The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31
SUMMER BATHS
 AND BEDROOMS
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 In summer the warm bath which is taken simply for the sake of cleanliness should, if possible be taken before the evening dinner half an hour before if possible
 The right temperature for the bedtime bath which is to induce sleep is about E degrees. A really cold bath is bracing to the nerves, stimulating to the senses and what it accomplishes in actual bodily comfort it CounteractS in awakened sensibilities. But shower bath taken for extra comfort, in a dark ened bathroom with the window open, or water which registers be tween 70 and 75 degrees, cools the body and soothes the nerves.
 After the cooling night bath you will be comfortable, and, for the moment. really cool. Do not dry the skin with a coarse Turkish towel. Produce as little friction as possible in the drying process. Sim ply pat the body with a soft toWe! until it is sufficiently dry to b. comfortable little water left on t will not be harmful.
 If you will turn this bath into a sea bath by putting a double hand ful of sea salt into the tub Gin a cheesecloth bag, preferably you can go to bed without drying off and you will feel deliciously cool and comfortable
 Another cooling bath, a sponge bath, can be taken in the morning. This can be taken with really cold water and such sponge bath will be found stimulating and refresh ing in summer This too, can be a salt sponge bath, which will be found wonderfully bracing.
 The windows of your bedroom should be left open, wide open, all the time, from morning till night and from night till morning. Of course, a room the windows of which are closed during the hottest part of the day is sometimes a few de grees cooler in the evening than one in which the windows are all left open all the time. but it goes without saying that the open win dow room Is better ventilated and hence a healthier place to sleep in, than the other room. If there is a hot tin roof just outside the bed room windows the windows can, as concession to your desire, te closed while the sun is beating on the roof
 When you are ready to retire avoid burning light in your bed room if at all possible. Undress in another room if you can.
 One way to sleep cool is to fasten the top sheet foot or so above the bed at the head and foot boards. In this way the body is protected from draughts, and the sheet does not come in unpleasant contact with the body Air the beds in summer all day if you can bring yourself to do 1t.
 THE STOOL IN THE KITCHEN.
 "I simply couldn't get on now without a kitchen stool" says a woman who does her own house work Its high desk stool, When I sit on 1t before the kitchen table l am well up on a level with the table. I sit perched upon it for almost all my kitchen work. and words cannot tell how it has saved me from getting tired.
 Most women stand all the time that they are doing their work in the kitchen Sometimes they will sit down in a chair, but are quickly up again, as chair is too low to let one work conveniently at a table Seated in a chair one has to lift ones arms up to work on the table and this is tiring and awkward. On my high stool I have command of my table, and use my hands and arms naturally.
 I had a lot of sandwiches to make yesterday for a picnic. I had the work done in no time without