whose compliance with the custom, once fashionable, of drinking freely of cold water in the morning to benefit the health, manifestly. injured his nervous system to a degree, which I am tempted to suppose had its share in producing his subsequent unhappy state of nind.*

The more any one can resist internal and external cold, the more hardy may he justly be reputed. Nor is there any surer criterion of hardiness. But whatever perfection the constitution may, in this respect, have attained, long-continued and repeated chills will, in the

* After giving an account of a course, during which he drank two bottles of cold water fasting, he relates the particulars of a seizure, which must be deemed a partial paralytic stroke, since it instantly and for ever impaired his hearing.

Dans ce meme temps, il m' arriva un accident aussi singulier par lui-même que par ses suites, qui ne finiront qu'avec moi. Un matin que je n'etois pas plus mal qu' a l'ordinaire ---- je sentis dans tout mon corps une revolution subite et presque inconcevable Mes arteres se mirent a battre d'une si grande force, que non seulement je sentois leur battement, mais que je l'entendois meme. Un grand bruit d'oreilles se joignit a cela; et ce bruit etoit triple ou plutot quadruple Ce bruit interne etoit si grand qu' il m'ota la finesse d'ouie que j'avois auparavant, et me rendoit non tout-a-fait sourd, mais dur d'oreille, comme je le suis depuis ce temps-la."

first instance enfeeble, and in the second, bring on a susceptibility to the operation of the powers, that superinduce violent diseases. The true principle, therefore, is gradually to inure the habit to cold; then it may continually be enabled to bear a longer and severer application of it; but as soon as a chill comes on, be that whenever it may, to stop the process, and to take proper measures for returning to the natural condition without injury, Of these measures I shall say something below.

A middle course must therefore be pursued. It will be sufficiently understood from the facts, detailed in the preceding essays, that between the cold and the sedentary confinement at boarding-schools, girls must almost universally be chilled into debility. But were the school-rooms kept of a comfortable temperature, though much misery would be prevented, the end would not be attained. This class of young persons would not be rendered efficient, happy, and healthy. In their education every circumstance tends to unfit them for such a climate as ours.

ence.

Such are the facts, and such is the inevitable inferI am aware that many parents will fully adimit both, but that instead of attempting the emancipation of their daughters from so miserable a fate, they will con

Girls must and will

tent themselves with saying-It is but too true. But all this signifies nothing. The thing cannot be helped. be sent to these places. with them? We are obliged to employ all our care in scraping a little something together to put them out in the world.

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What else can we do

The celebrated traveller, NIEHBUHR, relates what he terms a specimen of the firmness of the Arabs in misfortune (Reisebeschreiburg, 4to. I. 354.) One day," he says, during his residence at Beit el Fakih, "a "house an the south side of the town took “fire; and the wind blowing fresh from the "S. W. the greater part of Beit el Fakih "became a prey to the flames. Every thing "had been so parched by the extreme heat, "that the houses, which were covered with

grass, and surrounded by dead fences, "ran into a blaze the moment the fire "reached them. The Arabs were perfectly "cool upon the occasion. Not a cry, not a scream to be heard in the streets. But when we condoled with them on their mishap-It is the will of God, was the

reply. We lodged in a house of masonry, "on that side where the fire never came. "We mounted the roof, and observed almost "all the roofs of the houses of the same con

"struction as ours, covered with people, "composedly observing the conflagration. "A Fakih, or poor scholar, who used to pay

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us frequent visits came this day, after hav

ing secured his scanty furniture, and with "the greatest sang-froid imaginable, pointed

out his own house, when it began to be on "fire. What an Arab loses by such a cala"mity," continues Mr. Niehbuhr, "is not, "it is true, of equal value with what an

European loses. However, though it be "but a hut, this must always be regarded

as a considerable loss to a poor man." All this is remarkable enough. But ten thousand such anecdotes would never prove the Orientals to exceed us Europeans in fortitude or in resignation, call it which you please-unless indeed any one should contend that a cabin of Yemen is more worth than a virgin of Great Britain. We can look on, while our daughters decline, as coolly as the Arab can upon his perishing habitation. Our-it can't be helped-has not so pious a sound as the Arab exclamation; but is not the sense the same? And does not the conduct of the respective parties shew that there are as true. fatalists under the banner of the cross as that of the crescent.-Nor indeed do I well know what can be said on the other side of the ques

tion: except that the wealth which we have been all the time labouring to accumulate for our childrens' sake, may still, if they die, afford us the consolation of erecting over their remains a monument, which every church-goer in the parish shall admire. Or if the machine holds together beyond all calculation, by help of this same wealth we can conceal its rickety state beneath trappings, which a whole metropolis shall eye with envy. And a troop of menials from Parnassus will always think themselves honoured alike in being put to bear cypress at the funeral, or myrtle at the wedding cere

mony.

Besides the regular severity of temperature, which slowly undermines the constitution in so many schools, boys are subject to intense and suddenly pernicious chills. In the preceding essay, I have related an instance, where certain effects of cold were brought on during the milder months of the passing winter. This patient informed me that immediately after the rain broke in, as there related, several boys were carried home ill. The accident brought that suddenly to bear, which in the usual course proceeds gradually.

But a prime incidental cause of disease and