The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1902-07-07
ZONE HUNDRED AND ONE"

When the eye Of the reader is arrest
ed by the above caption he will probably
wonder If the article it heads is in COM
memoration Of somebody's birthday an
niversary or whether the caption itself
indicates the number IF times the writer
has addressed his readers through this
column. But II is neither the one nor
ih. other The editor is not yet SO old as
that. and he has written more
than 80 editorials for the Farm and
Farmers Department since February 3.
lS0. No. "One Hundred and one Is the
degree of heat indicated 10y the shaded
Thermometer at noon July ? as endeavor
10 push my languid pencil across the
page. one hundred and one, Isn't il
hot2 Why the very pencil in my hand
feels like a lady's curling tongs. the touch
81 the desk top is hot. the very air that
one breathes almost sizzles as il is drawn
into the lungs. and but. bark! The
sound 81 heavens artillery is in the
air. The clouds are actually forming as
n 70 fight. and the cooling breeze is
already commencing 10 ripple the leaves
II the grand old sycamore that shades
the western door of my office.
can a man write with the temperature
al lul degrees: But IL isn't there now.
as Il was "A few minutes ago. l can. as /
look toward the southwest. even discern
what appears 70 De- the skirmish line of
the army 81 raindrups coming TO our re
lief l listen for the ..tie of battle. the
first big drops that fan on the tinder-dry
roof II the veranda. Wei. i've minutes
have passed and We are all waiting and
watching with hated breath and sweat
bcgrimed brow for the rain that comes
not set.
While waiting FOR the cloud t. 81; ready
FOR business lets talk about heat and
cold and how To keep cool when it's hot
and 10 keep warm when IL IS cold. That
word cold sounds away or as il
We had long. long ago parted company
with IL forever. When the mercury
reaches 1u0 or over, that being above
the natural temperature OF the body Gin
health) everything one touches feels hot.
excepting ice, OF course. II the mercury
remains a short time at that point. of
course. everything exposed to such a
temperature must assume the same. ex-
ceptiug ice and the living body. The
body temperature IS ~ l. degrees. The
question az once occurs. Why does not
the body also rise 20 100? We know that
icc Will gradually melt into water and
the water viii then gradually rise from
- egrecs 10 mp near 100, and If kept in
"A stoppered jug or bottle it will go to the
same temperature as Indicated hE IN
thermometer. But the body remains at
its normal temperature OF Is IL degrees
u is because Of the evaporation of moist
ure that is constantly going on from the
surface of the body. The sweat issues
through millions OF the pores of the skin
and II tho air is hot and dry, as Il has
been FOR the past ten days. it is rapidly
converted into vapor. the air furnishing
part 81 the necessary heat and the body
another part. In this way the body is
kept cool. that Is. it IS kept n its normal
temperature.
By This time you may imagine that
the rain is falling fast. But 1t is not
So. ] wish IL were. j would quit writ
iug lay down my pencil and go to shout
ing and rejoicing. ] could not write nor
read nor do anything else II it were rain