The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-28

| GO from tne Heat In Iears-F at
People Not Hotter Than Thin Ones.
Power of Auto Suggestion.
Is your collar wilted. your clothing
a second cousin to towel In q Turk
ish bath and your temper frayed and
frazzled? Are you ready to bet
months salary that the thermometer
stands not degree less than PIP when
your friends greet you with the cheer
full remark. Gee whiz, amt this a
scorcherT'
II so. forget ii. and auto suggest
yourself into a state of GOODNESS that
would satisfy an Eskimo. DR.. 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.
Il 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
hadn't time to think that you wouldn't
be hot,
when the temperature gets as high
as 30 every last mothers son of us is
talking about It. And we do not stop
to realize that the temperature of the
inside of our bodies is constantly at
9S12. 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 paysi-
clan does not anticipate immediate
death. But let it fall a half degree
and the doctor is alarmed; If it drops
a whole degree then the end of the pa
tient Is but matter of a few hours
Auto Suggestion.
81 am not a Christian Scientist, but
do believe in the power of thought
Auto suggestion will cure every mag
NATIVE disease of mankind, and | be.
lieve that three-fourths of mans all
ments are purely imaginative. / don't
mean by that statement that q person
can change conditions On a hot day
man by auto suggestion cannot
vary his temperature, but he can
auto suggest himself beyond it's power
to annoy him. Why don't suffer with
the heat? Because don't think of it
Keep your mind Off 1t. When indoors
| have my books and problems to in
terest me. and when 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.
Did you ever see boy playing
baseball in the broiling hot sun and
complain about 1t? Certainly not!
But put that same boy to work on the
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 it
and becomes hot and exhausted.
I've cured lots of people who suf
fered with the heat and changed them
from grouches to human beings, as
happy as clans at high tide. have
had them come to me and say they
were completely done up from the
| heat DO you like fishing, walking.
boating, baseball or any other sport in
! PARTICULAR l asked them. If they did
care for any Of those sports told them
! 10 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 for
heat
Fat a Nonconductor.
Are fat people really hotter than
thin onesf OF course not. People who
are fat and go around grumbling about
the heat simply make themselves mis-
cradle and their friends as we'll. AS a
matter Of fact, fat is a splendid non
conductor A fat man should be no
warmer. If as warm, than a thin one.
Fat keeps the heat from entering the
body and also from leaving it."
Not only has DR.. Wiley very strong
ideas regarding the thought method OF