Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-08-08
Keeping Cool.

INC CSPOhSAO4iitf loA Wiling hCab
rests in a measure at least upon the
hested Not everyone who admits
this may be prepared to 60 to the full
extremity of those metal philosophers
who hold that temperature and hui
Nudity are illusions of which we can
rid ourselves by ignoring them. The
thermometer is certainly an objective
reality and when thousand Their
mometers in one thickly settled COM
munity tell uniform story it is hard
to overthrow the record by merely
hulling at it declaration that the
conditions are imaginary.
Nevertheless, the individual has
more control over his own comfort,
even when summer is doing its
worst, than would seem possible at a
first glance 1t is fact recognized
by every one experienced in business
that the man who is never in hurry
accom- plishes more than his neighbor
VINO is always rushing to catch some-
thing. The mental balance is so dis
turbed by fretting and fu,ning that
unimportant details distract attention
from important principles. The
Quakers are not simply following a
fad in intoxicating habitual modera-
ton of speech and deliberateness Of
action and occasional periods of ST.
lent, inward communing. They show
worldly wisdom in all this which
does them Infinite credit and bears
fruit in an extraordinary percentage
of success intbusiness among them.
Apply the same idea to bodily COM
fort in the warm season. OF course
the accessories of shade and thin
clothing are to be cared for, but most
persons above the poorest class can
command these. Suitably clad and
keeping out of reach of the fierce rays
of the sun, the man with an equable
temper, who moves quietly, speaks
only after consideration, and has his
mind made up not to feel one degree
warmer than he is compelled to, gets
along a thousand times better than he
who pauses in his work every few
minutes to consult the thermometer
and the weather chart and to eXclaim
about the heat.
Why is it that women are often so
cool in appearance while the men
about them are visibly sweltering?
1t is because a woman grows up in
the understanding that the first de-
mand the world makes of her is that
she shall be attractive; and the most
fascinating of women would suffer an
eclipse of charm if she were to throw
aside all her daintiness, come down %
the mere essentials of decency in at
tire, fan herself like a steam mill,
drink rivers of ice water, mop her
face and neck continually with
handkerchief, and loosen her tongue
only to swear at the weather. Yet
that is probably just what her hus-
band is doing while she is looking the
picture of GOODNESS and content, sway
ing neT ran With SOU TuN lumlC.
soothing motion. and keeping her
mind as far as possible away from the
discomforts of the day by reading or
cheerful conversation.
She has the secret of the whole mat
ter, without, perhaps, being more
than half conscious of the philosophy
underlying it. Many of the troubles
human flesh is heir to come from
without; but larger share, undoubt-
eddy, are of our own making through
mental unrest and incessant brooding
over what we cannot change. A
small part of the strength wasted in
idle objurgation, if concentrated up
on a resolve not to be conquered by
eternal conditions, would leave man
kind wondering what had become of
the traditional terrors of midsummer.
Piles are not only in and of them
selves very painful and annOying, but