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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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"Upon
another
point,
the
inconsistency
and
mental
blindness
of
women
are
almost
inconceivable--the
insufficiency
of
their
dress
to
resist
the
attacks
of
our
variable
climate.
How
few
women
clothe
themselves
like
rational
beings!
Although,
in
latter
years,
they
have
wisely
adopted
the
use
of
warm
dresses,
and,
more
especially,
of
the
valuable
Scottish
plaid,
yet
how
commonly
they
neglect
the
aid
of
flannel
in
preserving
them
not
only
from
cold,
but
in
securing
a
necessary
circulation
of
vitality
in
the
skin!
'The
necessary
effect
of
deficient
circulation
in
the
skin,'
remarks
Dr.
Combe,
'is
to
throw
a
disproportionate
mass
of
blood
inwards;
and
when
this
condition
exists,
insufficient
clothing
perpetuates
the
evil,
until
internal
disease
is
generated,
and
health
is
irrecoverably
lost.'
How
common
is
the
complaint
among
young
women,
especially
those
of
sedentary
habits,
of
chilliness,
cold
feet,
and
other
symptoms
of
deficient
circulation!
and
yet
how
impossible
would
it
often
be--for
women
are
usually
obstinate
on
this
head--to
induce
them
to
exchange
the
thin
silk
stocking
for
a
warm
merino
one,
or
to
substitute
a
proper
walking
shoe
for
the
paper-like
articles
which
they
designate
by
that
name!
Hence
arise
many
diseases,
which
are,
by
insensible
degrees,
fostered
in
the
system
by
the
unequal
distribution
of
the
blood
oppressing
the
internal
organs.
The
habitual
tendency
to
that
chilliness
which
has
been
referred
to
should
never
be
disregarded,
'laying,
as
it
does,'
says
Dr.
Combe,
'the
foundation
of
tubercles
in
the
lungs,
and
other
maladies,
which
show
themselves
only
when
arrived
at
an
incurable
stage.'
'All
those
who
value
health,
and
have
common
sense,
will
therefore
take
warning
from
signs
like
these,
and
never
rest
until
equilibrium
of
action
be
restored.'
Warm
clothing,
exercise
in
the
open
air,
sponging
with
tepid
water
and
vinegar,
or
the
warm
bath,
the
use
of
a
flesh-brush
or
hair-glove,
are
adapted
to
remedy
these
serious
and
threatening
evils.
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