The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-02
Rxsreise nnsl Fresh AIR.

author IL Dr. ]. r. Culverwsll, an English ply
stefan:
Exercise and fresh air should be INSOFAR
able. They were born with US, but man
built houses to shut out the air and lock
himself I'M Governments taxed the light,
and it would appear, in proportion to our
advance in civilisation, we are setting al
defiance the elements OF health and longev-
ity. We are absolutely beginning to be
more careful of the dead than the living;
we are connecting cemeteries out OF town
for our defunct relatives, but excluding air
and space in our city habitable buildings for
ourselves. II is true, here and there, is an
attempt to widen street, but the new build
ings are becoming approximated instead OF
distanced. Man, in a state OF nature, had
to seek his food; to hunt for it; TO scramble
for it; and hence the difference between the
stature and health Of the wild Indian and
the civilsed man, Now, man need not stir
from his couch for a meal. LOOK at the
difference between the active mechanic, the
artisan, even TO the ill-led Irish laborer, and
compare him TO the confined clerk. the
shopman, or the interchangeable stay-at-home
of master, and the evidence of ones eye
sight must proclaim in favor Of the former;
must proclaim that exercise, with moderate
sustenance, contributes more to health, than
high feeding. Incidence and every other en-.
joyment.
A pensive man, absorbed in his own
thoughts, looking from his own window. lit
tie dreams Of wha, tissue Of moving at
oms he is composed. His blood is travelling
onward perpetually; fluids are being depos-
tied on surfaces, and again absorbed; his
heart is continually beating; his lungs ex-
banding and contracting; and even the Wis
cera have their folds in incessant notion
His very structure adapts him for locomo-
ton; and the composite movements alluded
TO, are mainly dependent upon that locomo-
ton for their healthy persistence. and yet,
like tired horse, how loath he IS to stir
What subject to dilate upon Ii is a sci
ence in itself. There is nothing still in ma
ture but man comparatively and he is call
ed restless. How many Of our diseases are
attributable to inactivity and confinement!
Tha: exercise and fresh air are essential
and salutary-that they are invigoratve-
that they afford strength and power-that
they beget and preserve health-who can
deny? That, on the contrary, Incidence
and confinement sicken the heart, scar the
mind. impoverish the body, and shorten life,
there cannot be a single doubt. What, then,
is it that makes men prefer the latter, or, IL
not prefer it, yield to it? Necessity? In
SOME degree it is, but in greater degree it
is either incidence or ignorance, or both,
The moment man gets comfort around
him, he prefers his ease, his "orIUM CUM
DIGNIraTE," and there is spirit Of misap-
preparation present in young mems minds
that leads them to seek relaxation Of anoth-
er, rather than Of healthier kind. The
theatres, the tayerns, the town rendezvous.
&C., have attractions more powerful than
the morning stroll in the high roads and
the fields, and if the one be INDUCED 10, the
other cannot be awaited of. Exercise and
fresh air are essential for the due perform
ance Of every function Of life, BY their
aid digestion is effected, the proper action
OF the bowels and the skin sustained, sleep
secured, clear head acquired, and life pre-
served.
"Well, Mr.. Orator, granted all this but
pray how are they to be obtained? How am
|, bankers or merchants clerk, engaged
from ten till four, or nine till eight, as some
Of us are, to get them? Where's the liber-
ty to come FROM" Chow am l." asks
another, ga hosier's assistant, shut UP from
eight till eight!-a druggists shopman from,
sunrise till midnightl-a publican's bar.
man o; butchers apprentice. doth as
much entitled to health as gentleman Of
thousand year, never allowed outflow
are We to get them?" Ay, there's the rub.
You must fight your own battles. The
town is astir. and in your favor. can but
little help you: my province is to tell you,
you ought to have air and exercise-yours
is to obtain them. "Where there's a will
there's way" Young men not compelled
to sleep at their employers warehouses or
business houses, should endeavor to get lodg-
ings out Of town, and should walk to and
fro. Every half or whole holiday that can
be obtained should be spent abroad. The
STRIPPING or youth, bound to the desk or
counter, and who perhaps sleeps under it,
should rise betimes in the morning, and take
stroll round the nearest open space he
may reside most contiguous to-the bridges,
the quays, the high roads, the parks, or the
fields, il his master will allow him and can
spare him. We cannot all be the choosers
Of our time. |. for instance, although
have been fve-and.twenty years at il, am
still the servant of the public, and likely,
mayhap, to be (at least hope SOY for some
years to come. cannot, but at my peril.
absent myself rom my domicil at my ap-
pointed hours; and it provokes sort of mel.
ancholy reflection to think that every eve
ming. night after night, Summer and Win
ter. from seven to nine, Sundays excepted)
must always be at my post. | sometimes
yearn for an evening stroll across the fields.
country ride, Q steamboat trip, or Win
ter evenings amusement, apart from profess
sional business, but it is in vain. Necessity
hos no law, it's osLs soopulsnry. ana I
must abide by it. However l contrive, not
withstanding, to obtain my relaxation at
other times, | am making this article very
egotstcal, but in my love for fresh air, and
my conviction Of the value of exercise |
consider my own feelings tolerably cor
rect standard of other peoples, and what |
am enabled to obtain, perhaps at some cost,
Qor It is likely, were | to be at home all