The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-07-10
Colds.

,-aOW 90 you. no r ~ffetty: well, tldnk
you, only I;haye got a dreadful coIdi"r' : :
We have heard that question and answer. 50
frequently Of late, that we begin5to suspect it
is the pass word to Some new order. Every
body has cold now.a.days;, for ourselves, we
have one thatwoud do creditt to native aMexi-
can dropped suddenly Into GresnIad, and
q bit of sympathy, does one get in bis safaiction.
govt, Or an ague, every, man you meet is ready
TO give you forty remedies, every one ofswhich
he can declare from~his personal, knowledge to
be intallible: but cold |! oyery body has them,
and the only response you get is, All, indeed;
colds are very prevalent now a-days.' =
The subject is one Of such universal interest
that the following passages from the Journal
of Health cannot fail to prove interesting:- =
- HOW, DO PEOPLE TAKE COLD.
Not by tumbling into the river and dragging
home wet as drowned rat; not by,::being
pitched into the mud, or spilled out in the:snow
in seighing time; not by walking for hours
over the shoe top in mud; not by soaking in
the rain without OH umbrella mot by scrubbing
the floor until the unnsmeable sticks to you
like wet rag not by hoeing potatoes until
you are in lather of sweat; not by trying to
head a pig in mid.winler, and induce him to
run the other way, for he won't de any such
thing; not by steaming over the wash'tub; !;
not by essaying to teach Biddy to make mince
pies for Christmas, when you don'tknow your.
self, and then worrying yourself into perspi
ration because the pies stuck to the pan, and
came out in muss forgetting that .pie-pans,
like people, are rather the better for little
greasing, alias soft soap; these are not the
things which give people colds; and yet peo-
pie are all the time telling US how they 'caught
their death by exposure" T.
The time for taking cold is after taking ex-
ercise; the place is in your own house, or Office,
or counting room. 1t is the getting cool too
quick after exercising. For example you walk
very fast, toget to the railroad station ) or to
the ferry; or to catch an omnibus or to make
time for an appointment; your mind being
ahead Of you, the body makes an extra effort
to keep up with it; and when you get to the
desired spot, you raise your hat and find your
self in q perspiration; you take seat, and
feeling quite comfortable as to temperature, you
begin to talk with-a friend or, if New York
er, to read newspaper; and before you are
aware of it, you experience sensation Of chill
illness, and the thing is done! You look around
to see where the cold comes, and find win
dow open near you, or door, or that you have
taken seat at the forward part Of the car, and
it moving against the wind, a strong draft is
made through the crevices.
Young ladies take their colds in grandly dark
parlors unused and unfred for week; warm
enough were they, almost too warm in the gay,
sun-shiny street without; and that parlor felt
comfortably cool at first but the last curl of
the visited would not dangle satisfactorily, and
while compelling il, (young ladies nowadays
make it point of principle not to be thwarted
in anything, not even in wedding rich Tom to
please the old folks, when they love poor Dick
and intend to please themselves,) while con.
quering that beautiful but unruly curl, the vis-
tor makes an unexpected meeting with chill,
which calls her to the-grave.
cannot give further space to illustrations 10
arrest the attention of the careless, but will
reiterate the principle for the thoughtful and OBJ
servant: get cool slowly.