The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-03
Keen Your Mouth Shut.

The peculiar arrangement OF the mar
rowed and branched and delicately-
furnished nasal passages are specially
suited to strain the air and to warm it
before it enters the lungs. The foul air
and sickening effluvia which one meets
in n davis travel through the crowded
city are breathed with greater impunity
through the nose than through the
mouth. Raw air, inhaled through the
mouth, induces hoarseness, coughs. etc.
The great actor Cooke, when dying,
told his friend and faithful attendant,
Broster, that, although he could make
him no bequeSt in money, he would
give him something worth money. He
then advised Broster to set up as a
teacher of elocution, and to impart to
his pupils, On condition of n large fee.
aud solemn promise not to divulge it,
the secret of his (Cooke's) eXtraordin-
airy powers of voice and its unflagging
quality, which was to carry on respira-
ton through the nostrils, so as not to
dry or irritate the delicate organs of the
voice. Broster took this advice. and
used it SO well as to retire with fort
une. He made every young clergyman,
who took lessons, sign n bond that in
the event of his becoming a Bishop he
would pay further fee of 100 guineas.
John Thelwall inherited the secret from
Broster, and used it with similar re-
serve and profit; but his son, on being
appointed college lecturer on public
reading and speaking, disclosed the
secret to all his pupils rs thing of the
greatest importance to them.
Mr.. Pitman gives an epitome of the
experience of Mr.. George Catlin in his
vols hn Tnlians of xxyhn,,, ho
visited one hundred and fifty tribes.
Everywhere he efound the Indian women
careful to press together the lips of
their children after leaving the breast,
and before being suspended in their
narrow cradles in the open air, and he
found it to be a very rare thing to hear
of death during childhood among any
of the tribes, before strong drinks and
new diseases were introduced among
them by tfe whites. 1t is said that no
animal but man ever sleeps with his
mouth open, and that the lungs need a
degree of rest from labor which they
get with the moderate inhalation that,
with 4 low pulse, attends perfect night
ly repose.
Mr.. Catlin attributes his escape from
malarial fevers, and his actual recov.
cry from pulmonary weakness, to q
strict observance of the rule to keep the
lips and teeth closely shut. When he
went to the wilderness he was feeble.
! He found himself compelled to sleep il
the open, dewy air. His one main pre-.
caution secured the entire restoration
of his health and vigor. He found tina,
all Indians had good teeth. which re-
manned sound to old age, and that there
were no Sufferers among them.
In his closing paragraphs he advises
| that mothers ut home, and teachers in
seminaries, should make nightly rounds
/ rs long As necessary to put a stop to the
unnatural, dangerous and disgusting
habit of sleeping with the mouth open
mo one who has been snoring through
the night feels .properly refreshed il
the morning. Keep your mouths shut
my young readers-when you reat
| silently. when you write, when yor
listen. when you are in pain, when yor
are walking or riding, and by all mean:
| when YOU are anIry.n