The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-05-29
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

Inc peculiar arrangement OF the narrow
ed and branched and delicatey furnished
nasal passages are especially suited to
strain the air and TO warm il before it en-
tiers the lungs The foul air and sickening
eihuyia which one meets in a days travel
through the crowded city are breathcd
with greater impunity through the nose
than through the mouth. Raw air, inhaled
through the mouth, induces hoarscness,
coughs, etc.
The great actor Cooke, when dying, told
his friend and faithful attendant, Broster,
that,although he could make him no beouest
in money, he would give him something
worth money. He then advised Broster TO
set up as a teacher Of elocutlon, and to i'm
part to his pupils on condition of large
fee, and solemn promise not to divulge
II, the secret OF his Cooks extraordinary
powers OF voice and its unfagging quality,
which was to carry on respiration through
me nostrils, so as not to dry OF irritate the
deilcnte organs Of the voice. Brostcr took
this advice, and used il SO well as to retire
with fortune. He made every young
clergyman, who took lessons, sign bond
that in the event Of his becoming bishop
he would pay further fee of 100 guineas
John Thelwan inherited the secret from
BFOster, and used it with similar reserve
and profit but his son, on being appointed
a college lecturer on public reading and
speaking, disclosed the secret to all his pu-
pills as thing Of the greatest importance
10 them.
Mr.. Pitman gives an epitome Of the ex
pericnce Of Mr.. George Catlin in his travels
among the Indians, Of whom he visited $50
tribes. Everywhere he found 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 il 10
be very rare thing TO hear of a death dur
ing childhood among any Of the tribes, be-
fore strong drinks and new diseases were
introduced among them by the whites. 1t
Is said that no animal but man ever sleeps
with his mouth open, and that the lungs
need degree Of rest from labor which
they get with the moderate inhalation that,
with low pulse, attends perfect nightly
repose.
Mr. Catlin attributes his escape from ma.
larial fevers, and his actual recovery from
pulmonary weakness, to strict observance
OF the rule 10 keep the lips and teeth close
ly shut. When he went 10 the wilderness
he was feeble. He found himself compel.
ed to sleep in the open, dewy air. His one
main precautlon secured the entire restora
tion OF his health and vlgor He found
that all Indians had good teeth which re.
NAMED sound to old age, and that there
were no Sufferers among them.
In his closing paragraphs he advises that
mothers at home, and teachers in semina-
mes, should make nightly rounds as long as
necessary TO put stop TO the unnatural,
dangerous and disgusting habi, of sleeping
with the mouth open. NO one who has
been snoring through the night feels prop
erly refreshed in the morning. Keep your
mouths shut, my young readers-when you
read silently, when you write, when you
listen, when you are in pain, when YOU are
or riding, and by all means when
you are angry