The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-08-01
HOW TO KEEP
COOL WHEN HOT
"FOrget It," Advises Dr.. WILEY
Governments Head Chemist.
PRACTICES WHAT He breaches

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Weighs 240 Pounds, but Hasn't Suffer.
ed From the Heat In Years-Fa,
People Not Hotter Than Thin Ones
Power of Auto Suggestion.
Is your collar wilted. your clothing
a second cousin to a towel in a Turk.
1sh bath and your temper frayed and
frazzled? Are you ready to bet a
months salary that the thermometer
stands not a degree less than PIP when
your friends greet you with the cheer
full remark, Gee whiz, amt this a
scorcher?'
1t so, forget 1t, and auto suggest
yourself into state of GOODNESS that
would satisfy an Eskimo DIR. Harvey
w. Wiley, Uncle Sans head of the
bureau of chemistry and pure food
man, has the prescription, and it's free
of charge. Moreover, he takes his own
medicine, SO the remedy can't be ell.
tirely an experiment.
81 haven't suffered from the heat in
years. he said, land | weigh close to
240 pounds too! Does my collar, cuffs
or my shirt resemble the wearing ap-
parel Of the usual fat man at this time
of the year? Not ravage Of the heat
on them, is there? Hot? Nonsense.
You just imagine you're hot because
you let yourself think you are! If you
| 10 6T1't To hirI- fbo% -
be hot
when the temperature gets as high
as SO every last mothers son of us is
| talking about it. And we do not stop
to realize that the tempera ture of the
| inside of our bodies Is constantly at
9S1a. That is ones normal tempera-
/ ture. Now, then, why should we suffer
so much from the heat when it is the
exception for US to have to endure
weather few degrees hotter than the
inside of our own bodies?
'More than that, it is not half so
dangerous for the human body to be-
come overheated as it is for it to be-
come too cool. Take the cholera pa
tent, for instance. AS long as his
temperature remains high the physi-
clan does not anticipate immediate
death. But let it fall a half degree
and the doctor is alarmed; if it drops
whole degree then the end of the pa
tient is but matter Of few hours.
Auto Suggestion.
ST am not Christian Scientist, bur
I do believe in the power of thought
Auto suggestion will cure every imag-
NATIVE disease of mankind, and | be-
lieve that three-fourths of mans all
ments are purely imaginative. l don't
mean by that statement that person
can change conditions. On hot day
a man by auto suggestion cannot
vary his temperature, but he can
auto suggest himself beyond its power
to annoy him. Why don't suffer with
the heat? Because l don't think of it.
Keep your mind off it. When indoors
/ have my books and problems to in
terest me. and when I am out Of doors
there is always something to keep my
mind occupied and make me as com
Portable in the sun as in the shade.
baseball in the broiling hot sun and
complain about it? Certainly not
But put that same boy to work on the
garden in the same sun, and-well-
he'd almost faint dead away from The
heat. When he is playing ball he for
gets the sun and everything but ball
But when he has to work he remem
bers the sun Immediately, thinks of /
and becomes hot and exhausted.
"Pve cured lots of people who suf
fered with the heat and changed then
from grouches to human beings, al
happy as CLAIMS at high tide. l have
had them come to me and say the.
were completely done up from TIT
heat. DO you like fishing, walking
boating, baseball or any other sport II
particular? I asked them. If they di,
care for any of those sports told then
to get out and indulge in them. For
get the day. the heat and everything
but that which you are interested in,'
advised them. That's the cure 70
heat
Fat Nonconductor.
care fat people really hotter thai
thin ones? OF course not. People VIII
are fat and go around grumbling abou
the heat simply make themselves mis-
cradle and their friends as well. AS
matter of fact, fat is a splendid mol
conductor A fat man should be n
warmer, If as warm, than thin on
Fat keeps the heat from entering th
body and also from leaving it."
Not only has DIR. Wiley very stron
ideas regarding the thought method {
keeping cool in summer, but he ais
has rules regarding what to eat an
what to drink. Strange as it ma
seem, he is not opposed to people drinl
ing ice water-in winter! For sun
mer, he claims, drink that is 60 {
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