The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-24
DANGER IN SUMMER
 IN WRONG CLOTHES
Physician Chides Londoners for Lack of Discretion in Choosing Them.

exigencieS of the weather the Lon doner does not. The business man in ing the day, and does not shift to light things till evening when, naturally, the earth is cooling and with it the atmosphere.
 The medical correspondent of The London Times not only chides his compatriots for a procedure which to him seems ridiculous. but warns them of the danger to the circulation. By the middle-aged man is inviting dis aster in the form of heart weakness, which may prove serious.
 The danger is equally applicable here to those few business men who persist in presenting what they con ceive to be a correct Sartoria1 ap- pearance by wearing heavy suits of clothes, including waistcoats, through out the summer.
 The physician made a tour of in spection and this is what he found. The clothing of London business men in this. one of England's hottest summers, differs scarcely at all from their clothing in winter. What diff ference exists is summed up in two words-no overcoats
 Their food is also just the same, says the writer. While the schol girl turns to iced drinks, her sagaci- ous father orders for luncheon his usual steak. After his usual steak he drinks his usual coffee. It is a safe guess that his usual rasher of bacon and his fried eggs are in the break fast menu.
 Moreover. there is the same routine of office life which can be observed on any day of the year A few shirt sleeves, an occasional open window these are the sum of the concessions made by. the business men of Eng land to the fiercest heat wave Eng land has known for a generation.
 Contrast of Day and Evening.
 The thing is more astonishing, says the physician, when a visit to the city by day has been supplemented by a visit to the suburbs in the even ing. The sun has now set or is in process of setting A cool wind lifts the dry leaves, rattling them in autumna1 fashion. It is once more possible to breathe.
 And everybody is dressed in their hannels. The men who defed the waistcoasts buttoned up, their linen collars stern1y adjusted, are now | m owing across cool lawns with shirts open at the neck and no collars at all. By day they ate the meals of | custom; in the evening they Shave l joined the school girls in a taste for | ice and lemons.
 They say that this unbending con stitutes a great relief. and one can well believe it, the writer agrees. Those, however. who seek discomfort | in order the more to enjoy escape from it are not among the wisest | men.
 For it should be understood that | the process of stewing all day and | then refrigerating at night is attend l ed by danger. warns the physician. The danger is to the circulation | the weakest point in most business men who have left their youth be- | hind them
 In the heat the blood passes to the skin. This is a natural method de- | signed to secure the maximum cool ing effect. The appearance of per | spiration helps the process because | there is set up an evaporation from | the skin surface. If. however, by reason of heavy clothes, stuffy rooms | or big meals. the heat loss is not suf- | fciently great to keep pace with the heat production, a condition of stag nation results.
 The blood stream is slowed down at the surface, and a blue tinge is apt to occur in the cheeks. The effect ! is to dam up the circulation and so to throw an added weight of worK | on the heart. And that organ, ;1 it is weak, may give trub1e, says the 1 writer.
 | Let us suppose, however, that it ad- | iusts itself and manages to maintain I a reasonable circulation in spite of | the disadvantages under which 1t has been placed. The business man goes home in a hot train and at once gets into his coolest clothes. That is to say, that at moment when the very extreme degree of surface flush
  cooling himself down as rapidly as possible.
 Danger In the Evening.
 He goes out. half clad. into the quick, and chilling is very common. In other words, readjustment of cir culation is anticipated, and the re- sistance of the body lowered for the Our fathers knew and insisted on the danger of cooling too quickly, says the physician. They had a wholesome fear of chills, a fear seem to have forgotten their doc trine Or we think ourselves wiser than they were. Yet every day some
 one oversteps the danger mark. and goes down. For bacteria are ever It is foolish and. indeed, foo1hardy way of acting, says the writer. Ii overstrains the heart, and it invites colds and even pneumonia. More
 over, there is no need whatever tc A few man have had the courage
 to come to work in reasonable hot
 weather clothes. All men can a least discard their underwear and 5 waistcoats and put on soft callars, the 7 physician says. Nor need anyone en' , coat on his back or 9, collar round hi. neck.
 } Let us. be sane. the writer urges On arriving at the office a mar should strip to his shirt and put hi.
 collar away He should roll up hi
 shirtsleeves as far as they will gt , and open that garment at the neck 3 He should also keep doors and win doWs open (the blinds if possible be 3 ing drawn), so as to sit in a draught He should do the same thing a
 once on reaching home. and will the1
 be in a position. after an hour or so ) to wear anything he Pleases with i'm 7 punity. Above all, luncheon ough l to be cut out of the days bill of fare contends the physician For neglec ! of these obvious precautions, a mar s of fifty is apt undu1y to wear out tho margin of safety left him in hi 5 heart and blood vessels.