[ 37° 1 



zard. (Economy, as well as humanity, pleads 

 loudly in behalf of fuch indulgence. 



Inferior, yet ft ill confiderable degrees of heat, 

 although they need not preclude work in the open 

 air, ftill have need of fome cautions refpecting 

 them. It is not uncommon to obferve a degree of 

 impatient anxiety which accompanies fome people 

 in every action of life. This prevails among the 

 lower as well as higher ranks of mankind, and often 

 proves a fource of fatigue and toil, without expe- 

 diting labour. Calmnefs and compofure are ne- 

 ceflary to the corporeal as well as the mental ope- 

 rations, and tend greatly to prevent the bad effects 

 of excefs of ftimulus of any kind. 



As the head is the part principally expofed to the 

 action of the folar rays, it is particularly necelTary 

 to ufe fome defence for that part. Hats are ufed 

 for this purpofe, but the black colour of which they 

 are generally made, caufes them to abforb the heat, 

 and of confequence to accumulate it in the very 

 part on which we mould lead defire it to fall. Hats 

 for working people in hot weather fhould be made 

 of ftraw, or fome light fubftance of a white or pale 

 colour, and with brims fufficiently wide to fhelter 

 both the head and moulders from the fcorching 

 beams of the fun. Even a piece of white paper 



covering 



