KEEP COOL IN HOT WEATHER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 540, 8 February 1913, Page 5

KEEP COOL IN HOT WEATHER.

THE PREVENTION OF SUNSTROKE. How to keep cool is a vexed queson thase days. Primarily we must lot worry, hurry, or excite ourselves. Out how shall we not worry ? Simply, don't. It is safe to say that aine-tenths of our troubles have lever happened. And when has worry done us any good ? The not-wor-rying habit can be acquired far ?asier than most persons imagine.

Don't hurry. Rise early, thus giving yourself ample time to dress, and when you go out, walk leisurely. If you miss a train, wait coolly for the aext one, which will carry you to your destination only a few minutes later. This hurrying habit is very heating. Don't get excited. If you do you will feel literally "hot round the collar." If you are angry and wish to make the other fellow hot, you will do this most effectually by keeping cool. Don't study the thermometer, for your temperature is likely to rise with the mercury.

Wear loose-fitting clothes, easy round the neck, and a light-weight straw hat. Women, if they must wear corsets, should affect only the light, flexible kind.- Take a cold plunge bath, or swim, every day, using soap twice a week, to keep the pores thoroughly cleansed and open. The bath may be taken at any convenient time —about half an hour before a meal or two hours after. THE BEST DIET AND THE RIGHT REST. Sleep on a rather hard mattress and on a low pillow, leaving the windows and door of the bedroom open so as to create a draft through. It is well in this climate to have a :ouple of light blankets throws over the bottom of the bed, where they will be handy if needed. Don't go to bed until you feel tired enough to sleep. If you can't sleep then, don't try to. Read something light instead, and you will soon drift off to the land of dreams. Trying to sleep will keep one awake. Some persons are wakeful because they are hungry; the remedy in this case is obvious. A warm bath will often induce sleep. Our diet in hot weather should be light and nutritious. We say "nutritious" because excessive heat lowers vitality,: which would be further lowered by a poor diet. Eggs, milk, fish, the various shellfish and chicken are nutritious and non-heating. Fish is • largely nitrogenous, and contains very little fat. Salmon, mackerel, eels, and herrings, have more fat. The green vegetables, comprising lettuce, asparagus, spinach, celery, onions, and tomatoes, are useful in that they contain considerable water, a prime requisite in hot weather. But the red meats, bacon, pork, beans, peas, and potatoes are rathei heavy and heating, and so should be avoided. Strawberries and other of the subacid fruits are laxative, cool the blood and furnish plenty ol water. No stimulating drinks should be taken in the hot weather; lemonade may be, but in any case you may drink cool water, with meals, and before retiring at night. A large quantity of water and sufficient fruit will keep the system active, remove waste also,, and cool the body by radiation. The deleterious effect oh the system of too much alcohol, particularly in hot weather, is well known. Many cases of prostration and sunstroke can be attributed indirectly to this cause. SUNBURN CURE AND FOOT EASE. We have said nothing as yet ol the importance of regular exercise at this season. But proper exercise will do more to tone the body to resist the weakening effects of heat than all the most careful hygienic measures combined. If, when out of doors, you should experience a sudden faintness or giddiness, seek the shade and rest, taking a cold bath as soon after as possible. The recognised treatment of the sunstroke,is to plunge the patient into iced water and keep him there. The underclothing should be of cotton —cotton next the skin. The old worship of woollen underclothing was not always sound. The irritation o! sunburn may be subdued by applying sour-milk to the skin, or the following prescription, which' we owe to Dr. William Henry : Dilute lactic acid (10 per cent.), 2 drms. ; glycerine, Joz. ; white rose essence, li drms. ; benzoin tincture, 1 drm. ; and distilled water to 6ozs. The feet will (always be dry and hard if a little very finely powdered boracic acid be dusted over them each night and in th£ morning before the footwear is donned. The following may he better fox feet that, perspire very freely : Salicyclic acid, 3 parts ; boracic acid, If parts ; talc, 87 parts, and add lfl drops of eucalyptus oil.