The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-02

/ aItcHLlOH HAS Ueeu paIu 10 LHeul VIII d view
of promoting this salutary excretion. In
stead of profting by this hint ofnature, man
kind have been imprudently and unaccount-
ably studious to stop that canal imagining
this to be the safest way to preserve the
feet dry and free from all disagreeable
smell. Dry feet will be allowed on all
hands to be preferable to moist; but the
means of promoting perspiration are also
the only means capable of keeping the feet
dry and free from any unpleasant fetor.
| Persons who have great tendency to
| persp;re in their feet, and who increase this
exudation by much walking or dancing,
will no doubt be sensible that cotton, thread
or silk stockings, instead of removing the
transpired matter, actually absorb it, retain
it IN contact with the skin, and check all
farther discharge.
That the feet are more exposed to the eff
fects ofcold, and to stagnations of the fluids,
than any other part of the body, is unques-
tionable; they are the most remote parts
from the heart, and the quickness of the
! circulation of the blood decreases in proper
ton to that distance; the blood circulating
upwards makes It's way to the heart some
what slower, On account of its own gravity.
/ by this slowness in the circulation, more
watery particles are deposited by the blood.
1t Is necessary, therefore, to keep the feet
somewhat warmer than the rest of the body,
| IN order to encourage the motion of the
| fluid. Woollen stockings are excellently
adapted for that purpose, and they ought to
| be chosen rather thicker than those aannels
used for shirts and drawers. For the same
reason it is necessary to prevent all mois-
III with hryr 6
shoes, with cork soles for the winter, or with
gum elastic over shoes.
The most disagreeableS sensation produc-
ed by the feet in perspiring, is between the
toes; this can only be prevented by wear
ing stockings made with toes, like the fin
| gers of gloves; because these alone can
absorb and prevent the viscid and fetid par
! ticles from settling there. But as this pro-
posal is not likely to be adopted, an easier
method of remedying the unpleasant effects
OF violent perspiration in the feet, may be
proposed powder of burnt alum will over
come this fetor, and at the same time will
not obstruet the necessary perspiration.
| Woollen gloves ought also to be worn in
preference to any other, especially by fe-
males, who wish to improve the skin of their
hands and arms; no cosmetics or washes
are SO certain, so powerful, and so salutary
in their effects; on the contrary, all exter-
nal applications, unless assisted by Internal
remedies, are attended with the positive
ruin of skin, bloom, and health
LORD BYRON. Lord Byron's face was
handsome eminently SO in some respects.
He had a mouth and chin fit for Apollo.
/ and L hrSfE Iosl
lightness and energy all over his aspect.
But his countenance did not improve with
age, and there were always some defects
IN it. The jaw was too big for the upper
part 1t had all the wilfulness of despot
in it. The animal predominated over the
intellectual part of its head, inasmuch as
the face altogether was large in proportion
to the skull. The eyes also were set too
near one another; and the nose, though
handsome in ITSELF had the appearance,
when you saw it closely in front, of being
grated on the face, rather than growing
properly out of it. His person was very
handsome, though terminating in lameness,
and tending to fat and effeminacy; which
makes me remember what hostile fair one
! objected to him, namely, that he had little
beard; fault which on the other hand.
was thought by another lady, not hostile to
add to the divinity of his aspect-IMpERBIs
Apollo. His lameness was only in one
toot-the left and it was so little visible to
casual notice, that as he lounged about a
room (which he did in such a manner as to
screen it, it was hardly perceivable. But
1t was real and even a sore lamehess.
Much walking upon it fevered and hurt it.
1t was shrunken foot, little twisted
This defect PROFESSIONALLY mortified him
exceedingly, and helped to put sarcasm and
misanthropy into his taste of life. Unfortu-
nately, the usual thoughtlessness of school
hoys made him feel it bitterly at Harrow
He would awake and find his leg in a tub
of water. The reader will see hereafter
how he felt it, whenever it was iibeled and
in Italy, the only time ever knew 1t men
toned, he did not like the subject and
fastened to change it. His handsome per-
son so far rendered the misfortune greater,
as it pictured 10 him all the occasions on
which he might have figured in the eyes of
company ;and doubtless this was gIeatrea-
son, why he had no better address. On the
other hand, instead Of losing him any real re-
gard or admiration, his lameness gave a
touching character to both.
I1e udu u ueIcdle WiIlte manu-, Vi WHICH
he was proud; and he attracted attention
to it by rings. He thought hand of this
description almost the only mark remaining
nowadays of a gentleman; of which ii
certainly is not, nor of lady either; though
a coarse one implies handiwork. He often
appeared holding handkerchief, upon
which his jewelled fingers lay embedded
as in picture. He was as fond of fine lin
en- as Quaker and had the remnant O
his hair oiled and trimmed with all the
anxiety ola Sarsanaplus. The visible char
acter to which this effeminacy gave rise
appears to have indicated itself as early al
his travels in the Levant, where the Crane
Signior is said to have taken him for 4 wo
man in disguise.