Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11

Fortunate is the man who can sleep
we'll in extremely hot weather, tor to
him shall be given reservoirs Of strength
to meet the heat of the day.
1t is remarkable how so many people
growl about not being able to sleep this
kind of weather and to what extremes
they go to try to secure a little rest.
They pile out into the open, where
it is no cooler than inside, and put up
with all the discomforts of hard earth,
MOSQUITOES, insects of all kinds, in the
belief that they are better off.
They have traded comfortable bed
and clean linen for the most difficult
sleeping place in the world. They have
given up the opportunity for scanty, or
perhaps no night dress, in order to re-
pose in regulation regalia.
After they have lain several hours
beneath the unaccustomed light of the
sky, trying heroically to go to sleep,
they drop at last into a fretful doze,
than 10 minutes.
BY this time they are so stiff and sore
that they willingly go home, only to
find their sleeping apartment hotter
than ever, but the bed soft and ar
rangements for sleeping surely more
civilized.
False modesty, one may believe. is re-
Sponsible for more fretful sleeping in
hot weather than anything else.
Sleepers should recognize that the
present season is unusual and that 1t
demands unusual remedies.
One of the simplest of theSe-and by
all odds the best-iS the eXpedient OF
sleeping without clothes of any kind.
oh, I can't do that!" some one will
say, almost invariably, when it is sug-
geSted to them, but the season calls for
nothing else Surely the dark is cover
enough, if it is augmented by certain
protective devices of the human mind
The need for clothes is as old as the
hills, and perhaps older. An explana-
ton is given in the story of Adam and
Eve; maybe it explains, and maybe it
doesn't; at any rate, the fact remains
sure.
Steps toward a wholesome nudity
have been gigantic during the past 20
years. with the children of the world
leading the movement with their sun
suits.
What happy, healthy lot the boys
and girls are. with their bright eyes
and tanned skins whether they live at
seaShore. mountains, or in the hotter
streets of the great cities!
There is many and many an adult,
has cast an envious eye upon the natu-
raj freedom of the little ones, as they
go around all day long in practically
nothing at all
Older people are not children, it
may be admitted, but surely they could
forget their clothes long enough to be
comfortable at night. If a new APP
proach to life, new state of mind, is
needed in any individual case, then
there is nothing for that one to do
except acquire it.
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Too frequent reference to home
thermometers. is to be Stunned during
such an extended heated term as the
present.
We do not mean that one should not
look at them. Interest in the weather
is natural with man, because it is a
part of his life. The very living of
millions depends upon whether it
rains.
But to carry thermometers from one
floor to another in a house, to check
up on the difference in degree between
them, as some persons do, is something
of mistake
In the first place, nothing can be
done about it. In the second, such
particular knowledge does one no good
at all, except satisfy a curiosity which
had better be left quiescent.
Such a hot Summer as this one will