Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-23

Not by tumbling into the river and drag
Cling home wet as a drowned rat not by
being pitched into the mud, or spilled out
into the snow in sleighing time not by
walking for hours overshoc top in the mud
not by soaking in the rain without an UNI
brcla not by scrubbing the floor until the
unnameable sticks to you like wet rag
not by hoeing potatoes until you are in Il
lather of sweat not by trying to head Il pig
in mid-winter, and iAduce HIM to run the
other way, for he won't do any such thing
not by steaming over the wash tub; nor by
essaying to teach Bddy to make mince pies
for Christmas, when you don't know your
self, and then worry yourself into perspi.
ration because the pies stick to the pan, and
come out in Il mass, forgetting that the pie.
pans, like people, are rather better for grcas-
ing, alias sOit-suap; these are not the things
which give people colds and yet people are
all the time telling us how they " caught
their cold by exposure"
The time for taking cold is after your ex
ercse the place is in your own house, OF
Office, or contingencies.
1t is not the act of exercise which gives
the cold. but 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 the omnibus, or to
/
being ahead Of you, the body make. an over.
effort 10 keep up with it, and when you ge,
to the desired spot you raise your hat and
/ lind yourself In IA perspiraton you take a
seat and feeling quite comfortable AZ to tenn
/ perature, you begin to talk with friend, or
to read newspaper, and before you are
aware OF it, yOu experience "A sensation of
chilliness, and the MHg rs d0nc e; you look
round to see where the cold is from, and find
a window open Or door, or that you have
taken seat at the forward part Of the ear,
and moving against the wind, strong
draught IS made through the crevices Or
may be you meet a friend at a street corner,
who wanted loan, and was quite compli-
mentary, almost loving you did not like to
he too rude in the delivery of the two lettered
monosyllable, and while you were contriying
10 be truthful polite, and safe, all at the
same time on come, the chilly feeling from a
raw wind AZ the street corner, or the sosh Of
mud and water in which, for the first time,
you noticed yourself standing,
CIT COOL SLOWLY After any kind of excr-
else do not stand for moment at a street
corner for any body or anything nor at an
open door or window When YOU have beer
exercising in any way whatever, winter Oh
summer, 90 home at once, or to some shell
tered place, and however warm the room
may he, do not at once pull of your hat anc
cloak, but wait while, some five minutes OF
more, and lay aside one at time thus
acting, cold is impossible. Notice IA moment
when you return from brisk walk and ente
warm room, raise your hat, and the fore
head will be moist let the hat remain few
moments aud feel tue forehead again, and il
will be dry, showing that the room is actual
ly cooler than your body, and that with you
out ot-dOor clothing on, you have cooled of
full soon. Among the severest colds hav
known men to take, were the result Of sittin
down to meal in cool room, after walk
Or being engaged in writing, have let the fir
20 out, and their first admOnitiOn Of II, wa
that creeping chilliness which is the ordina
~ iurerunner of "a severe cold. Person
have lost their lives by writing or rcadin
in a room where there was no fire, althoug
the weather outside was rather comfortable
Sleeping in rooms long unused hos destroye
tic lite OF many a visitor and friend. Gu
spleldid parlors, and our nice spare rooms