



vigorously. They are therefore tender fl 

 cannot bear what others do without suffering. An undue 

 anxiety to guard against exposure, manifested in excess of 

 clothing, frequently disarms one of the natural protection 

 against the effects of a low temperature. Those who are 

 over-careful to dress warm, and never walk abroad in winter 

 without the thickest outer garments for their bodies, over- 

 shoes for their feet, and tippets for their necks, make them- 

 selves tender, and are more liable to be affected by changes 

 of the weather, and to take cold, than those who clothe 

 themselves more judiciously, and develop and depend more 

 upon their own internal resources. The very common prac- 

 tice of schoolboys wearing woollen tippets about their necks 

 has caused more sore throats than it has prevented. 



527. Some differ very widely in their habits of dress in 

 various periods of life. I know of men who once were ac- 

 customed to clothe themselves in the warmest woollens and 

 furs, and who never went into the open air, in winter, without 

 extra garments; and these were doubled in the severest 

 weather. In this manner, they became so tender as to suffer 

 if they infringed in the least upon their law of habit. But 

 these same men, by slow degrees, have left off their extra 

 dresses, and now find them to be seldom or never needed. 

 They were before so delicate that they felt a chill, or a sore 

 throat, or pain in the muscles, or joints, or the lungs, if they 

 even entered the street, without a great coat, in cold weath- 

 er. Now they walk boldly for hours without extra clothing, 

 and suffer no bad or uncomfortable consequences. Precisely 

 the reverse sometimes happens, and the hardy become deli- 

 cate from an opposite change of habit. 



