The heat, indeed, has been intense, and of unusual' persistence. For four or five ys in succession it has reached over ninety degrees in the shade in London, and yesterday it touched 94, which is the highest for many years. Every year as the un travelled Briton forms a smaller proportion of the whole population people get more sensible in the matter of dress in the hot weather. The black coat and silk hat are no longer insisted on even in the most conservative of city houses. But even then the number of people who can or do dress as the tropical heat requires i: comparatively small; and the result is much stifering aiid many cases of heat stroke.
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