HOT WEATHER HINTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 46, 18 November 1893, Page 429

HOT WEATHER HINTS.

KEEP CLEAN : KEEP COOL. As we are threatened with a hot summer, we ought to take special precautions with respect to our diains and drinking water. There are many good houses w here the drainage is enough, with a little provocation from heat and dry weather, to breed excellent cholera or diphtheria. There are other houses where the dirty water is quietly and systematically pitched out of the back-door, with no reference to the smell that too frequently arises from it. Bury or bum every scrap of waste food or rubbish or foul water. Boil and filter the drinking water. Eat plenty of good, sound fruit; not so much meat as in winter. Avoid all excesses. Dress loosely and sensibly. If you be a won.an, choose clean prints, muslins, and linens ; if a man, for the sake of your friends, leave off the hideous, foolish black coat and hard hat, and buy a linen, alpaca, or silk coat, and a decently shaded straw or pith hat-. Why should you get sunstroke because you are afraid your cool attire will not be considered nomine it faut. Once start it, and other men will speedily follow suit. In the North Island go to

sleep in the middle of the day and get up earlier and retire later. Keep your blinds down from 8 to 6 o’clock, and sleep with your windows open. We have yet a great deal to learn of the art of making ourselves comfortable, as we have likewise to learn that prevention is better than cure. We terrify ourselves with those summer bogies cholera, diphtheria, and fever, but take no piecautions against them while there is yet time.