TO COOL A ROOM IN SUMMER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2084, 8 September 1875, Page 3

TO COOL A ROOM IN SUMMER.

Australians will appreciate the hint contained in the following paragraph :— During the excessive heat of summer, when sitting within doors is even more conducive to discomfort than walking at ft moderate pace out of doors, it may be useful to bear in mind a simple application —practicable by anyone—of a natural law, which will enable a professional man to write without the slightest inconvenience from the heated atmosphere. Every child at school learns something about the influence of water in modifying ilimate, and and any person, however ill-informed, who has passed through a floricultural exhibition, or a building like the Crystal Palace, must have noticed how gratefully cool the atmosphere always is in the immediate neighbourhood of fountains playing. Just the same general lowering of our temperature may be produced in any private sitting-room, without the expense of fountains. A basin, or a dish large enough to present, a large surface, filled with water, and placed on the centre of a tJHe in^fcae fore part of the day is amply siMicent for the purpose; the writer has eveu found an ordinary glass tumbler full of water renewed once (late in the afternoon) potential enough when he sat all the day engaged in reading and writing in a small study, on the hottest day we have had during four years past The hot air takes up the water in the form of atmospheric vapour, and, enacting in little the part of the clouds, diffuses the greater coolness of the water throughout the room until both air and water are at the same point; when that is attained, if the heat of the day be not spent, the water needs renewing. Of course, the effect does not depend upon any specific form of vessel. This may be plain, or it may be ornamental ; it may take the form of a table decoration ;it may even—this hint for the ladies and for artists—be a species of well with a flower-pot- springing from the centre, the welcome perfumes of which , shall be borne together with cooling influences by the water-charged air; there is only one condition imperative—viz., that free contact of air and wator over the whole surface of the latter shall not be obstructed. —Home News.