HOW TO KEEP WARM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 63

HOW TO KEEP WARM.

How to keep warm is so pressing a subject with many at this moment that; it tempts me (says the writer of the " Research Notes " In the Pall Mall Gazette) to give the advice of the well-known scientific writer, li. Gabriel Prevost, on the point. Much, he thinks, can be done by practice, and he is clearly of opinion that if we could break ourselves- in to do without clothing at an early age, we. .should suffer less from cold snap in aiter life. This apart, his i-adVice is almost a series of "don'ts;.''

Don't, he says, wear heavy clothes which expose you to tfe) risk of a sudden check of perspiratiorA Bather wear one or two extra layers of light clothing, with the* "chimneys," as he calls them, of the wrists and anldes scientifically plugged.

Don't heat your rooms over -much ; for to really prevent radiation, and consequentloss of heat by this means, you woiild have to sit in a temperature of 85dee, which

would infallibly give yon a chilL-when you went into the cold air.

Don't drink too much alcohol, which has hardly any warming properties, but eat an increased quantity of sugar and fat.

Finally, don't take violent, by which he means exhausting, exercise, but do something that keeps your hands and feet moving.

To which may be added tlie Canadian plan of putting on your outer garments a little time before you go out of doors, so as to take as much warmth as possible out with you.