Litchfield enquirer., 1842-02-03

WIpE AwAKE.-Jack Frost has again put in motion his electrical machine. The Hlo- mcnt yoHr nose is outside the door, you per- ceive the shock. Creep about like stiffened flies, and of a surety he will numb you-and you will shiver through the ten or twelve weeks of cold weather, like poor irrational beings who don't know how to keep them- selves warm. But that is not the method for reasoning beings. Wide awake! is the motto.
 It is very easy to be uncomforta ble all winter-a vast deal more easy than pleasant. It is not very wise, however, for creatures who claim to be rational. It is libel on humanity to acknowledge inability to set cold snap at defiance. So step quick, la dies! Don't mew yourselves up over coal fires as if you had vegetable faces which would wilt at the first kiss of the winter king. Don't mutter and shiver, and let your teeth chatter. Don't shut yourself up, as if YOU had taken vow of seclusion-but seek the open air and keep yourself warm III It.. Nothing is easier. It is only to resolve-it is easier than plunging into cold bath, be- cause that won't get warm While you are Tn if, but the weather will.
 Just fancy our hardy woodmen now. The weather is not yet cold enough for them to enjoy themselves. They are waiting for winter to come in earnest; and when 1t does, in earnest will they improve it. The forests, which enjoy an impunity, while the earth may be cultivated, warm the back woodsmen without fire in the winter. Miles and miles of clearing will be ready for the next Spring to shine upon, which, when the last Spring opened, were in the same dense shade in which they had stood, for period anterior to which the oldest inhabitant has no record. How would it fare with the log cabinmen if they feared a little frost!
 Walk. Take walks-and walk quick. The very dogs trot faster as the weather warns them-and human beings are the on- lv ones who would like to move in winter as they did in summer, when they feared to overheat themselves. The glow ofexercise is much more healthy-pleasant-- than the sleepy gas of coal. It is the best cosmetic, the best relish for food, the best provocative of thought, the best earnest of long life. It ensures victory over accident al circumstances, and injures the sale of Cough Lozenges, Liquorce, Rhubarb, and Horehound Candy. Indeed, it is the only sure and effectual substitute for those pre- parations. The wheeZing, coughing lnva- lid, never gets his infrmity by too much ex- posture, but by too litt.e. By making an at mosphere of seventy or eighty in the house, and never go out of it except when com- pelled-by purposely enervating the system and then exposing it to short and severe at tacks-it is thus that coughs, colds and con- sumptions are warranted. Who ever knew a polar bear with whooping cough?
 If we look at the old iron men, who at eighty are as good as new, we do not find them afraid of cold weather John Quincy Adams could thread a needle in the open air, in December, before breakfast. What lady in Gotham could do such feat! His nerves are braced, his frame firm, his facul- ties entire, his health unimpaired, his ener- gies unshaken, and his resolution as steady as when he reioiced in youth, forty years ago. Yet he has enjoyed no special dispen- sation to preserve to him this high health. He might have coddled himself to death as effectually as any delicate or interesting young woman in the world. He might have been superanuated years ago; and instead of astonishing country by his sudden starts in the House of Representatives, he might now be nursing his "second childhood, and mere oblivion," at home in Massachusetts.
 Women are accused by heatless sticks of bachelors of "gadding." Faith, we like to see it. Let them gadeif they will only gad now, and for the two months coming. There is nothing in the sentence of Eve, that we ever heard of that condemns the women to stay in the house all the days of their lives. We like to ace the streets lively with them. Broadway were no better than COW path, but for its promenaders. Shall winter drive them out? Forbid it, thick-soled shoes Forbid it, muffs and boas! Dress for the season, and turn out, ladies! Don't stay in the house all day, to be taken out at night to heated rooms-uAere enervated by warm bath of breathed air-thence to be plunged into the cold again, to come home shivering to bed with a headache. Such were more than Russian could bear. Accustom your selves to exposure during the day. Habit uate yourselves to exercise in the open air. Educate your children in the same true school of health-and when you have made these practices fashionable, American wo- men will cease to be remarked as the bcau- tiiul but delicate beings they are at present.
 ~, Y. 7aUler,
 VIRGINIA FARMING.
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