Smyrna times., 1876-11-15
SeaSOnable Weather.

There are some people who hail the ap-
pearance of what is termed seasonable
weather as q source of congratulation and
pride themselves on taking brisk exercise
in all weathers and never coddling. And
no doubt to a man who can take cold
bath every morning with relish (he has
perhaps fire in his dressing-room,) who
can eat hearty breakfast land has good
breakfast to eat, and start off in his Ulster,
the present weather is not SO disagreeble.
1t rouses him to take active exercise,
sharpens his appetite and as he says, "pulls
him together" But there is another way
of looking at the weather, and it is the
way, unfortunately, that most people have
to regard it. An old officer after dining at
at his club and sitting at his club room fire,
turns out into the street and meets keen
northeast wind if his pulmonary and cir
culatory organs are not in fine working
order he contracts a bronchitis, and a
rapid congestion of the lungs soon gives
rise to that promotion which his juniors
had almost despaired of from his having
long blocked the way. Or an individual
who has long lived regularly but well,
sir,"-that is, he has lived a trihe too we'll
finds that the same kidneys which had
already been working at high pressure dc
not accommodate themselves to the extra
amount Of duty suddenly thrown upon
them and attack Of gout or sciatica is the
result.
The snow-sodden boots of children anC
the keen frosty air suddenly develop chill
blains, and the biting wind terrible tes
to every ones weak places. The physician
endeavors with infinite pains and by tn,
aid of his various appliances to elicit infor
, nation as to the nature and seat Of tn
, patients disorder, but this weather sool
makes manifest the weak and vulnerabl
places in patients system.
, The hitherto latent affection of lung
suddenly developed into activity, and tn
/, northeast wind finds out the stopping in
t tooth. or searches out the end of all tn
5 nerves at all disposed to neuralgia, and
causes the benumbed and chilblained finger
t of the pianist to lose their cunning. You
$ dark olive-complexioned man, regular {
s his desk in the city, but irregular as to e:
r ercise outside his office, finds himself su
o fering from violent bilious attacl
|. attended with shivering, nausea, heac
e ache and loss of appetite, and has
r wrench himself from that desk to whic
= habit has so long chained him, and abol
d which he has boasted that he was "alwa,
e to be found there at his work, SIR"
o such be the evils to which the rich an
|. well-to-do are exposed, what must be Il
v sufferings and privations of the poor?
!. any one will only attempt to realize VIII
r it is never to feel warm-and there a
is many poor women, and very old and your
I. persons especially, who never know VIII
q. it is to be 'warm-he will have some idea
e what the poorer classes undergo duril
d the season. When they become i'll Il
% hospital OF the work house is open to theI
10 and they look forward, perchance, to dea
n as a prospect Of relief from physical 81
" fering at any rate. Seasonable weather
a melancholy practical application of Il
Darwinian dogma; the fittest only survi
E. in that terrible struggle for existen
le through which so many have to pass duril
oi the rigors Of an English winter.-T
IL Lancet. e.rl ... 3.