Evening star., 1948-07-09
This and That
Bu Charles E. Trace,UeH

The everyday round Of existence suddenly
struck Templeton Jones in the face like wet
towel.
You 20 down to the office every morning,
and you come home every night
The next day. you go down to the once, anu
come home at night
You go down to the office, and come home
again.
You 20 down town, and in the evening you
retrace your steps.
Jones didn't realize It, but the preacher, in
Ecclesiastes, had much the same thought
The idea Of the utter uselessness OF 1t all
came to Templeton Jones most forcibly when
he was trying to get dry on hot day. Inc
hottest day.
What do you do, each day, he wanted to
know?
You take BATH and then you try to get
dry.
You come home, and you take bath, and
you try to get dry.
The next morning, you are just as damp as
ever. so what do you do?
Oh you take bath, and try to get dry
You 20 down town-there is that song again
YOU come home take a bath,~ and attempt
to remove all the water you have just put on.
at seems rather silly" says Jones, but 1t
helpsl"
The many ways human beings try to keep
cool are interesting.
Some go to the park. lie on the grass ana
let ants crawl down their neck.
Others use fans.
Fans NAV have their uses, Jones says. but ne
doesn't know what they are, except to peek
from behind
other cool seekers play games, get in
good sweat, and then firmly oeclare thaC
they feel cooler
Maybe they do --
Others like to go on picnics, and meet some
of those ants again. Others take on as mucn
clothes as they dare, even IN olo-iaSlioheo
households. Others are inclined to believe that
ice cold drinks will DO it.
Wherever you CO. on sucn days. you iiiio
people trying to keep cool.
The Joke of it. Jones believes, is that they
are still damp. .,.s
There is perfection of temperature and
relative humidity. ne asserts, from which one
may Judge of less pleasant days
Is the temperature 80 degrees!
Is the relative humidity so?
"Fiftv what?" we asked Jones
"I don't know" he answered, but Hs oo
something" Perhaps as GOOD an answer aS
any, on a hot day.
Jones believes that slightly damp towels
are better in real hot humid weather, than
totally dry ones
Use plenty of towels, he advises, but do
not bother too much about their relative dry
ness.
Natures moisture welled up out OF the sink
of iniouitv, as we humans used to be called,
ioins a little free moisture imbedded IN
toweling.
The two of them do fairly good job first OF
cooling. and then of drying, provided one
takes the towel away after 1t has done as
much good as 1t will.
1t will only do as much good as it can, ne
insists so there is no use of worrying about
the matter.
Heat and cold follow one another. First it
is hot fer a few days, then it is cold Temple
ton Jones said First it is hot, he said, and
then it is cold For few days we sweat. then
we shiver. After that, it gets hot again,
storm blows up, and it cools off.
1t gets hot again. storm blows up, and 1t
gets cool for a few hours Or days. But as
surely as the sun Shines in a few more days
it will be hot again, and then a thunderstorm
comes up, and after that no doubt it will cool
OIL But Jones wouldn't 60 so far as to scream,
vanity of vanities, all things are vanity!'
He Is not so sure about that, because he u not
sure exactly what It means.