How To Keep Cool

A correspondent furnishes the London Times with tho following hints, which si be found pertinent to our owu clinate : In these hot days ft cooí apartment is a real luxurjr to be had fur oftener than BOSi people suppose possible. The secret ;omits, not iu letting in cool air, for naturally all do whenever they have the ï banco ; but in keeping out the hot air. [f the air outsido a room or house be jooler than the air insidej lot it in by all mean8 ; but iï it bo hottor, earefülly keep it out. A stair-caso window left open daling bhe night will oi'ten eool the passages ot houso, and the rooms, too, if thoir doors ba notshut; but it must be closed at 8 ot 9 o'clouk in the niorning, or if' on the sinniy üide, at 4 or 3 o'eloek, and the blind drawn down. Tho mistake people e;enerally make is to throw opeil fcheil windows at all lloürs of the day, no matter whether the air outside be cool or scorching. Let us have soniR air, they say, and in Comes the treacheroiis breeze - for even hot air is pleaaent whilo it ia gently blowin'_', taking nwny petgpiratiöri, and thereby cooling the skin ; but the apartment is made warmer instead ot' coolfir, and as soon as they move out of the draught they find thoir room to be more uncomfurtable t)?.an bet'ore. Let in cool air- koop out hot - that is the only formula to insure the minimum of diseomfoi t. Sitting rooms may getierally be kept cool during tho whoïe day if tho doors be only opetied for ingress and egTess, and the windows kept closed and shinlded from direct sunshine by blind. If the atmosphere of a roum be imijure from any daüse; let it be renewed ; hot air is less iujurious tlian bad air. If a room be small in comparison with tli': nnmfaer of persons engaged in it. free ventilation, becoines indispensable. In a cooking apartmont the temporature will probably be higher than outside, henee the free admissidn, even of hot air rill be desired. If persons do not object to sit in a direct draught of air, windows and doors may be oponed, a breeze being more refreshing, pven though several dogrees wanner than still air; but under ïmarly all other circumstanoes, rooms should be kept closed as much as possible until after sundown, or till the air outside is cooler than that inside. Let in cool air ; keep out hot.