Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-02
COLD WEATHER A TONIC
Repairs Injuries Done to the System by
Summer Heat.
1t Brings With 1t Renewed Sense of
Strength and Vitality Pre-
yentive of Disease.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat,

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Many persons regard the winter season
as an unfortunate visitation. 1t is consid-
cred both uncomfortable to the body and
harmful to health. This is an error. Cold
is most potent egent for the restoration
and preservation of normal activity on the
part of the organs of the human body. 1t
is a wise plan of Providence which gives us
a change of seasons. The winter cold comes
as tonic to repair the injuries done by the
enervating heat of summer. Summer, it is
true. has many wise uses in the matter OF
health. 1t induces outdoor life, rids the sys-
tenn of poisons through copious perspiration
and through the scorching rays of the sun
destroys germ life.
Winter is the great bracer of the system.
1t stimulates activity in every organ. When
cold attacks the surface of the body the
blood is ser into more free circulation as
means of bodily warmth. 1t Is through the
circulation of the blood that the human
anatomy is kept in state OF repair. When
he food has been digested and converted
into liquid form 1t is taken UP by the blood
and carried the rounds of the system for the
purpose of repairing the waste places. When
the cold causes increased circulation it also
brings about more perfect nutrition.
Through increased demand for nutrient
matter which Quickened circulation causes
there is improved digestion. The entire re-
pair machinery Is stimulated to renewed in
dustry.
Wintry air, as Is we'll known, brings with
it sense Of renewed strength and vitality.
The restorative power of cold Is we'll Illus
trated in the case of the dash of cold water
in the face Of q fainting person. When q
person is in faint there Is practical sus-
pense of life for the time yet an application
of cold water to the face promptly restores
circulation and renews life. This same fact
is illustrated by the GOLD face bath on rising
from bed in the morning. The Indians, who
il not now, in former days roamed our west
ern borders, practically without clothing to
shelter their bodies, became, through long
exposure, SO Injured to the cold that 1t gave
them but little discomfort.
Mans face and hands Illustrate how
weatherproof the body becomes when ex-
posed to the air Continued activity in cir
culation on the surface. caused by the air
coming in contact with the skin, tends to
nourish and thicken the skin. Thus mans
skin grows thicker in winter Just as ami
mails are supplied with a double GOAT OF fur
TO resist the cold. When springtime re-
turns mans skin becomes thin and the ami
NAL sheds it's top coat Of fur. The savages
who dwell bareheaded in the open air are
seldom, If ever, known to be afflicted with
bald heads, while, with the civilian who
shields his scalp from the air, badness Is
prevalent. A sure preventive of diphthera,
Group and similar maladies among children
is to bring about such vigorous circulation
and vitality, through means of cold baths,
as will render the children immune from
the attacks of the germs which cause these
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