Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-02

upon some people is that they pay
little or no attention to what they eat
or what they wear Food is fuel Tor
the body and it is therefore patent
that we need much less of it in hot
weather than during the winter
months for the same reason that the
furnace needs less coal when the tenn
perature is high.
| II is not easy to conceive better
way to assist those who must spend
| the summer in hot climate than to
reproduce the following advice as to
II is best 10 wear and to eat To this
end. 1t may serve good purpose to
"a rational hot weather diet submit
ted 10 the New York Times by Wini-
fred S Gibbs, dietician and teacher OF
| cookery of the New York Association
for Improving the Condition of the
| Poor:
l. Eat what experience proves to
| be the best for any individual idio.
| syncrasy. That does not mean con
| stantly thinking about what food
| agrees" with one. but simply to be
sensible and not indulge in anything
that is known to be harmful.
2. Eat meat once day. and alter
nate this with fish, If it can be pro
cured absolutely fresh. Get the need
ed strength at two meals from milk
and eggs. and from dishes in which
these foods have been incorporated,
such as milk soups and custard pud-
dings.
i g. Use crisp breads instead of fresh
ones or pastry cereals.
A. Use fresh green vegetable salads
freely. Dress these salads with plenty
OF oil and a dash of vinegar Oil and
butter are fats. and heat-giving to a
certain extent, it is true, but they arc
not heavy, and are useful in keeping
up bodily tone, which is apt to be
depleted by long continued heat.
5. For desserts use perfectly ripe
fruit juices, or the custard puddings
J spoken of.
6. Beyerages-Use tea and coffee
| as seems best for the individual A
sudden cutting off of either of these
beverages is not advisable. according
= 10 most physicians. but one should not
depend on the stimulation gained from
: their free use for refreshment in hot
i weather. 1t is probably unnecessary
: TO caution most of the enlightened
/ folk of today about the use of alcohol
I This is especially pernicious in hot
g weather, and is very often the cause
OF heat prostration.
$ Here is bit of advice based ON per
3 sonaI experience gained during the
g work of three New York summers
4 with the crowded tenements as a field
a Where the appetite absolutely refuses
+ TO respond to any food, do not force
: 1t at all meals, and satisfy thirst and
Q relieve hent exhaustion by systematic
[ drinking of cool milk; glass of milk
, n. 10 n. m, another at 2, another al
: - ~ 'h'iN 10 " ii
e Make up bodily loss which comes from
$ excessive perspration by free use
of moderately cold water.
e A few "Donts:" Do not keep up
2 turmoil in the stomach by constant
1 Indulgence in soda fountain beverages
Do not partake of made" dishes and
$ rich sauces. Let the meal be made
b up of simply cooked foods and do not
+ strive for the variety" craved in win.
I ter. Do not drink unreasonable quan.
I titles of cold water when overheated
. II is perfectly safe to assert that
nine Coloradoans in ten have been
eating and wearing at least twice as
5 much as they needed during the last
thirty days. They should correct this
dangerous habit. and. as contempo.
rary adds: "Those who. in addition,
viii take the trouble to lift cot out
on an upstairs piazza or balcony and
sleep in the outside air are apt to find
/, themselves in fine condition even after
wearing summer of five months"