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ON TIGHT SHOES, 



may be attended with distressing, and even 

 fatal, consequences ; so that, when a man falls 

 down in a fit, the first attempt at relief on the 

 part of the bystanders is to untie his cravat. 

 Indeed, the windpipe, the veins, and the ar- 

 teries located in the neck, may be considered 

 as life's body-guards, which will not allow them- 

 selves to be too severely pressed upon with 

 impunity. 



When we consider how very near these main 

 channels of life are to the surface of the throat, 

 we wonder at the temerity of the man who first 

 introduced the use of cravats as a protection 

 against the weather, or as an ornament to 

 the parts. When he was about this roguish 

 business, why did he stop short at the neck ? 

 He might just as well have offered clothing to 

 the nose and cheeks. If these last-mentioned 

 parts of our mortal frame can safely accom- 

 modate themselves to the blasts of winter or 

 the summer's sun, surely the throat might be 

 allowed to try its fortune in the external air, 

 especially when we see this important privilege 

 conceded to females in every rank of life, and 

 of the most delicate constitutions. 



If any part of the human body be allowed 



