Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — Changing Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Changing Clothing.

• Many persons lose life every year by an injudicious change of clothing, and the principles involved need repetition almost every year. If clothing is to be dimin ished, it should be done in the morning, when first dressing. Additional clothing may be put on at any time. In Northern States the under garments should not be changed for those less heavysooner than the middle of May ; for even in June a fire is very comfortable sometimes in a New York parlor. Woolen flannel ought to be worn next the person, by all, during the whole year, but a thinner material may be worn after the first of June. A bluing fire should be kept in every family room until ten in the morning, and rekindled again an hour before etin-down, up to the first week in Jdne ana from the first day of October. Particular and tidy housekeepers, by arranging their fire-placee for the summer too early, oftentimes put whole family to serious discomfort, and’emlano'er health by exposing them to sit ia jphi Jiuess for several hours every mornfog, writing for the weather to moderate, rather than have the fireplace or grate all blackened up; that is, rather than be put to the trouble of another fixing up for the summer, they expose the children to croup and the bld folks to inflammation of the lungs. The old and the young delight in warmth; it is to them the greatest luxury. Half the diseases of humanity would te swept from existence if the human body were kept comfortably warm all the time. The discomfort of cold feet, or of a chilly room, many have experienced to their sorrow; they make the mind peevish and fretful while they expose the body to colds and inflammations which often destroy it in less than a week. — HM’» Journal of Health.