Evening star., 1936-07-21

Nature also sees to it that one keeps
out Of the sun in very hot weather in the
city, for the simple reason that it is just
too darned hot. The cool breezes of the
shore and mountains are lacking. The
young and healthy may violate this rule
with impunity, as children commonly
do everywhere.
Drink a quart of milk day is good
common sense. Everybody seems agreed
today that there is nothing like good
clean milk This Is a fine propaganda
which deserves an the success 1t Is get
ting. You see milk recommended q
hundred different ways, and every way
Is the truth.
Many people live almost entirely on
milk in hot weather. 1t is not generally
known, perhaps, that the faint feeling
which overcQmes many persons in hot
weather, combined with slight touch of
nausea, may be overcome almost in
slowly in sips.
Milk, by the way, should never be
poured down. 1t may be combined with
fruit juices, too. A glass of milk in the
right hand, and glass of orange juice in
the other, alternate sips being taken and
mixed in the mouth, are a combination
which is the only way some persons can
eat orange. This combination is chock-
full of vitamins and minerals.
Relax few minutes each hour Is good
advice. Almost all Office workers can
do it. and should do it. Nose to the
grindstone is being increasingly shown
to be poor business, not good business.
Keeping the mind on the work, not on
the thermometer, is good advice, also, but
that Is really no reason why one
shouldn't be interested in record days in
the weather line. Records are records,
wherever you find them, and should be
treated with the respect which is their
normal due.
The rule about spending eight hours
in bed is excellent. Lying "in the raw"
on a nice clean bed at home is GER
tainly better way to keep cool than
lying all dressed up in a park some
where. Old-faShioned puritanical ideas
may give way to modernism easily on
q hot night. There Is just one caution:
If there Is any breeze at all, and one
does not change position in sleep, there
is some danger OF injury in this habit
of sleeping totally without clothing.
Temper the breeze-if you can find one
to the shorn back. At any rate lie down
quietly for at least eight hours on very
hot nights. There is no substitute.
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AS to what one should eat and drink
in hot weather, this is very large ques-
ton, any weather but it may be believed
that most persons who read at all nova
days have a fair general idea of the re-
quirements.
The discovery of the vitamins, those
accessory factors without which food is
not food, led to better understanding
on the part of the plain people that
natural, Impressed foods are best for
everybody.
Hence good clean milk (pasteurized but
not overpasteurized), raw oranges and
other fruits, including the tomato, pine
apple, etc. (the tomato Is fruit, not
vegetable), whole wheat fresh vegetables.
good butter, raw salads.
These constitute the basic Summer
foods, to which some meat and eggs
may be added, If one does not consume
at least five glasses of milk per day. The
great advantage of milk in hot weather
is that five glasses will supply the protein
requirements at the same time give
liquid to the system. Those who drink
plenty of milk seldom have much OF
hankering for other liquids.