Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-23
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SATURDAY EvENIE0. SEPT. %. 1891.
Autumnal Changes.
We have reached that period of the
year most trying to a large class of peo-
l,le, when the weather is as tickle and
vexatious as q giddy.headed maiden,
given to sudden, sometimes violent, and
often inexplicable changes. During the
past week we have had a spell of mid
summer heat and today we are shiver-
ing under a chilly blast from the far
North. It is at this time that multi
tude of people become the victims of the
destroyer, who steals upon them una
wares and plants within the fatal seeds
of illness. But in many cases the enemy
of health is permitted to enter unmolest-
ed through open doors. Not only are the
simplest precautions neglected, but
through thoughtlessness and reckless ex-
posure to malarious influences many
lives are literally thrown away.
After enduring the experience and de-
bilitating heats of summer, the seasona-
BILE autumn breezes are indeed welcome
and refreshing, but nothing is more
perilous than to meet them unprepared.
The dry, cool north air of July is not
the heavy atmosphere of the early fall.
The one is harmless, except to the ex-
ceedingly frail {; the other is often a
common enemy the insidious breath of
:, de-trnver. The one may be joyously
received with open arms; the other
shrul I've guarded against at all times.
There is, of course, such a thing as
Chan .in : clothing especially under cloth
ing a;,h be.l-clothing and making fires too
soon, but in this latitude there is very
little danger of making a mistake in this
respect after the third week in Septem-
ber, unless the seasons are very much
out of gear. There is nothing more
dangerous to health than to be too
thinly or Improperly clad during
the change of the season to he
insuiliciently protected against the sud-
den midnight changes that are of such
frequent occurrence; to sit shivering in
a store, Office or counting room, or to
spend an evening with cold chills chasing
each other up and down the back. 1t is
infinitely wiser to be prepared for such
changes and to have a light fire, even
though it he necessary to lower the
upper window sash. That is, in fact, 4
mistaken and dangerous economy which
indiscriminately banishes fall clothing
and prohibits fires until the frost is
strong enough to crack chestnut burs.
There isa great difference in people.
Some arc so thin -blooded that they COM
plain of chilllness when others are un-
comfortably warm. It is unkind to rid
icule such persons, as many are in the
habit of doing. They are frequently
rallied about their flannels, furs,
overcoats blankets warming irons,
etc., and often actual suffering
is endured to avoid being made
the subject Of idle jest, and sometimes
the saddest consequences are the un-
timely result. There are a few very
simple rules which should be imperative
the year round, but which should be ad-
hered to with special vigilance at this
season, in every household and every in
dividual case: Avoid exposure to
draughts and night air; keep the feet
dry, the head cool and the whole body
comfortably warm, at all times, whether
asleep or awake, at work or at rest. For
whatsoever is more or less than this
comes of evil and is sure to end in evil.
These frequent and sudden changes of
temperature are trying, but while we
cannot prevent or fly from them, we can
be prepared to meet them, and the man
or woman of ordinary good constitution
who does this need have no fear of au.
tumnal chills and fever.