Grass Valley telegraph., 1857-02-21
NO. 20.
How People Take Cold.

The time for taking cold is after your ex-
ercise tie place is in your own house, or of
fee, or countingroom. 1t is not the act of
exercise which gives you the cold, but it is
the getting cool too quick after the exercis-
ing. For example, you walk very fast to
get to the railroad station, or to the ferry,
or to catch an omnibus or to make an ap-
pointment your mind being ahead of you,
the body makes an cver-effort to keep up
with it and when you get to the desired
| spot, you raise your hat and find yourself in
appropriation. You take seat and feeling
| quite comfortable as to temperature, you be-
gin to talk with friend or to read news
paper and before you are aware of it, you
expersenceza sensation of chilliness, and the
! thing issd0ne Youslook around to see where
the cold comes from, and find window open
near yOu Or door, or that you have taken
a seat at the forward part of the car, and as
it is moving against the wind strong
draught is made through the crevices. Or,
it may be, you meet friend at a street cor
ner, who wanted loan, and was quite COM
plimentary, almost loving F; you did not like
to be rude in the delivery of two-lettered
monosyllable, 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 sluSh
of mud and water in which, for the first time,
you noticed yourself standing. 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 exercising in any way whatever, winter
or summer, go home at once, or to some shell
! tered place; and however warm the room
may seem to be, do not at once pull off your
hat and cloak, but wait some five minutes or
more. and lay aside one at time thus act
ing cold is impossible. Notice moment
when you return from brisk walk, and en-
ter 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 roomis
actually cooler than your body, and that,
with your outdoor clothing on, you have
cooled off full soon. Among the severest
colds known, are those resulting. from sitting
down to meal in cool room after walk
or being engaged in writing, and having let
the fire go out, the first admonition of il is
that creeping ehilliness, whichis the ordinary
forerunner of a severe cold. Persons have
often lost their lives bv writing or remaining
in room where there was no fire, although
the weather outside was rather uncomforta-
BILE. Sleeping in ooms long unused has des-
trOyed the life of many visitor and friend
our splendid parlors and our nice "spare
rooms" help to enrich many doctor. Cold
sepulchral parlors bring diseases, not only to
visitors 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, and having no cloak or hat on
in going to meet visitor, and having in ad-
dition but little vitality in consequence of
the very sedentary nature of town life, there
is very little capability of resistance, and
chill and cold is the result. But how to cure
a cold promptly, that is question of life and
death to multitudes There are two meth
DDS Of universal application: first, obtain
bottle of cough mixture. or 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
medicine; make a mule of yourself by CIV
ing a certificate of the valuable remedy and
in due course Of time, you may depend upon
another certificate being made for your ad-
mission, feet foremost, into the graveyard.
The other remedy is-consult respectable
physician!