Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-01-04

From I" The Century,"

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impervious to the wind and cold air from
outside, and prevents the rapid escape of the
warm air beneath it. Every one knows that
the heat of the body is carried off much more
rapidly in high wind than in calm. The
wind blows away the heat evolved from the
body; but in perfectly still air this heat
remains, and continues an atmospheric en-
veope so nearly Of the same temperature
with the body itself, that the latter is not so
quickly robbed of its natural heat.
There are some very interesting facts about
the body's power to make and contain heat,
which are familiar to all, when told, but
but are seldom thought Of in daily experience.
For example. the body will hold great deal
more heat than it gets from its own furnaces,
and our food is the fuel. 1t keeps up uni
form temperature in the blood equal to about
9S deg. of Fahrenhiets thermometer. If the
stomach could consume food fast enough to
maintain that heat the body could not be fro
zen by any extreme of cold. But in proper
ton to the severity of cold to which the body
is exposed, is the rapidity with which it loses.
Some substances taken into the stomach make
a hot blaze much sooner than others, as
brandy TO put brandy in the stomach is
like putting pitch under steam boiler. 1t
soon burns out, and the greater heat Injuries
the furnace:
We say that the body will hold more heat
than it gets from its own furnaces. Heat is
measured by degrees. On going out of a
warm room, the body will Immediately begin
to lose it's heat, and it must part with a GER
tain number of degrees before it can begin to
feel cold The direction has sometimes been
given" Don't hug the stove, if you are 60
ing to set out on cold journey" But eX-
pcrience says-do hug it. Get in as many
degrees of heat as you can carry, if it is 800.
Then wrap yourself up well, and you can
economise these 500 degrees through long
ride. But if you had only taken 100 degrees
at the start, they would have been exhausted
midway of the Journey, and then you would
have begun to feel cold. Nevertheless, it is
an unhealthy habit to accustom ones self on
ordinary occasions to more heat than is ac-
tually needed. This is very common fault,
and bears on the pocket as well as on the
health. One may easily get the habit of re-
quiring two or three more blankets on bed
than are necessary. Some families will burn
twice the fuel that others do, and enjoy less
comfort
The cxtremities of the body get cold first,
often to painful degree, while the trunk is
warm. But so long as the trunk keeps warm,
in person of common vigorous health, there
is little fear of catching cold by aching
toes or fingers. In rail car riding, it is much
safer to let the toes ACHE than to allow the
lungs to feed on the foul air around the stove.
| When you set out on winter journey, if
you arc liable to suffer from cold toes, which
many do in spite of rubbers," fold piece
of newspaper over your stocking, which you
can readily do, if your boots or shoes are not
irrationaliy tight. This is better than Grub
bers," which are in fact, very cold comfort
crs in extreme, while they make the feet
sweat in moderate weather The main use
of India rubber overshoes is to keep out
water, and for that they arc second only to a
stout, waterproof frst-rate calfskin boot
There is nota more villainously unwhoesome
article of wear made than the high topped
rubber boot 1t makes the foot tender, es-
pecially in children, giving an ugly gait, and
when left off in any weather. the wcarer is
liable to "catch cold" Saint Crispen is the
best friend of the human foot, when his leath-
er and stitches are honest
Although the body can take in a greater
number Of degrees of heat than it gets from
its own furnace, the stomach, yet its capacity
| is limited in this respect. For example, when
the hand is warm, you cannot hold it in the
air Of a hot oven for second; but when il
is cold, and especially when damp also, you
may hold it there for some time without be-
ing obliged to withdraw it. And so of the
whole body. 1t appears that the body may
carry less, as well as more heat, thai he
quantity supplied by it's own furnace. Its
extremites and its surface often becomaG&in.
fully cold.
In winter, traveller occasionally fins in
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the scnsitvcness of disease, he may require
more than in health. The newspaper fol
which he paid two cents on the cars, spread
under the upper cover, will be equal to an
additional blanket
A piece of silk oil cloth, stitched in the
folds Of shawl, is more flexible than the
paper, and will last whole winter. 1t has
the advantage of securing inward warmtf
without the additional weight of thicker
garment.
This constitutional vivacity and temper Of
a person has much to do with his endurance
of cold For this vivacity is a sort of ner
vous fire that lessons the sensibility to out
ward impressions. An Indifferent, milk and
water person, without energy and force, is al
the mercy Of every cold blast that sweeps
round the corner. He, and especially ste
mas 10 uctCIlcC Dtlt W wear ~ dOLSu SIlitN II
during the day, and sleep under a bale o.
blankets at night One without any menta
purpose, unfortunately there are such,,
though in vigorous health, is much more LA
BILE TO catch cold than spirited delicate body
bent on some positive pursuit.
In this world Of changeablc climate, there
are not few people who get a habit of being
annoyed by any weather that is in the slight
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 it is perfect nui
sance. For such people we are utterly in
capable of writing any useful hints. W.
hope they will succeed in doing what they
have set out to do, until they are punished
into acquiescence with all the seasons Of th'
year-that is, in making themselves uncom
Portable, no matter what wind blows, or wha
sun shines.
In youth we seem climbing up hill or
whose top eternal sunshine appears to rest
How eagerly we pant to gain its summit
But when we have gained it how difieren
the prospect on the other side! We sigh AZ
we contemplate the waste before us and lool
back with a wishful eye upon the flowcry
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