Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-17
HOW TO AvoID CATCHING COLD.

As the season is approaching when
dad colds are common, We ought, in
that season, to adopt all the precautions
of even a rigid hygiene.
There are few countries in the world
in which so marked a difference pre-
walls between the temperature Of win
ter and that OfSummer, as i'm ours. In
other words, between these extremes,
America can furnish, aS in everything
else 10th good and bad, the like of
every climate on the face Ofthe earth
from eternal SHOWS to perpetual sum
mer.
Next to war and pesIilence on the
one hand, and sloth and intemperance
on the other, cold is, perhaps, the cause
from which the most serious diseases
and the greatest destruction of human
life results. To the generality of per-
Sons, however, the expression conveys
the idea of an affection, TROUBLESOME"
and most announcement and annoying
it is true, but far from being serious or
unmanageable. The physician who
assures his patient that his silmenti,
"nothing but hid cold," so far from
exciting in him any alarm aS to his sit
uation, is very often one Of the N at
GfIectual means of quieting his fears.
The impression that cold is a very
trifling affair has induced many a one
10 submit himself TO domestic qnack-
ery, instead of seeking the advice Of an
educated physician, and by that means
has converted, not unfrequently, what
was really, in the beginning, a simple,
durable affection into one speedily fatal,
or to the suftarings Of which he must
submit without hope of relief, during
the remainder of his life. Even IT "a
cold" were restricted to the affections
of the throat and head, to which the
term is frequently applied, the disease
is still of far more serious Importance
than most persons suppose. How the
system is laid open to the influence OF
"colds"-the avoidance of which is IS
sential to the maintenance of uninter-
rupted good health-may be told, in a
vast number If eases, by errors in regard
to clothing. Every sensible man or
woman is fully aware Of the necessity
Of guarding the body from the influence
of cold by garments adapted in texture
and amount to the temperature of the
season; and vet colds occur rs frequenl-
" from insufficient and improper clo,h-
ing rs from any other cause, not merely
among the poor, but among individuals
whose wealth enables them tocommand
every comfort. The gentleman VINO
during the day in cool or winter weather,
wears wooden stockings and boots, but
in the evening exchanges these for
lighter stockings and low slippers, and
forgets himself in study; or the lady
who lounges by the fire until night,
dressed in flsnnels or thick cottonS, AMI
then exchanges these for light attire,
even though she may not leave her par
Ior, is equally exposed to cold, from de-
feet of clothing, ~ the bare-fOoted beg
gar, OF the child Of poverty whose body
Is covered with rags
There Is one rule for the preservation
of health which should never be for
gotten, especially during the spring, faiI
bpa winter seasons Of the year-nameiy,
the BODY should be kept, il possible, at
an equal temperature. This may De
accomplished by an undertakes Of thin,
soft fisnnel, the amount and quality oil
the oyer-dress being graduated oy the
ehapgeable state Of the weather and the
oreater or less degree Of exposure to
which the individual is subject Some