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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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"At
times,
you
miss
from
the
gay
assemblage
some
former
ornament--you
inquire
about
her--she
has
taken
cold.
Inflammation
of
the
lungs,
caught
it
in
an
accidental
draught
of
air
by
one
of
these
fair
half-dressed
beings,
carried
off,
not
long
since,
one
of
the
gayest
and
fairest
of
the
belles
of
the
season--after
an
illness
of
three
days.
"Preservation
of
the
health
ought,
from
an
early
stage
of
existence,
to
be
enforced
as
a
duty
upon
the
young.
To
walk
daily;
to
have
daily
recourse,
in
summer,
even
twice
a
day,
to
the
sponging
with
cold
water,
or
the
shower-bath;--to
eat
sufficiently
of
plain,
nutritious
food;
to
keep
the
mind
calm--these
are
duties;--they
should
be
habitually
exercised.
Care
should
be
taken
not
to
come
out
heated,
with
a
shawl
just
pinned
across
the
shoulders,
from
a
heated
room.
Where
there
is
delicacy
of
the
lungs
or
windpipe,
yet
not
sufficient
to
render
a
withdrawal
from
evening
parties
necessary,
the
use
of
a
respirator
at
night
is
desirable.
It
is
usual
to
have
recourse
to
this
valuable
invention
only
when
disease
is
actually
existing--as
a
preventive,
it
is
neglected.
Yet,
preserving
the
temperature
of
a
warm
room,
it
is
an
excellent
precaution,
and
can
easily
be
assumed
when
the
shawl
or
cloak
is
put
on.
The
atmosphere
of
a
city
is
destructive
where
there
is
any
pulmonary
delicacy,
and
who
shall
say,
where
there
is
not
pulmonary
delicacy?
In
this
climate,
there
is
a
tendency
to
it,
more
or
less,
in
almost
every
family,--at
all
events,
it
is
too
easily
induced
in
our
predisposed
constitutions,
by
cold,
aided
by
the
debilitating
effect
of
heated
rooms
and
an
artificial
mode
of
existence,
and
accelerated
also,
most
decidedly,
by
bared
shoulders.
For,
in
this
climate,
it
is
scarcely
ever
safe
to
lay
bare
that
portion
of
the
frame,
the
back
and
chest
in
which
the
lungs
are
seated;
and,
although
custom
may
greatly
lead
to
diminish
the
injurious
effects,
the
sudden
chill
may
strike,
and
may
never
be
recovered.
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