The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-10
TO CONTINUE HOT.
FOrecasters Promise No Cooler
Weather for Kansas.

One might stand the hot weather if
It were not for the hot weather
"don'ts." Every one you meet gives
them to you. Almost any one can tell
you how to avoid heat prostration and
other seasonable calamities. In the
shade of the electric fan in the drug
store the lilly of the field in spotless
white hannels. canvas shoes and Pana-
ma holds forth on the evils of hurry
and worry, while he sips leisurely al
his favorite summer drink.
Look here" he says, as you run in
putting and painting. seizing the only
available moment of a crowded day for
a cooling draught. you shouldn't hur-
~ like that. No wonder you suf-
/ don't mind the weather. I could
stand several weeks of this but my
wife and the children want to get Oul
so Wen 90 up to the northern lakes
next week"
Then there is the man that tells YOU
what You should eat and what you
should avoid; the man who insists that
hot drinks are more cooling that cold
and that a not bath cools you more
quickly than a cold plunge. Some peO-
pie say you shouldn't eat any break
fast, others declare that everyone
should leave out luncheon in no;
weather and a light lunch is generally
advised in olace of the usual hearty
dinner at night Soda water is enough
20 ruin any stomach, ice-tea and ice
water. are equally injurious Nobody
should sleep in the breeze of an cleo
trio fan unless he wants a case o.
neuralgia. and summer cold such as
one gets from sleeping in front of al.
open window is the hardest thing in
the world to cure. Women who have
nothing to do but lie around in XII
mona declare that they really envy the
men who have got to go out in the
bollng sun In coat and collar because
they peieNe that "one is really much
more comfortable when one is dressed,
and busy. 1t takes ones mind off the
heat"
But We will have to put up with the
Kindly counsel for another day at least
according to the weather bureau Gen
orally fair and continued warm tonight
and saturday is the forecast There is
no mint of rain although it was cloudy
and partly cloudy in COncordia and
Hays City yesterday. The highest tenn
perature recorded in Kansas yesterday
was at Mcpherson where the therlnorn-
eter registered 100. The daily corn and
wheat region bulletin says: Hot dry
weather continues il Kansas and west
ern Missouri except cloudy at Concordia
and partly cloudy AT Hays. High tenn
perature prevails in all the districts ex-
cept the indianapolis where it has fallen
Heavy rains have occurred in Iowa
northern Illinois and southern N-iscon-
sin with lighter rains in all the otheg
districts except the Kansas City and
Louisville districts.
The maximum ard minimum temper
atures recorded in Kansas for the TWEEN
ty-four hours ending this morning at
z o'clock were:
Baker 9s. p: Concordia 90. "A: For
Scott 90. p; HAYS &C. SIS. Macksville eS
20: Mcpherson 100. 70: Manhattan 100
"A: Usage City sc. 20; Sedan "a. q: To
peka Sc. "A; Toornto "a, 20; Wichita &c
a.
Today's temperatures recorded by th7
government thermometer were as fol
lows:
Z o'clock ......77 II O'Clock. 81
8 o'clock. 81 70 O'Clock. %
9 o'clock. 1 o'clock. ....... So
10 o'clock ........SS , O'Clock. 81
The two o'clock record was one degree
higher than recorded Thursday after
noon. The wind has been southwest
blowing Il miles an hour.
The new town of Iiaderdale, Carroll
county on the Omaha extension of the
Chicago Great Western railway will be
opened to the public by an auction sale
OF lots about the middle Of July. For
particulars address Edwin D. Magill,
Mgr, Townsite Dept, Fort Dodge. Ia.
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