298 COOL ADVICE. 



cleanliness, will give them half the serenity and comfort they will obtain 

 from stopping at home ; that when the thermometer ranges above 80° in 

 the shade, the impact of the sun's rays is positively and directly injurious 

 to the constitution, producing physical deteriorations which may affect 

 them for life. Kot only are the effects of a sunstroke permanent, and liable 

 to reappear on hot days even in cold climates, but the effects of exposure to 

 the sun, though not producing sunstroke, are often recognizable for years, 

 producing, among other well-ascertained consequences, a distinctly sepa- 

 rate liability to be affected by any form of alcohol— the key, we believe, to 

 the extraordinary mischief drink works among the southern races, and 

 the key also, most fortunately for them, of their instinctive aversion to 

 liquor. It is not the heat, but the light of the sun, which produces these 

 consequences, for a good umbrella prevents them ; and the man who must 

 be abroad in the light of days like last Tuesday should carry one as care- 

 fully as he does when he is only afraid of spoiling his hat. Two seconds 

 will sometimes do the mischief, and he had much better bear being told 

 that he is careful of a bad complexion than incur a permanent liability to 

 suffer whenever he takes a glass with a friend. JSText to keeping quiet, 

 and as much out of the glare as possible, is the use of cool water in pro- 

 fusion, and that not only to drink, though water drinking is probably bene- 

 ficial. Nature makes very few blunders, and the dislike of repeated 

 draughts of water, which is shared, we believe, even by some physicians, 

 is as irrational as would be a dislike of stokers to put on fuel where fire is 

 needed. All the tropical races in summer drink hard of water — even the 

 Eengalese, who, by pouring it straight into their throats, lose all its pleas- 

 ant coolness in the mouth. TheJNew York Times, wq see, objects to iced- 

 water. but the New York Times is only laughing at the teetotalers through 

 a bizarre use of their alarmist phraseology. Water iced till it trembles on 

 the verge of solidification, and taken after a full meal, may injure some 

 weak stomachs; but water iced till it has the temperature of a cool spring 

 will hurt nobody at any time or in any quantity whatever that an ordinary' 

 appetite is likely to crave. One would think, to hear some people talk, 

 that thirst was in itself a good, instead of a symptom of exhaustion. But 

 water has other qualities than the allaying of thirst. It has a permanent 

 determination to evaporate, which nature obeys, and, as it cannot evapor- 

 ate without heat, it positively diminishes in the process the heat of our 

 rooms. Pans of water, the cooler the better, stationed about a bedroom will 

 positively reduce, not the sensation of heat, but the heat itself. Let any- 

 body who doubts that have his tub, with its shallow depth and wide surface, 

 filled with spring-water, or water with a good block of ice in it, and placed 

 in his bedroom, and mark in half an hour how many degrees the thermome- 

 ter has fallen. It ought to be 6° at least, and will be 8° if he is not stingy 

 with his ice, and the improvement, equivalent in comfort to a fire on a win- 

 ter's night, will last for hours. If that is still insufficient, let him throw 

 up his bedroom windows, fasten an old blanket or traveling-rug across the 



