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Show HOT WEATHER With the thermometer hitting 108 last Sunday, the great topic of conversation is of course, "the heat". The other day we were crossing the street when a car from one of the middle western states drove up. There was an elderly eld-erly couple in the car and one could readily see that they thought they had come to the hottest place in the country and with their mental attitude were making the heat much worse than it actually was. That people have a fear and misunderstanding of heat was shown when the man in this car turned to his wife and said, "Come on mother let's get a drink of water", and she replied, "Why we wouldn't dare drink when we are so hot." The notion that hot weather is enervating is largely a mental state. Every athlete knows that his muscles are more supple and his endurance is greater on hot days than on cool ones. Horsemen will tell you that the fastest racing records are made on hot days. Horses, not being troubled with self-analysis self-analysis or self-pity, run the best when their muscles are most responsive. As a matter of fact, perspiring is a wonderful house cleaning for the body; it flushes the poisons out of the blood. It also cools the skin and equalizes the body temperature temper-ature because evaporation is a cooling process. ' Hot sunshine is a powerful oxidizing agent. It builds up the red corpuscles. The sun is the chief source of physical physi-cal life in man as it is in plants. To get yourself in a happy mental state in hot weather, think of perspiration as a magical blood purfier, and sunshine sun-shine as a golden, strength-giving tonic. Be thankful for summer's heat instead of grumbling. You'll find new happiness and inspiration out of the right mental attitude toward the most joyous and healthy season of the year. |