Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-10-15
satchel, which IT was limited would find
favor this autumn.
HOW TO AVOID TAKING COLD.

A recent article in the Cosmopolitan
on the best methods OF resisting colds
will be of peculiar interest to women.
Autumn, according to the writer, is the
most EaYorte season for cultivattng the
power OF resistance to disease, and the
cure may be wrought at hose and with
out expense.
The first important point to DO con-
sidered is the skin, FOR the skin supple
ments in functions almost every organ
of the body. So intimately reIsted to
the vital processes is the skin that a
burn Of even slight severely extending
over more than three-fitths OF the
body is usually fatal. The influence Of
cold upon the skin causes a temporary
blanChing of the surface. The minute
blood vessels contract, and the blood
recedes and accommodates in deeper and
more protected structures. The circu-
lation, usually sluggish, is profoundly
disturbed, the nervous system is pro-
foundly impressed, and various unde-
sirable symptoms indicate an imminent
illness. These results attend because
there is failure to react at the point
Of exposure, and prompt reaction pre-
supposes pure blood and plenty OF 1t
circulating in a healthy akin. Pure
| blood can only be made from
proper foOd-not medicine-assimilated
during exercise in pure air not 10
warm. A healthy skin is a clean skin,
one from which all the organic debris
has been removed by thorough washing
not by moistenlug the greasy impuri-
| ties and then distributing them evenly
over the surface-as we polish shoe;
nor, If 1t be permitted 10 add TO the pic
ture. by wlpng off, woman fashion,
| with the corner Of the towel, through
| the week and taking half-hearted
! sponge bath on Sunday. Now, the
months treatment recommended by the
physician who wrote the article should
be commenced Immediately, and con-
sists in keeping the skin clean by fire.
quent, thorough, and energetic bathing,
! followed by much friction. At the be-
ginning il is well to employ massage &C.
casionally until the skin becomes har-
dened TO the rough usage.
Immediately upon rising move leisure
Ily about the room for few minutes,
ldav by day increasing the exposure of
the body, until soon YOU can take an
air bath Of FIVE or ten Minutes dura-
tion without discomfort. This exposure
lshould always be followed by brisk
rubbing before dressing. Soon the body
may be dampened all over with the
hand moistened in water which has
stood exposed over night and is nearly
the temperature of the room. Next
luse sponge slightly moiStened; then
one which is not so dry. Soon the cold
bath may be taken with impunity and
may become more prolonged and more
beneficial as the skiu becomes accus-
toned to it. These baths must be fol-
flowed in all cases by brisk and pro-
llonged rubbing OF the skin, and they
are merely the skin gymnastics, not
taking the place Of the thorough cleans
ing bath, which must be attended to at
some other hour.
As the weather becomes colder the
morEing temperature OF the room and
the bath should become gradually low
CT. until when you are bab,tuated 10
them you may venture TO open the win
dow li;tle on warmer mornings and
expose tho nude body to slight
draught. During the night the mucous
membrane should be hardened by leav-
ing the chamber windows open, guard
ing only against draughts. Keep the
feet warm aud dry, the body dry, and
during the day remain outdoors as
much as the weather will permit, re-
sisting the impulse to put on heavy
clothiug. Avoid violent changes aud
the lorg continued cooling OF single
part of the body. Remember that the
ldraught through two-inch aperture
lis often more dangerous than the wind
through an entirely open window, and
that the Thanksgiving dinner is as &C
tive in causing a cold as the November
blasts.