Evening star., 1927-09-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

and singly, that 5s is the perfect
theoretical temperature, that every
one would be better off for living con-
stantly in such a temperature.
We don't care, we don't care,
| Through many years of living on this
| particular earth, under the conditions
which we find facing all human be-
| ings, and which all the millions of men
who have faced them have never been
| able to change one jot, we have ire
| vocably discovered that we are chilly
at an interior temperature of 6S de-
| grees or less.
| Stirring around outdoors, with q
sun beaming down, 6S is rather nice.
| Inside, however, 68 leaves us cold.
Very cold. Quite cold. Indubitably
cold. Positively and undoubtedly.
Even the kindly embrace of a Guaran-
| teed all-wool sweater does not help
| matters much.
We are too cold for comfort. and
| that is all there is to it. Our idea of
| interior warmth. we may state, is to
| be able to sit around in our shirt
sleeves. if we want to. From reading
books and magazines we have come to
the conclusion that there exist many
blessed persons who never are known
to appear in the living or drawing
rooms without being clad in a full
dress suit, or at least a tuxedo, but
we were born in q small country town
and probably never will get over It,
At least we haven't to date. We like
to SIT in our shirt sleeves when we
want to. Yes, man.
* X X
A temperature Of exactly rs degrees
is what our system requires to be
comfortable indoors in Winter. and if
the tube shows 49, we will not kick too
much or too often.
At IA degrees we begin to warm up,
at 76 we are exactly comfortable, at rs
we begin to get too hot. At 80 we are
forced to open tho front door.
No household ought to tolerate an
indoor temperature Of 80 degrees. The
thing is unthinMable. There are a
few elderly ladies, of course, who
maintain that nothing less renders
them comfortable, but our observation
has been that even 90 degrees would
not be too hot for them.
Unblushingly we speak against 80
degrees. BY no means ought such
temperature to be tolerated in this
athletic age, when the son of man
who walked 1000 miles across the con-
tinent thinks he has done wonders If
he goes around 18 holes of a golf
course in an afternoon.
Our theoretical perfect temperature
Of rs degrees, while it may shock edu.
Gators and others easily shocked, will
be found to be wonderfully comforting
to all those who believe with Dante
that the lowest pit of hell Is lined with
ice and covered with snow.
In the everyday life Of humanity
there is nothing more miserable than
to be cold. The life Of the very poor
est poor is hell on this earth on this
account. 1t would seem, then, but the
veriest common sense, for those who
have enough of this worlds goods, to
keep their houses warp, not to some
experts satisfaction, but to their
own.
And at no time Of the year Is a
warm house more satisfying, or more
beneficial to the human frame and it's
contents than during the early days
of Autumn, when the temperature is
likely to be higher outdoors than in.
doors.
1t would seem to be nothing more
than the plainest sort Of common
sense to start the furnace when the
thermometer on the living room wall
shows IS degrees, or even 70 degrees.
But how many persons do 1t? Have
you, kind reader, started yours? Has
the writer here started his? Why, Of
course not