Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-03-04

foot in the furrer, and fother on dry land and
not lop over; besides. it's very convenient when
[ NOES round side hill.
every good, indeed; how do your potatoes
come Oh tLis yearp
"Tney donxlepme on at all; digs 'em out,
and there's ahs tJerlasin' snarl Of 'em III each
hill
"But they arc small, perceive"
Yes, know it---you sec we planted some
whoppiu' blue noses over in that ere patch there,
AID they tourished so all.iredly, that these ERE
stopt CROWN jist out of spite; cause they know
cd they couldn't begin to keep up"
"You appear to be very smart, and | should
thiak you could afford better hat than the
one you wear"
"lhe looks amt nothin': it's all in the be-
havour-this ere hat WIS Sunday .go-to-meet-
in hat, and it's just as chock full OF piety as
dog is full of heas PveGot better one to
home, but don't dig tatersin it no how"
"You have been in these parts some tlme'
SHOULD guess"
IL guess SO tew. was born and got my
bro'tin up in that ERE house, but my native
place is down in Pordunk."
Then you said it was about three and
half miles to the next housep'
"Yes, sir, it was spell ago; and dou't be.
licve it's grown much shorter since"
"Much obliged. Good bye.
GOOD bye to ye-that's darn slick horse
of your'n."
Don't you do u.-When you are offered a
Al IS tnh
nothing about, but which you are to get at halt
price, :" being it's you,' don't you do it.
When a clique Of warm friends want you to
start paper to forward particular set OF
views, and promise you large quantity oil for.
tune, and tame, to be gained in the underta.
king, don't you do it.
When young lady catches you alone, lays
violent eyes upon you, expressing pop III
every glance, don't you do it.
When petulaut individual politely observes
tosyou--" You had better eat me up, hadn't
you 7" don't you do it.
When horse kicks you, and you feel a
strong disposition to kick the horse III return,
don't you do it.
When You are shining it very expeditiously
rou ID town, in search of somebody with some.
thing over who can assist you with loan, and
you are suddenly anticipated by somebody, who
wants to borrow from you, don't you do it
Should you happen to catch yourself whist
linz in printing office, and the compostors
TIL you to whistle louder, don't you do it.
If on an odd occasion your wife should ex-
claim to you-"Now, tumble over the cradle
and break your neck, do" don't you do it.
When you have any business to transact
with a .inancirl, aud he asks you to 60 aud
dine with him, don you do it,
LOOK TO Youn FEET..-Of all parts of the
body, there is not one the clothing of which
ougnt to be SO carefully attend to as the feet.
The most dependant part OF the system, this is
the part in which the circulation Of the blood
may he most readily checked, the part most ex-
posed to cold aud wet, or to direct contact
With good conducting surface, it is the part of
the system where, ,such check is likely to take
place. Goodness Of the feet is u very common
attendant on disordered state of the stomach;
AID yet disordered stomach is not more apt to
produce coldness of the feet, than coldness Of
the fectis apt to produce disorder Of the stom.
ach; and this remark doesn not apply only to ca.
SeS Oh lnuISeSloH, uul u many otueE uiSorueIS
to which man is lial le. Yet do we see the feet
of the young aud the delicate clad in thin.soled
shoes, and as thin stockings, no matter wheth-
er in summer or in winter time-no matter
whether the weather is dry or damp, or whether
tie temperature Of the atmosphere is warm or
cold. But this is not the whole OF the evil
These same feetare frequently at different times
of the same day, differently covered as to the
stoutness Of the shoes and their soles, and
often likewise as to the;hickness Of the stockings.
| have often found, on investigating into the
origin of the cases Of diseases, that it has been
a common practice. to go out of door in the
forenoon, the foot being protected with lambs
wool socks, and warm aud thickly soled boots
and to sit in the alternot at home, only hav.
ing the feut covered with silk stockings and
thin satin shoes. have SO often found this to
be the case that it would hardly surprise me
were the practice found to be almost universal
among the females Of the middle and upper
ranks Of society. TO this common, and suffi-
ciently inconsiderate practice, have traced
many cases ofincurable disease. TO this alone
may be ascrbed many a case of functional dis
turbances; this lays the foundation for many Of
those dcranpeinents by which the first inroad