1937-05-27 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1937.

A Dozen Ways

HERE are as many "systems"

TH

Ways To Keep Cool

yourself!

the same reason,

to beat hot weather as there Too hot for you? Here are some new tips for cool- good habita the house

ing off in torrid weather-

are to beat the horses or the roulette wheel. Some of them are just about as questionable.

Take the Lockout "system," for instance, which consists of shutting the windows to lock out the heat.

drive.

Peace At

is

the best that science makes you hotter than bickering.

Price.Nothing

has to offer. You may find that it isn't the heat, About thousand people die but the stupidity

every summer from heatstroke in the United States. In 1934, which was a record scorcher, 3,250 people

It still ropes in millions of backers all is a cup or two of hot tea along thirty-two minutes. The white rab- died from direct exposure to the every summer, and few of them can about four in the afternoon, when bits completely recovered after the sun. But doctors agree that aside be convinced that it won't work, the heat is at its worst.

Tea same exposure.

from those who expose themselves One friend of mine who had in- withdraws blood from the surface

Why? Because black absorbs too long, usually in an attempt to where you veigled me out of the frying pan of of the skin,

are most heat faster than any other colour- get a beautiful sunburn, most heat the city into the fire of his country conscious of the heat. Then, too, White deflects it most effectively. deaths are due to preliminary com- house for a week end, pointed with hot drinks, like hot baths, tend to The latter colour, however, while plications which were already exist- pride to the solid wall of drawn cool rather than heat you.

admittedly the most heat-resisting, ing in the person, since intense at- shades and closed windows which The worst thing you can do is to nevertheless absorbs sunrays, which mospheric heat has a bad effect on confronted us as we came up the cling to the idea that because it's are exhausting to highly strung, all sufferers from disease.

hot your body does not need any nervous people and particularly to As for sunburning, there's a blonds. Nerve specialists have dis- technique to it. It depends on a "Just you wait till you see how When you feel hot and worn covered that when absolute white is substance in your skin known as cool it is inside!" he exclaimed, out," a doctor said to me, "it may worn by patients of these types, it melanin (from the Greek word for catching my baleful eye.

be that you are only hungry with has markedly harmful effects, even black). It is the substance of pig- I discovered that I had felt rooms out knowing it. Go out and eat a leading to certain skin diseases. mentation and protects you from considerably hotter than those, but, good meal, a couple of chops or The coolest colours to

heat prostration by absorbing the not without first giving 50 cents to broiled liver. You'll feel cooler from the grueling Army tests are, sunrays before they get under the the Turkish bath attendant.

afterwards. And for heaven's sake in order, white (with the exceptions skin and do you harm. The only time the Lockout don't think you don't need meat in mentioned), khaki, light blue, gray, Now, if you're a blond, it's a "system" works is when there's no summer! If you don't eat the fat, yellow, brown, and dark blue. The sign you haven't as much melanin chance to get a passage of air the lean of meat is actually cooling, popularly labelled "hot" colour of in your skin as the next fellow, so through the rooms, as in a small because it's so nourishing."

red came out a surprising winner. take nature's warning that you are

nourishment.

'summer.

creases the sense of heat.

By Wilson Chamberlain

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apartment where there is only one For the hot-weather experts Heat tests established the fact that just not meant to look like an In- exposure and where the front door Evaporation is the Word that red worn next to the skin shuts out dian god. If you have too much cannot be left open or gives onto brought order- out of chaos. It certain rays of the sun, though when melanin you're going to freckle the dead end of an elevator door. sounds simple, but sometimes it's used for outer garments it in- But, since hydrogen and chlorine

The perfect way to keep the difficult to regulate.

both absorb melanin, there are a rooms cool is to have the windows For example, there is the recent. Habits have as much to do with dozen preparations, you can use to open both top and bottom, likewise case of a man born without any keeping cool have all doors open.

as, have clothes and reduce freckles. Don't draw sweat glands. A young labourer, food.

But, whichever type you are, do the shades, as they will prevent air he fell ill whenever he was exposed from coming in at the bottom of to the rays of the

For example, you really ought to your sun-tanning in the early morn- the windows and going out at the

sun. brush your teeth twice as frequent- ing and late afternoon. Because the light is slanting then, the more top. Venetian blinds or even old-

dangerous actinic rays will not get fashioned shutters are better. They

“at you so quickly. Naturally, put keep out the sun, and at the same

on a film of oil. That will make time allow free circulation of air. The doctors working on him found ly in summer as in winter. Partly you as golden-as- Frem

But the most popular, ab-so-lute- that he couldn't perspire, so they because the food particle decay potato; while, if you don't oil, ly infallible cooling “system” of all cleverly resorted .to artificial more quickly in the heat, partly be you'll get black and blistere ike an is probably the Eat-Less "system." evaporation by enveloping him in a cause in very hot weather you are overdone one!

This is a favourite of the con- wet shirt! As long as he keeps it more subject to mouth diseases," Taking it all in all, the art of scientious housewife, who sees a wet he can carry on with his work partly because there is nothing more keeping cool shoils itself, down to a way to save money by cutting down minus discomfort and danger! refreshing than having a cool, clean question of having a little less sum- on the food budget, while at the On the same principle a wet mouth: In fact, you should gen- mèr enthusiasm, as one doctor same time serving what she believes towel around your head will bring erally bathe much more frequently neatly put it, and a little more sum- are ideal hot-weather menus. Iced you quick relief from the heat. in summer.

mer sense.→ cantaloupe, hard-boiled eggs, vege-

As you know, when there's too Because a hot day makes you Those trying to get out from table salad beautifully chilled, much moisture in the air there's no tense in trying to hold on to what under the rays of another scorching strawberry jelly, and iced coffee evaporation. Then we all nod our little energy you have, all your day can be divided into two classes: make up a beautifully cool-sounding heads wisely and sadly and say, senses are quickened. Watch peo- those who are figuratively meal. The trouble is that the peo- “It's not the heat it's the ple jump at a motor horn which crazy with the heat and those who ple

who can't bear to face a humidity!" But the same thing they'd hardly notice in winter really have astered the technique sizzling steak and mashed potatoes happens when there's not enough Watch them in summer are apt to overdo it and moisture. Wise folk hang wet

eat nothing but chilled, practically sheets at the foot and head of their frozen foods. These, when taken to beds on stifling nights. excess, can put such a burden on Naturally, the perfect way to the stomach muscles that in the end keep the house cool is by having it you

may feel warmer than air-conditioned. - The price for this ever!

excessive at present, but air- So what can a man believe? conditioning manufacturers predict What works and what doesn't? that the mom is just beginning: What cooling system should you Buthare's a bit of advice for back when the temperature hits the those of us who meet air condition- ceiling? These are the questions ing mostly in theatre, ball

and which I, as a reporter, have been restaurants. ake a coat with you: asking of doctors........

Coming off the streets where it's 90 in the shade into a movie where it's 70 în the dark can give you a riproaring cöld, ------

Probably the best tips you can take when Old Man Sol is glaring down" at you red-faced come from Army doctors who have worked out some really neat tricks to save the ideal material. lives of soldiers in the tropics.

For summer dresses, linen is the

Of course, the prize boner we They have found, for instance, men pull in summer is to wear that the beat daily food is hot belts. Nothing could be hotter. cornbread! It's one of the most They ke

fire burning in many a

nourishing, ~quickly digested foods bay, window which could easily be there is. And above all it keeps put out. the body functioning regularly.

As for colours in clothes, United Another doctor has solved the States and British Army doctors have devoted years of research to problem of summer thirst.

“When nothing seems to quench determine the degree of heat- your thirst, he told me, "try put- resisting power of every colour in the ting a few drops of vinegar in a rainbow. crateful of sturdy irab- tall-glass of water. If vinegar, bits makes you react with a wry face, Mani use lemon. ; And drink at least six- xpe teen glasses of water a day.”

Out in India they have discovered that the best hot-weather drink

atly-employed in tlingly conclusive After thirty-three the sun, all the black

had died of sunstroke: The bits lasted one hour and

but don't jump, of keeping cool.

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