The Dawson News

How to Keep Cool.

Now that Old Probabilities has turned on the hot weather with a firm hand and a fervid disposition, people will be inquiring how to keep cool.

As a matter of fact, common sense persons need no advice on the subject. They are cool under all circumstances and conditions, unless it is when they run to catch a street car that has been sent off by a time-keeper who has no watch.

The way to keep cool is to keep good-humored. There is no doubt that good-humored men sometimes get warm, owing to the fact that they are jolly and fat, but no one ever heard them complaining about the weather to any great extent, unless it is when they are caught out in a shower without an umbrella.

The Washington Post says that the way to keep cool is to eat sparingly of meat; but this is nonsense. The coolest and most agreeable person on earth is the meat-eater, and the most irritable and unhappy is the person whose digestion will not permit him to eat meat.

Eat lean meat—tender steak and chicken—with your vegetables, and you will have no trouble with the heat. Pork should be avoided, of course; but veal, mutton and all the vegetables, pot-liquor and dumplings, buttermilk and corn bread, go to make up a dinner to be enjoyed.

Above all things, let ice alone. It is a most deceptive affair. It is not only the nidus of microbes and bacteria, but it is unhealthy even when it is pure. It paralyzes the stomach, ruins the digestion, and leads to Bright's disease.

If you will drink, as you ought to, drink water fresh from the wells. If you want it seasoned give it a touch of lemon and sugar; but let ice alone. Ice is much colder than it is in the winter, and it is no more healthy at one season than at another.

We are giving some famous advice here; but the best thing, after all, is to keep in a good humor. The good humored man may get too hot occasionally, but it doesn't worry him; and the man who isn't worried cares little for the heat.—Constitution.