The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-02-07
Che ])I)psieialt.
From Hall 5 journal of HEALTH
Farmer Health.
DRESS.

warmth about the body and thus pre-
vent those sudden and fatal changes
from heat to cold, which occur in pass
ing from an indoor temperature of sixty
five degrees to that of Zero or lower,
without as a mid-winter. The tempera-
ture of the Northern States varies over
a hundred degrees during the year,
sometimes nearly half that within twenty
four hours. Dress provides against
these destructive sudden changes, by
maintaining the warm h of the skin at
lis natural safe, which is ninety-cight
degrees, whether man is on an iceberg
in Greenland, or on a sand-island in a
tropical sea. The ma criais of clothing
which best keep the heat about the body
are called uon-conductors, such as furs
and woolens, while the conductors are
such as cool the body, by conveying the
natural heat from it with great rapidly;
the greater conducting ability is meas
urcd hy the greater GOODNESS which an
article causes on the frs, instan, of its
application. In the very coolest wealth
or, fur aud wooden flannel appear but a
Ii tie cool, and tina but for an instant,
and he next, there is sensation OF
increasing, comtor able warmth cotton
flannel feels colder than WOODEN: silk
colder han cotton: Irish linen colder
than silk, and damp Irish linen greatly
colder than either. a damp WOODEN
shirt feels but Il Ii tie cold, and begins
to get warm and dry in an instant even
1t the person is in Il proIusc pcrspira-
ton; while an Irish linen or silk shirt,
if damp with pcrspiration or otherwise,
feels cold and cl4mmy and Scpulchral on
the instant Of its ,ounching the skin, and
will rculain so for hours. withou. get ing
dry, never failing to leave cold III some
troublesome or even dangerous form
hence, as persons perspirc easily and
protuscly IN Summer, Irish Inca can
not be worn in warm wca her with i'm.
punity by the working classes, and
those liable to parspira ion from a little
walking or exercise. Thus it is that
British sailors in the navy arc compelled
to wear woolen flannel shirts all the
year and in all attitudes in the North,
because it keeps the natural warmth
from escaping from the body, thus nam
tulumg Il temperature Of ninety-cight
degrees about the skin; and in hot
climates in Summer, because although
WOODEN is Il bad conductor of heat, it is
good conduc or OF wa er, for If
WOODEN blanket is thrown over sweat
ing horse, in very short time his hair
and the inner side of the blanket will be
dry, while he microscope will discover
the whole outside surface spangcd with
millions of tiny drops of water. For
these reasons, WOODEN flannel should be
worn next tho skin by all our people.
from one years end to anothcr-a gauze
material in Summer in Winter, "A more
substantial arlclc. Whie tianucl fuls
up, and becomes bard and stiff, unless
abou. fifth of it is cotton. Colorod
flannel, especially the rcd, always re-
mains soft and pliable' These things
are indisputably ,rue, and practical
attention to them, on the part Of all
hard-working people, would prevent an
amount of pain and sickness every year
which figures can not express. This
would be especially true, if in warm
weather, when flies ARE not needed in
the house, farmers and other laborers
would wear Il moderately stout article
Of red wooden flannel as a shirt, with
nothing over i, while at work, but at
other times Il Thin coat over that. ANY
flannel garment worn during the day
should be hung up to air at night, while
the night-gown all the year round should
be of stout couon shirting for if WOODEN
is worn next the skin all he time, it
makes it callous, aud is otherwise iniu-
rous. The best, safest, aud mos
hoalthtul hcal-dress for farmers and
work men, all the year round, is COIN
mon easy-ht'ing wool Or felt hat; in
Wan er it keeps the head warm, in
Summer it is great protection against
Snn-strokc, especially if silk handker
chief or IL few leaves Of Tree are worn
in he crown; such hat is great pre-
ventive of badness, if worn from early
youth, because it allows the blood to
flow freely to and from the scalp but if
WV 'S"'N4' CIV SOih ~ NSoElI, dS 10 tOHc
By he common unyiclding silk ha;, the
free circulation of he blood is obstruct-
ed. and he nourislnent of the halr-roots
or bulbs being cut off, he hair perishcs
irretricvably, causing all the discomforts
and Inconvenience OF badness.
Death often comes to the honest
laborcr, as we'll as to others, through
the feet, either by lightly fttng shoes,
which, by obs ruc:iug the circulation,
keep the feet cold, thus laying, the
foundation for troublesome diseases, or
by shoes which do not keep out the
dampness. in purchasing new shoes or
having the measure taken, put on two
pairs of WOODEN socks, without the
knowledge of Crispin, and the new pair
will feel from the first "as easy as an
old shoe"
A piece of tarred or pitched cloth
scwcd between the layers of the shoe
sole is great protection against damp
ness from without or take pitch not
hot enough to burn the lea her, and
apply it to the DO tom and edges of the
sole with a rag, let it dry thoroughly,
and repeat the application thus three or
four times it is contended that sole
thus trea ed will no. only be impervous
to water and dainpness, but will wear
nearly twice as long as sole not thus
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