Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-08
This and That
By Charles E. Traceuen

II tolerate these bitter cold winter months
only because it makes spring and summer more
beautiful writes friend, with more truth
than poetry.
And goes on to pine for "the warm DAYS of
W degrees in the shade, sun bathing on the
tan"
Well, We can all say amen to that.
surely summer has charms all its own and to
many people the best of them aside from not
feeling cold, will be the sunshine
An inventor in New England-out Boston
Way-haS cooked up heating device utilizing
the rays of the sun alone
There is no chimney, because none is needed
Inc neat is caught in giant reflectors. and
plped down to the basement and held in great
pms, from which it is distributed as needed
to the rooms
II is said that even little as 10 days of
sunshine winter will suffice to keep the house
at ~ degrees even in zero temperature
II summer comes again land it should) We
never VIII complain again about the heat
Or. at least, that is the way one feels in the
snow, ice and bitter winds OF wintertime.
IL is all very well to sing about wandering in
a winter wonderland, but the thing has it's
disadvantages. Cold feet, and wind down ones
neck
There is something especially disagreeable
there to certain souls.
Wind down the back of the neck! Certain
persons complain of cold nowhere else but just
around the neck.
Accordingly, they bundle up with mun1ers.
colorful gifts of the winter gods to suffering
mortals.
Normally people fail to give thanks for the
good things they have.
The mans muf1er is one eve believe that
the ladies call them scarfs, or scarves, or some
thingD
mo thn 'rniJ I-tL anil
commonly called muffiers. They come in silk,
poplin (whatever that Isl, and wool. Give us
the wool every time.
Wool is held in poor repute by dermatolo-
gists who frown upon it as the cause of many
mysterious itches
ITS your wool suit they say, the moment
they look at a man, and mostly they are right
Take off the suit, and the itch vanishes
But when the winds do blow, and the tenn
perature is down to Is degrees Fahrenheit, the
wool cannot be beat.
Wrapped firmly around the neck, 1t keeps
out the wind and the shiverS.
Some men say that the mufdler is the most
important piece of clothing they wear in the
cold. that they could get along better without
a coat than without muffler
Winter is the wrappedup time, and some
people cannot stand to be wrapped up.
One may sympathize with the young fellows
who refuse to wear hats in the cold.
Doctors say the habit will give them sinus
trouble later on but certainly for the time
being they enjoy not being hemmed in.
Fenced in" as the song had it. There are
many ways to fence a man in, some of them
mental.
We read about man who set out in his
car in a snow storm. and soon became almost
frantic to escape the all-pervasive whiteness.
And that was all he knew, in his old self, for
two years His mind, evidently, had seized upon
the chance of being hemmed in to leave the
reservation altogether. 1t was called amnesia,
but one may wonder what it was
Probably few persons ever forget who they
are in the summertime 1t is too happy,
then And not the least happy phase is that
of suntanning.
Sunburning the old-timers called it, and
probably they were nearer right, as most en-
thusiasts know, if they do not use some sort
of suntan oil or cream.
1t is not generally realized, perhaps, that
ordinary wintertime hand lotion, SO beloved
of the ladies, does very good job of prevent
ing the real hurt of too much sunburn.
A good application, we'll rubbed in, will pre-
vent the soreness and itch of real sun burn"
and at the same time will keep the skin from
blistering. So don't throw your hand lotion
away in the spring. 1t can be used In the
summer, too.