The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-01-03
n O. 30.

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Sensible Hints About Personal Conlfoi
A thin shawl may be made warm by foldi
R newspaper inside oft. The paper is imps
] vious to the wind and cold air from outside,a
prevents the rapid escape of the warm air b
meath it. Every one knows that the heat
| the body is carried off much more rapidly in
high wind than in calm. The wind blot
away the heat evolved from the body; but in
| perfectly still air, this air remains, and cons
tutes az atmospheric envelope 30 nearly of 81
same temperature with the body itself, that Il
latter is not so quickly robbed of its natur
| heat.
There are some very interesting facts a5ol
| the body's power to make and retain hea
which are familiar to all when told, hut whic
are seldom thought of in daily experience
For example, the body will hold a great de
more heat than it gets from its furnaces. III
stomach is the furnace and our food 10 the fue
| 1t keeps up uniform temperature in the bloot
equal to about 98o of Fahrenheits thermome
ter. If the stomach could consume food fas
enough to maintain that heat, the body coui
not be frozen by any extreme of cold. But ii
proportion to the severity Of cold to which tn
body is exposed, is the rapidity with which
| loses. Some substances taken into the saom
| ach make hot blaze much sooner team others
is like putting pitch under steam boiler.
soon burns out, and the greater heat Injuries
| the furnace
We say that the body will hold more hea
than it gets from its own furnaces. Heat il
measured by degrees. On going out of warn
room, the body will Immediately begin 80 lose
its heat, and it must part with certain num-
Der of degrees before it can begin to feel cold i.
The direction has sometimes been given 9 Don't
hug the stove if you are going to set out on
long journey" But experience says, do hug
it. Get as many degrees of heat as you can
carry, if it is 500. Then wrap yourself up
well, and you economic these 500 degrees
through long ride. But ifyou had only taken
100 degrees at the start, they would have ex-
hausted midway OF the journey, and then you
would have begun to feel cold.
Nevertheless, it is an unhealthy hahit 70 se-
custom ones self on ordinary occasions to more
heat than is actually needed. This IL Q VsPy
common fault, and bears on the pocket 40 veil
as on the health. One may easily geI INFO the
habit of requiring two or three Rore blsuheAs
on bed than necessary. Some tamiliss gill
burn twice the fuel that others do, and oAioy
less comfort. The extremitiss Of the hody get
cold first, often to painful degree, wAilc The
trunk is warm. But so long As the tsank Keeps
warm, i'll a person Of common ,vigosOus bsslth,
there is little danger of catching cold" - ssh-
ing fingers or toes. In rail or car ri4ias 10 10
much safer to let the toes ache, thAR ~ eilow
the lungs to feed on the foul sir around shs
stove.
When you set out on a winter jou Tney IL Rou
are liable to suffer from cold toes, which many
do in spite of rubbers, fold piece Of lie saps-
per over your stockings, which you cen fes iily
do II your boots or shoes are noe ifrA tionahly
tight. This is better than rubbcrs, Nkich ere
in fact very cold comfOrters in extreme whiIe
they make the feet sweat in moderate weather
The main use of India rubber overshoes 10 to
keep out water, and for that they are second
only TO stout, water proof frst rats, calf skin
boot. There is not more villainouey ~ Ole
some article of wear made than the high topped
rubber boot. 1t makes the foot tender. eeps-
cially in children, gives an ugly gaii,and she's
lett oil IN any weather, the weRrer 10 liable to
catch cold. Saint Crispin is the best fisId of
the human foot when his leather and his sii.ches
are honest.
Although the body can take greater NUNS
Der OF degrees of heat than it gets from It's own
furnace, the stomach, yet its capacity 10 limited
in this respect. For example when Ihe head is
warm, you cannot hold it in the air Of q hot
oven for second; but when it il cold, emf es-
peciaily when damp also,you may hold it theEO
for some time without being obliged 10 1ish-
draw it. i appears that the body may ceIry
less, as well more heat, than the quantity
supplied by lite own iurnaes.--ItA eztTemstiss
and its surface often become painfully cold.
In winter, traveller occasionally 6sds in 0
hotel deficiency of bed covering; or in ths
sensitiveness OF disease, he may require more
than in health. The newspaper for which he
paid two cents on the cars, spread nader the
upper cover, viii be equal to an additional
blanket.
piece of silk oil cloth stitched in abe folds
OF a shawl is more flexible than the paper and
will last whole winter 1t has the advantage
of securing inward warmth without the I'd d.
tional weight of a thicker garment
The constitutional vivacity and temper of q
person has much to do with his endurance of
cold. For this vivacity is sort Of nervous
fire that lessons the sensibiiity to outward i'm
pressions. An Indifferent, milk and waite per-
son, without energy or force, is at the mercy of
every cold blast that sweeps around the corner
He, and especially she, has defense but to
wear dozen shawls during the day, and sleep
under bale of blankets all night. One with
ont any mental purpose unfortunately there
are such) though in vigorous health, j. much
more liable to catch cold than a spirited deli
cate body in some positive pursuit
In this world Of changeable climate there are
not a few people who get in a habit Of being
annoyed by any weather that is in the aliSht-
est degree adverse to their present caprice. In
winter, they don't like winter; in summer they
prefer autumn and in autumn, spring is the
most delightful season Of the year. A snow
storm in August would be charming, but in its
proper season il is perfect nuisance For
such people we axe utterly incapable of writing
any useful hints. We hope they will succeed
doing what they have set out to dc, until they
are punished into acquiescence with All the sea-
sons of the year-that is, in making themselves
uncomfortable, no matter what wind blows, or
what sun shines.