Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-04-26
HOW PEOPLE GET COLD.

Not by tumbling into the river and draggg-
ling home Wet as drowned rat not by being
pitched into the mud, Or piled out in the snow
in slei2hine time; not by being soaked in the
rain not by walking for hours over shoe top in
mud; not by soaking in the rain without an
umbrella; not by scrubbing the floor until the
unnamcabl. sticks TO you like a Wet rag; not
BY hoeine potatoes until you are in lather Of
sweat; not by trying TO head pig in mid win
ter. and iniure him to run the other way, for
he won't do any such thing; not by steaming
over the wash tub {; not by cssaying TO teach
Bid'iy how 10 MAKE rnncc pics for Christmas,
when You don't know yourself in 4 perspiratiou
because the pies stuck to the pan and came ont
in mass, forgetting that pie-pans, like people,
arc rather better for grra>ine alias soft soap !;
these are not the things which give people
colds and yet people are all the time telling
u> how they ,.ca,l=ht their death by expos
urc.'
TX" TINE .t3r t"AItg roi}, is AFTER yo"rcr-
'rr;"~ Hc rLAcE is iiAyonr 5w~ house, Or ct-
.6c', or coU"ting hons".A
II IS hot the act Of exerc!se which gives the
cold, but it is the getting \cold too quick after
exercising. For example Sou walk very fast
to get to the railroad station, or to the ferry,
or to catch an omnibus, or to make time for an
appointment; your mind bei ing ahead of you,
the body makes an over effort to keep up with
it, and when You get to the \dcsired spot you
raise your hat and find yourself in a perspira-
ton YOU take a seat and feeling quite COM
Portable as to temperature, YOU begin to talk
with n friend, or if a New Yorker to read
newspaper, and before you are aware of it.
yru experience sensation OF chilline$s, ard
the hiny iS1on", you look around to see where
the cold comes from, and find window open
near you, or door, or that you have taken
Seat at the forward part of the car, and moving
against the wind, strong draft is made through
the creyiccS. Or may be You met friend at
street corner, who wanted 4 loan, and was quite
complimentary, almost loving; you did not
like to be rude in the delivery of two monosyl-
!.blc:. and while you were contriving to be
truthful, polite and safe, all at the SAME time,
on comes the chilly feeling from raw wind
at the street corner, or the slosh Of mud and
waterin which, for the first time, you noticed
yourself s;anling
Young ladies take their colds in grandly
warm enough were tncIF, almost f4o %arftlfu n
'h: gay street wiiaout, and tha, .parlor felt
comfortably cool ;.t first. but the ia-S
,+s- .:.:..r - uangc satisfactorily, and
while compelling it, young ladies now day,
make it :; point Of principle not to be thwartct
in anything, not even in wedding rich Tom tc
please the old folks. when they love poor Dick
AID intend to please thcmselves,) while con
iucrinc that beautiful but unruly curl. the visi
tor makes an unexpected meeting with chill
which calls her to the grave.
cannot give further space to illustration,
TO arrest the attention of the careless, but vii
rcterate tie principle for the thoughtful and
obScrvaHt -
GIT Cook SLowLY.-Afterany kind of ex.
crci$e, do not stand u moment at street cor,
ner for any body or any thing-nor at an open
door cr window. When You have been exer,
ci>in. in ANY way whatever, winter or summer,
go home at once, nr to some sheltered place,
and however warnI the room may seem to be,
Do not pull of your hat and cloak, but wait
awhile. sgmc five minutes or more, and lay
aside unr At L time; thus acting, Il cold is I'M
pos>ib!.