The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-15
COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER.

As soon as the hot weather begins
to get in its serious work people Of
all degrees of competence and incom-
petence to speak on the question pro-
ceed to formulate and communicate
recipes for the avoidance of sun
stroke. So numerous are these rec
ipes that if a man attempted to fol-
low out one-tenth of them he would
not have time to do anything else.
All the efforts of these altruistic ad-
visers seem, however, to relate to the
saving of life. None of them consid-
ers the subject of comfort, without
which life soon ceases to be worth
living. For the benefit of such per-
sons as greatly desire to keep cool
and this category includes probabls..
an overwhelming majority of
adult population-a well known
sician who is himself man of extern
sive adiposity and therefore subject to
suffering from high temperatures has
formulated simple plan which is
within the reach of any person hav-
ing access to bathtub.
"This is method that I have been
trying on myself with great success
for three years now," he says. 1T
begins in the bathtub and ends in the
bathtab. There's nothing else to it
except a towel. A great many per-
sons advocate tepid baths in hot
weather on the ground that a cold
bath produces a reaction that heats
one up rapidly afterward. Well, I've
got nothing to say against the tepid
bath treatment. For a person who
has weak heart or who is not con-
stitutienally sound it's an excellent
thing, but for a robust man the cold
bath is better when taken in the
right way.
"The popular shower bath is a fall
lacy SO far as helping one to keep cool
is concerned, for FIVE minutes after
you are dry your skin is in a glow.
The thing to do is to fill your bath
tub up with cold water, get into it
and lie perfectly still for several min
utes. To begin with, three or four
minutes will be as long as you will
want to stay later you will find your
self remaining for eight or ten min
utes.
when you are thoroughly chilled
through and your skin is cool all over,
is time to get out. Now comes the
important part. Most people think
they must scrub themselves furiously
dry with crash towel. That is all
wrong. 1t simply sets up action of
the pores, and there you are perspir-
ing again. The proper way is to
press off the drops that adhere and do
the rest by tanning yourself with the
towel. Then get into your clothes in
a leisurely manner, and you will find
that for three or four hours thereafter
though all creation around you is
melting it's collar
"Take bath like this just before
breakfast, and if you possibly can an
other in the middle of the afternoon
when the temperature is highest, and
you will find the miseries of city life
in the heated spell so mitigated that
you will forget all about them. I
first tried this two years ago when
that terrific hot spell hit the city ear
ly in August, and though l had to be
in the city throughout the heat, l got
through it well and comfortably.
But it must be remembered that this
treatment isn't for invalids or people
with weak lungs or hearts. don't
want to be 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
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