The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-26

Then ] am in part repaid
And what must be the remainder of sbe
payment?' asked Moses.
Il must die an honest, unperjured man!
The oath that has bound me thus far was
made for life.
That evening Mary Bryan was among
the happiest Of the happy.
ARA few drops of the liquid obtain
ed by the condensation Of the air oc a foul
locality. introduced into the vein Of dog
WILL produce death, accompanied bv the
usual phenomena Of typhus fevcr.''
Such was one Of the experiments of DR.
Angus Smith, whereby he showed that the
lungs and skin were continually giving
out organic matter, which is, in and of it,
self. deadly poison, producing headache,
fever, or death, according to the amount
introduced into the system. The air that
comes into our lungs freighted with life,
goes forth freichted with death. This
ii brea;hed again is nothing less than so
much poison introduced into the svstem.-
Repeat it frequently, and the Inevitable
result is a seige of sickness and 9 heavy
Doctors bill. A. resulting trcin the lack
OF li.tle fresh air, which costs nothing
but whicn we spend Il great deal OF money
and effort TO keep from reaching H.
tobacco chewer would he di.gusted
were he offered Guid from which some
one else had extracted all the strength
before hand. A starving man would hesi-
tate long before satisfying his craving with
carton 50 toul il wonid xiii dog to par
take Of il. Yet men and women will vol
unfairly die daily'-not in the apostolic
sense, out by breathing their own or some
one else's second hand, putrid, poisonous
breath. -
We have young lady in our minds eve
to whom we shall send this article marked
She has lost her mother, r brother, two sis
ters; and we know not how many other rel
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consumption. Well-sherises inth morn
ing, having had a fire btilt beforehand,
ana all the doors and windows closed
! through which particle Of fresh air could
gain admittance. She eats a dainty little
breakfast, containing as small an amount
OF nutrition, and as much indigest;ble ma
! terlai as modern scientific cookery can in
vent. She then begins TO stitch away at
the margin Of q lamp-mat which she is Or
namenting with red violets and blue roses,
or TO add the finishing touch to a pair Of
EN- broidered slippers, with a pink-eyed
pussy-cat on each toe. Along in the after
noon, if the weather is warm, she bundles
up carefully, 80 rs little air rs possible may
reach her, and starts out on q walk OF two
hundred yards. She does this because she
has read somewhere that exercise is good
for the health. When night comes on, she
betakes herself to her little 7xa bedroom.
has it nicely" warmed, closes the doors
and windows, crawls into bed, breathes all
the pure air there is in the room. with all
the vitality parched out of it beforehand.
at that, during the first half-hour, and
spends the rest Of the night in breathing it
'.hasn't much appetite ''don't feel very
wei" and concludes she must he "a little
more careful about exposing herself"
| By and by she will travel the same road
the. rest Of the family have gone-and there
will be wringing OF hands and shedding of
noe nyN6 AZ -
the region where the lungs ought ont ID be
and coffin made, lair tight, if she can
have her way-and q sermon preached
about how ''GOd giveth his beloved Sleep"
ami neighbors will talk abont the 'm-y-s-
t-e-r-i-o-u-s dispensations Of Prov idence''
there IS separate heaven for .ocls. that
ward OF the New Jerusalem must he getting
more tnan its share Of celestial emigration.
lfthis same young lady has the least Gu
riositv in the world to know what she
should do, We can tell her, though we have
little hopes Of her following our advice.
! Get up early in the morning-which ne
cessariiv presuppOses retiring ea-lv-and
every morning or every other morning, .or
atVeast every third morning, let her take q
good bath in wafer as cold as she can bear
which, in Il month, will mean, ~ cold as
i rubbing down with q coarse towel after
wards. Let her then eat breakfast-after
getting it hersel. Then, through the rest
of the day, whatever her hands I nd to do.
let her do it with her might II, unhappl.
ly, she has nothing to do, let her start into
the country, and wait till she gets tired,
after which come back again. Ali this time
let her fH her lungs continually and CON-
ptetety auth pure CIR. Then let her use COM
mon sense with regard to food. dress and
minor matters, and she will run as little
risk Of dyingwith consumption as of being
struck by lightning.
There are some things that decay from
exposure to the atmosphere-bu live lungs
isn't one OF them.-Dubu9ue Times.
WFo IS OLA wise man never will
| rust out. As long as he can move and
breathe, he will do something for himself,
his neighbor, or for posterity. Almost TO
| the last hour of his life, Wellington was at
work. So were Newton, Bacon. Milton
and Franklin. The vigor Of their lives
| never decaved. No rust narredth spir-
its. 1t is o foolish idea to suppose we must
lie down and die because We are old--who
is old? Not the man OF energy, not the
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