Cooling Rooms

The warm weather will shortly bo here, and ovory ono will bo seeking the refreshing inflnence of a shady placo, whoreunto thoy can retreat from the blazing sun ; so we will give our readers a few hints, concerning the cooling of their housea: The first necessity is a thoroujli draught. - This can ulways be obtained by opening every door and window in the basement, the top of every window above, and throwing eaoh door wide open ; but above all, be sure that tho trap door in the roof is open, and there is plenty of air from it down stairs, so that, whichever bo the direction of the wind there will at least be one ascending currcnt of air in the house. Another roquisite is shade. Our common slat shutters answer woll for the windows, but tho most cheap and convonient shelter for the roof is to cover it thiekly with straw, dried reeds or bushes. This will resist the influence of the noon-day sun, and keep tho garret almost as cool is the jasoment. Ono of the most simple mothods, and at the same timo cheapest means of artifioially lowering the temporature of ;he room, is to wet eloth of any size, the arger the better, and suspend it in the place you want cooling ; let a room be wcll ventilated, and the temporature will sink from ten to twonty degrees in less ;han half an hour. The above hints wil' be useful to many, and as a last suggession, we will inform tho reader that in summer it is well to keep a solution o: chloride of lime in tho house, and occasionally sprinkle it in tho more