Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-04-30
Catching Cold.

room il clos. an Ill vent lated; up GOES
u window, in comes draft, and we catch
cold. We are told that We should not al
low such draft through our apartment;
down goes the window and we are stltcd.
Dame Nature. like kind parent, applies
the rattan to refractory children. lie who
sets his foot in a trap must not complain
if the trap spring and catch his foot. Put
q bird into room where there is a closed !
window, and it will ny a hundred times
against the glass, unable to learn that it
can not 20 through where it can see
through. Just SO it is with human beings
about taking cold. They will catch cold
a hundred times. and then go for the one
hundred and'fi time aud do the same
thing They can not learn to await dan
ger if they do no: see i, stare them blunt
" in the face. Human leines will, Of
course. reason but reasoning is habit,
aud they never form the habit of using
reason to prevent colds. 1t is the simp
lest thing in the world just as simple as
taking drink of water 1t is simply the
art of preserving Preserve an eren tenn
perature. He who does this will never
suffer from colds. The artists, or profess
sors, who endeavor to preserve fruits in
there natural state, strike first for the tenn
perafure at which the can not sour, then
for cvenness at that point. The same
must be done to preserve health. Find
the normal condition. that Of pleasantness
and comfort; then preserve an equablc
temperature. and there will be no danger.
1t will be said that it can not be done. 1t
is granted; but still, theoretically. the two
points mentioned must first of all be fixed {:
first, what proper condition OF the system
is; and second, resolve TO maintain it OF
course, there will be variation. There
must be exercise, and sometimes violent
exercise. There will be excitement; pas
sion more or less vehement. All persons
will be violent at times. The thing wanted
is to accept the fact and act accordingly.
Keep as near the normal condition as pos
sible; but when necessity compes ris-
ing above or falling below the proper point,
use discretion to recover. Freeze an ap-
pie, and thaw it out gradually at low
temperature, and it can not be detected as
having been frozen; which, if it be thawed
rapidly at high temperature, become:
q pulpy mass, because the sudden
change breaks down the structural cells
Freeze your ear, on cold day; pack it in
snow till it thaws, and it will he nearly a.
we'll as the other. No one could tell il
had been frozen. But thaw it quickly il
warm room, and the twinges Of pain viii
be most exquisite, while in the end it viii
appear as if it had been boiled. The trutl
is, there will be extremes Somebody viii
get behind and have to run fer the train
or, in fit Of anxiety, hasten for an omui
bus, street car, or a ferry-boat, wher
another goes in three or five minutes, max
ing haste useless. People will get caugh,
in .rain-storms, and be soaked with pur,
water distilled by natures evaporator;
some worshipping Charles will get upset il
the snow with their beloved Maggies
some snow-white ducks will sport in the
briny surf until nature warns with chill
to desist; from one and all of thes,
scources. and from many others, colds viii
come That is fact; it will take place
Everybody's children are Maynard some
times, and Dame Natures with the rest
and, thanks be to heaven, the old lad,
knows just when and where to apply the
rattan. 1t is all no use to counsel people
to beware, to be careful, to avoid danger
Mothers and doctors have done this yer,
thing for FIVE thousand years, and the bus
mess OF warning is larger now than it eve
was before. Doctors make more none,
to-day from people taking colds tnan the,
did fifty years ago, while marble-worker
and grave-diggers reap more from thi
source than from any other. 1t is fact
therefore, that it is useless to give advice
1t is true, advice. like medicine, is casie,
to give than to take, and, like most thing
that cost nothing turns out to be wortl
nothing. 1t must cost something to b
really Of any value. Still the all.in,por
tant fact remains, that there is Alright IRA
- to return from all the excess es above emu
merated. And to return, to recove
equilibrium after violent exercise, or expe
sure. is the most important part of health
keeping. A little Of that uncommo
thing, common sense, is the only requisite
The humane frame was intended for &C
tivity-to run fast, and to run slow bu
it must be managed A locomotive ca,
run very fast, buff stopped instantaneous
y. when going at high rate of speed. i
Is unjointed as badly as if it had had in
fammatory rheumatism for seven years
A skillful engineer, however, tones dow
Ms speed gradually and in this lies tn
whole secret of not taking cold. 1t is ex
posure, or carelessness. after exercise tina
brings on colds. After walking, or run
ming, or dancing, or any exercise tina
quickens the circulation, little curren
Of air from window, crevice. from Al
open door, for few minutes JUS. to caus,
. chill, is sure to produce cold. Merel,
stopping on the street in current of al
As at corner where the wind breaks o.
makes an ANGELS certain to do the job
Any sudden subsistence of active forces O
the body in temperature that chills, will
produce cold. The little common sens
that Is needed, and for the lack ofexercs,