text:  Now as far as cold is concerned they do so to a certain degree but not a tenth part so well as something else we shall talk of by and by; as for wet--what woman ever trusted to her bonnet in a shower of rain? What woman does not either pop up her parasol or green cotton umbrella or if she has not these female arms ties over it her pocket-handkerchief in a vain attempt to keep off the pluvious god? Women are more frightened at spoiling their bonnets than any other article of their dress: let them but once get their bonnets under the dripping eaves of an umbrella and like ostriches sticking their heads under ground they think their whole persons safe;--we appeal to any man who has walked down Cheapside with his eyes open on a rainy day whether this be not true