Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-03-16
HOW PEOPLE TAKE OLD.

liz" hOl III Ahhh WILL.
Not tumbling into the river and drag
Cling home wet as a drowned rat, not
by being pitched into the mud, pill
ed ont in the snow in sleighing time;
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 unnameable sticks
TO you like wet rag; not by hoeing
until you are in lather of sweat; not
by trying to head pig in mid-winter,
and inlucc him TO run the other way,
for he wont do any sEch thing; not by
stcaming over the wash-tub; by es-
saving to teach Biddy to make mnce
pies for Christmas. when you don't
know how yourself, and then worrying
yourself into pers, iration because
the pies stuck to the pan, and came
ont in a muss, forgetting that pie-pans,
like people, are rather the better for a
little greasing alias soft-soap;-thesc
are not the things which give people
colds-and yet people are all the time
telling us how they caught their death
by exposure
The TINE for taking cold is after
taking exercise;-the PLACE is in
your own house, or Office, or counting
room. 1t is not in the act Of exercise
which gives the cold, but it is the get
ting cool too quick after exercising
For example, you 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 be-
ing ahead ofyou, 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 yourselfin a
pcrspiration: You take Il seat, and feel
ing quite comfortable as to tempera-
tue, you begin to talk with friend
or, if a New Yorker, to read a newspa-
per, and before you are aware OF it, you
experience a sensation of chillincss,
AND TIE THING Is DONE; You look a.
round to see where the cold comes.
and find window open near you, Or q
door, or that you have taken scat at
the forward part of the car, anl it NOV
ING against the wind, u strong draft
ismade through the crevices. Ormay
be You meet u friend at a street corner
who wanted 4 loan, and was quite com
neutrality-suspicious. loving; you did
not like to be rude in the delivery o
the two-lettered monosyllable, an"
while YOU were contrivingt to be truth
full, polite and safe, all at the same
time, on comes the chilly feeling from
a raw wind at the street corner, or tE'
: slosh Of mud and water in which, fol
the first time, you notice yourself ;
standing.
Young ladies take their colds il
gradually dark parlors, unused AMI un
fired for aweek; warm enough wer,
, they, almost too warm, in the gay SUI
| shiny street without, and that parlo
felt comfortably cool at first, but tn
| last curl ofthe visited would not dan
t gle satisfactorily, and while COMPEL
S ingit (young ladies now a-days ma
e king it a point of principle not to b
/ thwarted in anything, not even in wed
e ding rich Tom to please the old folks
. when they love poor Dick, and inten'
q to please themsclvcs), while conquer
ing that beautiful but unruly cur, tn
: visitor makes an unexpected meetin;
: with q chill which calls her to the
: grave.
e | cannot give further space to illus
: trations to arrest the attention Of tn
i careless, but will reiterate the principl
: for the thoughtful and observant: GE
5 cooLsLowLY. After any kind ofexel
else, do not stand a moment at a stree
\ \ corner, for any body or any thing: nc
, at an open door OF window. Whe
: you have been exercising in any wa
i whatever, winter or summer, 60 hom
e at once, or to some sheltered place; an
It however warm the room may seem t
d be; do not at once pull off your hat an
d cloak, but wait awhile, some five mir
e utes or more, and lay aside one at
1t time; thus acting, cold is Impossible
e Notice a moment: when you retur
o from brisk walk and enter a war;
-. =, room, raise your hat, and the forehea
- will be moist; let the hat remain q fe'
~ moments and feel the forehead agail
e and it will be dry, showing that tn
T. room is actually cooler than your bod
f and that with your outdoor clothin
on, you have cooled off full soon. A
mong the several colds | have know
l. men to take, were the result Of sittin
lie down to a meal in a cool room, after
i walk; or being engaged in writing
t. have let the fire 60 out, and their tirs
admonition Of it was that creepin
chilliness which is the ordinary fore
le runner of a severe cold. Person
:, have often lost their lives by writin
? or reading in a room where there wa
N no fire, although the weather outsid
was rather uncomfortable. Sleepin
% in rooms long unused, has destroye
,r the life Of many visitor and friend.
: Our splendid parlors, ournice 'spal
ID rooms, help to enrich many a docto
De The cold sepulchral parlors Of Ne