The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-18

giNen HlEl uIer LduicS anu S6HtlSLueu, Sel
Il, Mr.. Fields has always been 'ficted with
that distressin evil of walkin' in his sleep. Ant
this ar no doubt the cause of this unpleasant
accident
"'That so!' said Billy, as he slipped out tc
put on his clothes
al know'd Mr. Fields would not have done
SO on purpose, said one little gal.
"'I know'd d the Fields family long ago. said
one old oman, and | know'd thar blood woulc
mot be guilty of such thing
"'He's had better raisin', said an old bow.
legged brother.
Chilly had now put on his clothes, and he
and 'pologizn' to the gals for his adventures
las he called snombobolastic. 1t war now all
right, and all of my own 6xin'. Billy forgive
me for tlrowin' him over-for gittin' him out
$50 putty Durn him, l wish could git him in
another sich scrape! I'd git him out when the
cows come home tail END foremost! aint for.
got his blabbin' out bout that Betsy Trollop
scrape yit!'
TIE VIRTUES OF IcE.-Yery recently an en-
tirely new doctrine has been broached, and one
of much importance. An anonymous writer
in the last number of the Democratic Age con
tends that cold water is good enough in its way
but that the effects of ice water upon the debili-
tated system are peculiar, and not only peculiar
but miraculous.
Better still than ice water is the ice itself,
melted upon the naked person when the system
is strong enough to bear it, He goes so far as
to say ''that ice well used would prove not ex-
actly the physical regeneration or restoration
of the world, yet it would come very near it. -
The writer is, beyond question, man OF
ability, literary man, but no mere scribber,
a man of the world, a mighty hunter and fish
erman, a practical man who bases his concu-
sion not upon closet speculatlons, but upon his
own personal. long continued experience. At
tackled with pneumonia, salIvated broken down
in constitution, subject to hemorrhages from the
lungs, digestion totally deranged, rheumatic
and neuralgic, he tried in vain the remedies
prescribed by American physicians, the effects
of foreign travel, the most rigid diet and the
most careful and systematic habits OF life
'rhe most learned physicians of London, Paris,
Genoa, Milan, Florence, Pisa and Rome could
do him no good. His first step towards resto,
ration began with the use of the sponge bath
of cold water Immediately after getting out of
bed. After trying this for some time with on
Iy moderate degree Of benefit, he became con
vinced by close chemical analysis OF ice that
il contained within itself power Of imparting
physical vitality possessed by nothing else. Be
ginning with lump of ice the size of a wal
Iut in a bowl of water, he increased the guam
uty until at length he melted FIVE or six pounds
of ice upon his body every morning.
This little lump Office had new effect, some
thing that cold water never produced, and the
ultimate result was indeed marvellous. He
not only gained IS pounds of flesh, was restored
10 perfect health and to a state Of vigorous en-
ergy, physical strength, vital power, unwasting
glow of feeling and an ability to endure any
amount of fatigue and exposure with apparent
impunity. His description of bis present con
dition is ravishing. Unbroken sleep, perfect
control of his nervous system, mind always Sc
rene and cheerful, muscles firm and hard, nc
consciousness of the existence of his internal or
gans, ability to do with half the @'eeP he for
|merty required, appetite always good, dIges-
ion perfect, no taste whatever for unhealthy
tood, in short. supernatural state OF mind and
body in which 'eyery moment of his waking
existence seems to be consciousness of physical
intellectual, moral and social happiness" And
all this is due. under Providence, not to cold
water, bat to ice mainly and chiefly.
OF course, the writer has his theory about
the chemical nature of ice, theory which We
are frank to say we do not understand. He
talks about the ice containing "electric heat, "
laughs at the chemists who will laugh at him,
and discusses the Aurora Borealis as dependent
Il, IL. in
ding from the vast ice fields of the Arctic zone.
With all this we have nothing to do; it may be
or may not be so. The important fact is that
there seems TO be some extraordinary curative
property in ice when applied to the human skin,
illustrated not only in the writer's case, but IN
the case of many friends to whom he gave the
advice, "try the ice."
Especially is the case adapted to nervous
pale, lean, salow. dyspeptic, tobacco using. ex-
cess tndulging authors, writers, teachers and
intellectual! men of all qualities. 70 these the
writer promises that the use of ice, first melted
in water, and then applied in the solid cake to
the person, will bring unwonted power of mind
and body, constant cheerfulness, power OF
moral control, "a blessed clearness Of thought,
absence of all nervousness in fine, an ability
to walk farther stand up longer, work harder
and do everything better than they could do II
before" EXISTENCE will grow brighter, and the
flame Of life will burn with more camness, Sc
curity, glow and splendor, than you ever
dreamed Of"
This may be all enthusiasm the writer's case
may be exceptional. the ice cure may not suit
every body, but the experiment may be made
without injury. Try the ice
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WILLs-We are told that the Legislative
council of Canada have taken firm stand
against death bed bequests, enacting that nc
beouest will be valid if made within six months
of The testator's death. There is much com.
mon sense in this enactment. A very great pro
portion of all widows and orphans have the first
Shock Of bereavement sadly embittered, and
are often embarrassed for months and years, not
to say impoverished, because the deceased did
not make will, or neglected making it till on
his death bed, when. with impaired mind, and
probably under undue influences, he was in
duced to commit great wrongs and act as he
would never have done when master of himself
Keep your affairs straight and yourwill made,
If YOU own only trife. The habit of doing
$50, of being methodicaI, is valuable of itself
Many old fogies and weak minded creatures
are afraid to make will, through superstltous
fear Of dying soon! We have heard Of such in
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