Keeping Cool

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 32

Keeping Cool

Summer Precautions T® you had to be one or the other, would you rather be too hot or too cold? Most people, I believe, think the lesser evil is to be too cold. Somehow, it seems easier to get warm when too cold, and that there is a greater degree of torment in being too hot. How often we hear the remark, "Oh, yes, it would be lovely weather if one hadn’t anything to do. It’s too hot to work," Yet, how easy it is to keep cool, both oneself and the house, where intelligent use of electricity is made A portable fan, which will keep flies from the kitchen, can be moved to any other point where a gentte, cooling breeze would be appreciated, over baby’s cot. in the dining-room or sitting-room, or plugged in just where you want it. A refrigerator will take care of perishable food-stuffs, as well as chill salads, drinks, etc., while the use of an electric range or cooking apparatus will prevent the rise of temperature in the kitchen, which is so distressing to the cook. A sensible adjustment of the menu. too, will do much to correct the effects of hot weather upon both the bodily health and the frayed tempers of the inmates of the household, and well repay a little thought on the part of the house-keeper. In stmmer, especially, salads are popular, and green food can supply the bulk which the average diet ueeds. As nature’s "sun foods," containing vitamins and minerals in abundance, they are esseutial to proper nutrition. Ices. too, are quickly prepared with the aid of a refrigerator, and can be really nourishing. All summer drinks are improved by the addition of a little ice, and salads rendered more palatable by being slightly chilled.