The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-10-13
OCTOBER.

This is the last month of the season in
which we can expect to enjoy that nice
balance of agreeable warmth and bracing
cao!ness of autumn, which is so grateful to
our feelings alter the efiemnating influence
OF a scorchng summer. The invalids and
valetudinarans who dress as though they
think that clothes We're made for screens
rather than to keep their bodies warm, we
have nothing to say until they entirely lay
aside their cobweb habits of silk aud gauze,
and make use of something more substantial
to Shield themselves against the inclemency
of the approaching season. Besides the
scanty, light and ilimsy attire of fashionable
females of the present day, as greatly Ia
voring the class OF diseases from which they
mostly suffer, may be reckoned the warmth
and coscness Of the apartments which are
occupied by the opulent, together with the
great and sudden changes of temperature,
to the full elects Of which, from the light
ness Of their dress, they are imprudently
and neeGlessly exposed
In the winter, when persons leave sncn
apartments to so into the open air, the change
OF temperature which they experience, Of
ten amounts to twenty five or thirty degrees.
The passages to the lungs, in consequence
Of being exposed to such transition from hot
to cold, are likely 70 fall into torpor from
the stream Of cold air that must pass
through ther, for the purpose Of respiration;
and when they re- enter their apartments,
heated to the meridian temperature of the
torrid zone, the blood rnshes with violence
into the vessels previously rendered torpid
by the cold, and, upon the same principle
that one feels pain ia his hands on coming
to thr fire, after being exposed to the cold,
they feel sensation OF uneasness and heat
about the throat: this local inflammation
spreads, and they experience all the symp-
toms usually atte,,,iamt on recent catarrh.
1t is not our business to dictate the kind,
or fashion, Of the garments most suitable
to secure the Thousand avenues of weak con-
stituticn against the attacks Of disease but
yc strongly recommend to those who arc
in good health, if they would remain So,
aud to those who are feeble, if they would
not alter fer the worse, to adaft their cloth-
inc. more 10 The season Qnd their o7ya com
fort, and less to the folly of fashion, the
propagation of disease, and the ruin OF their
constitutions, than is generally customary
with the fashionable part of the community.
Except 7ca1m clothes, nothing is more con
ducive to bodily health, activity and cheer
fulncss of the mind, than regular and saa-
sonQbie exercise. Taken III a suitable de-
gree and at proper times, it increases the
power Of digestion, quickens and renders
clear the action Of the mind, and preserves
that lust balance between the mental and
physical powers which is necessary to health
strength and happiness. W hiie we thus en-
ioin upon all to cultivate habits OF tree and
regular exercise, we would caution those OF
fragile or impaired constitutions against
using it 50 as to occasion a great degree o.
heat or fatigue. TO do good, it must be reg
ular, daily, and perscseringly made use OF,
so as to keep up inscnslble perspiration.
1t is to the interruption Of this process,
rendered certain BY the nimsy wardrobe in
which Fashion requires those who are de-
voted to her service always to appear, that
we trace the origin of those fatal diseases
which are constantly making such cruel raw
aces among those who contribute most to
the life and ornament of social and domestic
intercourse. How long will the votaries OF
this Notwithstanding system remain pas
siye under the absurd and arbitrary laws OF
fashion? Must the delicate fabric OF the te-
male constitution be cternally sacflhced up"
on this altar of folly and tyrant cnstomf
Both humanity and affection declare with
sorrow that the names are already too nu-
mercus Of those who have fallen .ictlms to
the deadly influence of that insidious class
of diseases, which preys with the most un-
sparing voracity upon the ta1resf and dear
est part of natures work.
T1ieQical Lnieiigcnce1'.
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NANTFD.--a black woman, to do the