132 ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. 



strict attention should be paid to its develop- 

 ment and preservation. The child at an early 

 age should be guarded against all that would 

 tend to weaken or derange this desirable attri- 

 bute of the human system. 



Exposure is one of the principal sources of 

 injury to the constitution, and therefore the 

 clothing should always be adapted to the season 

 of the year, and the temperature of the air, 

 whether children are at home or abroad. Girls 

 are generally clothed sufficiently warm while at 

 home, but when they are going from home, they 

 change their warm apparel for thiner and cooler 

 garments. They are often allowed to expose 

 themselves to the chilling blasts of winter, with 

 their arms naked, their breasts and shoulders 

 exposed, and their feet clad with thin stock- 

 ings and shoes, in the place of those just laid 

 aside, which were warm and comfortable. — 

 This is a practice that cannot be too much 

 deprecated, being one of the great evils of dress 

 and fashion, upon whose altar thousands have 

 been sacrificed. How many do we find in these 

 days with enlarged tonsils and broken croaking 

 voices, the fruits of exposure and nothing else? 



