The North-Carolinian., 1855-03-10
Row People Take Cold.

Not by tumblng into the river and drag
Cling home wet as a drowned rat; not by being
pitched into the mud, spilled out 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 scrubl,ing
the floor until the unnameable sticks to you
like wet rag; not by hoeing potatoes until
you are III lather of sweat; not by trying
| to head a pig in mid-wnter, and induce him to
run the other way, for he won't do any such
thing; not by steaming over the was-tub not
by essaying to teach Bidly to make mince pies
for Christmas, when you don't know how your
self, and theu worrying yourself into per-
splratloashecause the pies stuck to the pan, and
came out in muss, forgetting that pie-pans,
like people, are rather the better of little
greasing, alias soft soap; these not the
things which give people colds; and yet people
are all the time telling us how they ''caught
their death by exposure"
The time for taking co1d IS after taking ercr-
cisc; the place is IN your house ol2icc, or
counting room- 1t is not the act of exercise
which gives the cold; bat it is the getting cool
too quick after exercising. For example you
walk very fast, to get to the railroad station
or to the ferry; or to catch 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 de-
sired spot, you raise your hat and find yourself
in pcrspiration; You take seat, and feeling
quite comfortable as to temperature, you begin
to talk: with friend or, If New Yorker, to
read newspaper; and before you aware
OF 1t, you experience sensation of chilliness,
and the thing is done! You look around to
see where the cold comes, and find window
open near you, or door, that you have
taken seat at the forward part of the car,
aud it moving against the wind strong draft
is made through the creFlccs. Or may he you
met friend at Il street corner who wanted a
loan, and was quite complimentary, almost low
ing; you did not like to be rude in the delivery
of the two lettered monosyllabIe and while
you were contriving to be truthful, polite, and
safe. all at the same time, on comes the chilly
feeling, from a raw wind at the street corner,
or the slosh of mud and water in which, for the
hrst time you noticed yourself standing.
1oung ladies take their colds in grandly
dark parlors unused and unfired for week !;
warm enough were they, almost too warm in
the gay, sun-sLiny street without; and that
parlor felt comfortably cool at first, but the
last curl of the visited would not dangIe salts
factorily, and while compelling it, (young la
dies now days make it Il point of principle not
to be thwarted i'll anything, not even in we'd
ding rich Tom to please the old folks when
they love poor Dick and intend to please them
selves,) while conqnering that beautiful but
unruiy curl, the visitor makes an unexpected
meeting with chill which calls her to the grave
i
to arrest the attention of the careless, bnt will
reiterate the principle for the thoughtful and
observant: Get C0I Siolriy After any kind
of exercise, do not stand moment at street
corner, for anybody or anything, nor at an open
door or window. When you have been exer-
cising i'll any way whatever, winter or summer,
go home at once, or to some sheltered place; ;
and however warm the room may seem to be-
do not at once pull Off your hat and cloak but
wait awhile, some five minutes more, and
lay aside one at time, thus acting, cold is
impossible Notice moment; when you re-
turn from brisk walk and enter warm ROOM
raise your hat, and the forehead will be moist :;
let the hat remain few moments and feel the
forehead again and it will be dry, showing that
the room is actually cooler than your body
aud that with your outdoor clothing on, you
have cooled off full soon. Among the severest
colds have known men to take, were the re-
snlt of sitting down to a meal i'll a cool room
after walk or being engaged in writing
have let the fire go out, and their first admon-
ton OF it was that creeping chilllness which is
the ordinary forcrunncr of a severe cold Per-
sous have often lost their lives by writing or
reading in a room where there was no fire, al
though the weather outside was rather uncom-
Portable. Sleeping in rooms long unused, has
destroyed the life of many visitor and friend
Our splendid T~arlors our nice 'sparc rooms" :"
help to enrich many doctor The cool sepu-
chral parlors of New York, from May until
November, bring disease not only to visiters
but to the visited; for coming in from domestic
occupations, or from the hurry of dressing, the
heat of the body is higher than natural, aud
having cloak or hat on in going to meet
visitcr, and having in addition but little vital
ity, in consequence of the very scdentary ma
ture of town life, there is but very little capa-
bility of resistance, and chill and cold is the
result.
But ho,r to cure q Geld promptly; that is
question of life and death to multitudes: There
are two methods Of universal application: lst,
obtain bottle of cough MIXTURE or a lot of
cough candy any kind will do; in day or two
you will feel better, and in high spirits; you will
be charmed with the promptness Of the med-
cine; make mule of yourself by giving Your
certificate of the valuable remedy, and in due
course of time, another certificate will be made
for your admission foot foremost into "Grecn-
wood'
The other remedy is, consult a respectable
resident physician.-HoRs Journal Of HeaAh.
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SuDDEN DEATH.-A very sudden death oc-
Cured in this county on Monday last goth inst.
A Mr. Stephen Cavaneau, or Cavener residing
on or near the Canal went out in apparently
his usual health for the purpose of bringing
in turn of wood from the woods near by.
Upon his return his wife struck with the
change in his appearance anxiousiy enquired
what was the matter He replied that he
could not tell but that if she could do any thing
for him. it must be done quickly for that he