Suggestions for summer.

Suggestions for summer. During an overheated period the temperature of a sitting or a bed room can be lowered by hanging in the open doorway a sheet wrung out of cold water, which will at once temper the breeze blowing through it. Drinking water, where ice cannot be procured, can be cooled sufficiently to satisfy the most fastidious taste, by setting on the cellar bottom a porous earthen jar filled with water, and tying about it a cloth likewise kept wet. Radiation from the surface keeps down the heat. Water that has been kept in jars or bottles within the ice-box but not in contact with the ice (also distilled water) is often objected to on account of a flat taste. To obviate this, pour the water, just before serving, from one pitcher to another in order to aerate it.