The Perrysburg Journal

Hints For Keeping Cool.

To preserve the system in a cool and healthy
state during the extreme hot weather of summer,
the diet should consist as much as possible of
fruits, vegetables, and farinaceous food, and the
lighter kinds of meats. The fruit should be per-
fectly ripe and fresh from its parent stem, and
should be eaten in the earlier and middle part
of the day. Its nutritive propensities are not
very great, but it serves to neutralize the acids
in the stomach, and acts as a general corrective
to the system. In the warmer climates of South
America, Spain, and Italy, where fruit abounds,
the inhabitants freely partake of it an hour or
two before breakfast, and during the middle of
the day, but never after: they holding to the
Spanish maxim that fresh and ripe fruit is gold
in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
The people of these tropical climates perform very
little active labor during the extreme heat of the
day, but generally remain inactive and under
cover, in habitations constructed with a view
to coolness. The best mode of keeping buildings
cool and free from flies during the "dog days,"
is to open all the windows and doors for an
hour or two before sunrise, so as to fill every
accessible portion of the building with the cool
fresh air of the morning, and then to close them
sufficiently to keep out the sun and light. The
cold air within will serve as a barrier to the en-
trance of the heat during the day, and the dark-
ness to the entrance of the flies and other in-
sects.--Scientific American.