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FOREST AND STREAM 
July 12, 1913 
Health Hints for Hot Weather 
By A. L. WOOD, M.D. 
M AN can control the temperature of his body, 
to a great extent, by what he puts into 
his stomach and what he leaves out of it. 
Foods and drinks of a heating, clogging and 
stimulating character should be carefully 
avoided. Alcoholic drinks of every description 
should be shunned. Meats should be eaten spar¬ 
ingly in hot weather, if at all, especially fat and 
salted meats and fish. Meat is both stimulating 
and heating. The less salt, pepper, mustard, 
vinegar and spices generally, the better. 
Highly starchy foods, as most of the cereals, 
and sweets, sugar and candy, should be used 
in moderation, as they are great heat producers. 
Bread, pastry, biscuits, cakes, etc., made of the 
ordinary white flour and also polished rice, are 
particularly objectionable as they are mostly 
composed of starch. 
Entire wheat bread and other articles made 
from the whole wheat flour or from the flour 
of other whole grains, and the Japanese un¬ 
polished rice are much to be preferred, as they 
contain less starch and more proteid or tissue¬ 
building materials. 
Butter, cream, nuts and oils, while desirable 
in cold weather, should be used sparingly in hot 
weather. Fruits, berries, melons, vegetables, 
green salads, milk and eggs, should constitute 
the bulk of the food eaten in the hot summer 
time. Buttermilk is excellent and it also helps 
to ward off autointoxication. 
By far the best drinks are pure cold water, 
not ice water, which is very bad, unless slowly 
sipped, and the juices of the different fruits, as 
grape juice, orange juice, lemonade, pineapple 
juice, the juices of the different berries, etc. 
There is nothing more delicious, cooling, 
satisfying and at the same time nourishing than 
the juices of ripe fruits. They are wholly good 
and entirely unobjectionable. Use sugar with 
them sparingly, if at all. Grape and some other 
fruit juices are better for some persons if di¬ 
luted with water. 
Drinking water should be soft and the 
purest that can be obtained. Distilled water is 
the safest and best. Drink water freely. The 
hotter the weather the more should be drunk. 
Two quarts per day should be the minimum 
quantity. 
Free water drinking is necessary for main¬ 
taining the proper fluidity of the blood to enable 
it to deposit the elements of nutrition in the 
tissues of the body to remove the waste, worn- 
out and poisonous matters from the body and 
to keep up the free flow of insensible perspira¬ 
tion so necessary for the regulation of the tem¬ 
perature of the body. 
Above all. do not eat too much. Every 
ounce of food taken into the stomach, beyond 
what is actually required for the nutrition of 
the body, imposes a burden upon the system to 
digest and afterward expel it from the body 
through the excretory organs as waste matter. 
Over-eating helps to bring on diseases of 
the stomach, liver, bowels, kidney and other 
parts and organs, dulls the action of the brain 
and weakens the body generally. 
One requires less food in hot than in cold 
weather, and the less the exercise of body and 
brain, the less food is needed. 
Breathe pure air and breathe lots of it. You 
can easily eat too much of the best food, but 
you cannot well breathe too much pure air. Get 
the habit of deep breathing. Be sure to have 
pure air to breathe at night as well as in the 
day time. Sleep with windows open top and 
bottom, or better yet, out of doors. Get plenty 
of sleep. Retire early and rise early. 
Take some kind of a bath every day and 
follow it with brisk rubbing with a coarse towel 
or the hands to keep the skin clean and active. 
A Turkish or other sweat bath once a week is 
very desirable. The insensible perspiration from 
an active skin does a great deal to keep down 
the temperature of the body. It is a great regu¬ 
lator of heat. 
Keep yourself pure and clean, not only phy¬ 
sically, but mentally and morally. 
Take moderate out-of-door exercise, as 
walking, rowing, etc., and follow it with a short 
period of rest and relaxation. 
Dress according to the weather. The 
warmer the weather the lighter the clothing, 
which should be light in color and of linen or 
cotton. 
Keep the bowels free and regular in their 
action. They should move at least once a day. 
Oftener is better. This is most important. The 
diet above indicated will usually insure this. 
When not sufficient, knead and manipulate them 
thoroughly with the hands and use free enemas 
of warm water. Do not use pills and purga¬ 
tives. They are not only unnecessary, but in¬ 
jurious. 
If at any time one feels uncomfortably 
warm, pour cold water over the wrists. This 
will soon cool the entire body without doing 
the slightest harm. 
Avoid draughts of air upon exposed parts 
of the body. The entire body may be exposed 
with comparative safety, while exposure of a 
small part is liable to cause colds. 
Avoid undue exposure to the direct rays of 
the sun in the middle of a hot day. 
Be temperate and moderate in all things. 
Avoid undue excitement and excesses in all 
things and do not hurry or worry. 
Follow the above directions, and there is 
not one chance in a million of your suffering 
unduly from the heat. 
Are Game Clubs of Service to the 
Commission? 
BY CHARLES R. STAPLE Y, DIVISION CHIEF OF ALLE¬ 
GANY, NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATION 
COMMISSION. 
About a hundred years ago some far-seeing 
men saw the necessity for some regulation in 
order that the natural supply of fish and game 
and the forests should not be destroyed. They 
undertook to have restrictive laws passed, but 
made little progress because of the lack of 
public sentiment. 
A man who has been in the habit of slyly 
violating the law, when taken into a club, sur¬ 
rounded by observers of the law, and brought 
under the influence of such men, ceases to 
become a violator and becomes an educator for 
general good. 
Clubs supervise the distribution of fish and 
game and become interested in their protection. 
They oppose illegal fishing and hunting and non- 
members sensing their feelings are careful not 
to offend them, and a spirit of fair dealing in 
fishing and hunting is established because of 
this influence. They understand conditions in 
their localities, and are able to assist the com¬ 
mission by suggestions and recommendations 
for the better enforcement of the law. 
A local club becomes in a measure a pro¬ 
tective force, a power for good in creating pub¬ 
lic opinion, and exacts respect for the law. 
Deer and their Habits. 
BY ROBERT NICHOLS, DIVISION CHIEF OF EASTERN 
ADIRONDACK DIVISION, NEW YORK STATE 
CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 
Fawns are born the latter part of April 
or early in May. They are spotted like the 
leopard, and are as innocent as lambs. The 
mother deer secretes them in some thicket or 
under some fallen tree, which lies up from the 
ground, where they remain so quietly that one 
may pass within a few feet of them and never 
see them. 
In the spring of the year the deer is quite 
poor in flesh and very tame and can be seen 
around the edge of clearings and along the 
shores of ponds and lakes, and very often one 
can get close enough to obtain a photograph. As 
the season advances, they become better condi¬ 
tioned and wilder, and rarely come out in the 
open in the day time. At night they seek food 
in the ponds and lakes, eating the lilypads. The 
blood suckers nearly always found on lilypads 
go to the stomach, and from there to the liver, 
poisoning-them, and from which many of them 
die. As the open season approaches, they run 
for miles at the least noise, the snapping of a 
twig, the barking of a dog t or the voices of a 
person, but they are not afraid of the shooting 
of a gun until they have been shot at and missed 
several times. After the hunting season they 
roam around in comparative safety, as there are 
not many violators when compared with the 
number of deer in the State and the many miles 
of forest inhabited by them. In the winter time 
they come together and keep along the hillsides, 
feeding on brush and ground hemlock until the 
snow gets quite deep, then they go down into 
the valleys and into the thick timber and remain 
until the snow begins to settle or until there is 
a crust to hold them, when they start out in 
search of different food. The food in winter 
consists of branches of spruce, balsam and cedar. 
They require less food and water than a domes¬ 
tic animal, but gladly welcome the green food 
in the early spring. 
The following clipping is from the Holland 
City News (Mich.) under the heading, “What 
You Saw in This Paper Thirty-Five Years ago”: 
“The wild pigeon catch at Petoskey still con¬ 
tinues and immense numbers are being shipped 
every week. Once a week a heavy shipment is 
made to Chicago by water, generally from sixty 
to eighty barrels, besides several hundred dozen 
live birds.” W. B. Mershon. 
