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Show V FOOD AND DRINK IN SUMMER. 3o Not Drink Too Much, Eat Sparingly Sparing-ly of Animal Food To keep the skin In a proiier condl Hon during the varying seasons of the year Is always a matter of gnat dim oulty that Is to say as far as n de gree of dryness of molntnea Is cou corned To secure the happy Medium Is most peoples ambition 1 have on previous occasions dlscuoed tie cause and prevention of ivmlir perspiration, hut at this time of vtar when nil the atmospheric and Hiie.iblo causes are present fur the prodiiulm of overactivity of thi sweat glnnlx it may not be Inappmprlati to r. i . it what I have said In fun h Hi tlvlty of these glint In ih lot weather la Natures lneih.nl o( n lining lin-ing the bodily teu)H latin. md further, within limits the :. I :i ol sweat la to be If not uitoui u t at least accepted aa Inevitable rin- only queatlon, therefore that m d lie i on slderetl la how to restrict I hi ntnoiitit within reasonable (mint Ihe most obvious means of preventlnr an ex. cesshe secretion of water on the skin Is to restrict the actual Intake or fluid Into the body In hot weather iiiimt people drink n ttreat deal more than they do on other occasions and It 1 quite certain that the more we drink the greater the thirst, and consequent, ly there Is a tendency for the amount to Increase In somewhat alarming ratio In hot countries It Is found that the best way to prevent thlrat I to re. strict tho Intake of fluid to n very considerable con-siderable degree This Is certainly a very disagreeable form of moral self discipline In tho first instance but nf ter tho Initial discomforts havo been overcome the reward Is quite com-mensurntu com-mensurntu with the trouble taken Whatever view may be taken with ro gard to tho amount of fluid actually taken, there can be no doubt whatsoever whatso-ever tint alcoholic beverages of over; kind have far more jKitvat Inlluencei on the production of sweat than havo simple teetotal or nonalcoholic beverages, bever-ages, such a lemonade or diluted lima Juice Komi also has n very Important In. flutneo for b Its combustion within the bod) there Is n corresKindlng production pro-duction of heat which has to bo ills slpatcd In soma nay or other A very restricted diet should thertforo alwas bo enjoined In hot weather Vege-tables Vege-tables and fruit, which consist for tlio most part of water ami contain but llttlo combustible material, nro obviously ob-viously adapted to tho conditions ot high atmospheric temieraturcs Ant. inal fond, egg, butter, oils, and fats of nil kinds. Inasmuch us (heir com bustloti Is effected with tho production produc-tion of much heat, should bo avoided as far as possible Uxcrclso, although It must bo admitted ad-mitted that It Is temporarily accompanied accompa-nied by the production of freo porspl ration, la of nil means tho best for producing a subsequent lowering ot the bodily temperature and for limit Ing the secretion of tlio sweat glands, and (his I so for tho reason that thu combustlblo material In tho body Is used up In the production of actual work Instead of being converted directly di-rectly Into heat, which must bo dlssl paled b means of the evaporation of sweat |