow out one
tenth OF them he wouldn't have time 10 do
anything else All the efforts of these al
truistic advisers seem, however, TO relate
. to the saving OF life; none OF them con-
siders the subject of comfort, without
which life soon ceases to be worth living
For the benefit OF such persons as greatly
desire to keep cool-and this category in
cludes probably an overwhelming majority
OF the ad 1T population well known pny-
stefan, who IS himself a man OF extensive
adiposity and therefore subject to Suffering
from high temperatures, has formulated
simple plan which is within the reach OF
any person having access TO . bathtub.
This is method that I have been try
ing on myself with great success for three
wears now he says. sit begins in the
bathtub and ends IN the bathtub- There's
nothing else TO it except towel A great
many persons advocate tepid baths IN not
weather on the ground that cold bath
produces reaction tina heats one up rap
idlv afterwarC Well I've got nothing &c
saw against the tepd bath treatment. For
!. a person who has q weak heart or who
Is NOT constitut!onalIy sound It's an excel
cent thing. but for q robust man the cold
bath Is better when taken in thu right
way.
THE popular shower bath Is fallacy SO
far as helping one to keep cool IS con-
cerued. for five minutes after YOU dry
YOUR skin IS in 4 glow. The thing TO do IS
To I'LL your bathtub up with cold water,
get into it and lie perfectly still for several
minutes To begin with. three or four min
utes will be as long as you Will want &c
stay: later you Will find yourself remain
;nc for eight or ten minutes.
when you are thoroughly chilled
through and your skin is cool all over it Is
time to get out. Now comes the important
part. Most people think they must scrub
themselves furiously dry with a crash
towel That is all wrong. 1t simply sets
I'D action OF the pores, md there you are
perspiring again. Tho proper way Is to
press off che drops that adhere and do tha
rest By tanning yourself with the towel
Then get into your clothes in a leisurely
manner, and you VIII find that for three
or four hours thereafter you Will be cool
and comfortable, though all creation
around YOU is melting It's colinr.
TAKE a bath Ike this Just before break
fast, and # you possibly can, another in
the middle OF the afternoon when the tenn
perature IS highest. and you Will find r..
mfseries OF city lie in the heated
smell so mitigatsd that you will forget all
about them. I first tried this two years
ago when that terrific hot spell hit the
city early In August. and. though I had 70
be in the city throughout the heat I got
through 1t well and almost comfortably
But II must be remembered that this
treatment isn't for invaliCis or people with
weak lungs or hearts I don't want to ba
responsible for deaths by heart disease
and pneumonia. The safe thing to do is
TO ask your family physician whether you
are hardy enough to stand such course
before you begin.''-New York Sun