The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-29
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
The peculiar arrangement of the
narrowed and branched.and deIicatcIy
furnished nasal passages are specially
suited to strain the air and to warm
1t before it enters tho lungs. The foul
air AMI sickeniDg effluvia which ono
meets in a days 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 Brostcr to set up rs a
teacher of elOcutiOn, and to impart to
his pupils, on condition of n large fee,
and solemn promise not divulge
it, the secret of his (Cooke's) extraor-
binary powers OF voice and its unflagg-
ing quality, which was to carry on
respiration through the nostrils, so as
not to dry or irritate The delicate organs
of the voice. Broster took his advice,
and used it so we'll as to retire with II
fortune. He made every young clergy
luaU, WHO COOh- AeSSouS, SSSu IL OOuSA
that In the event of his becoming a
bishop he would pay further fee of
100 g0ineas. John ThelwalI inherited
the secret from Broster, and used it
with similar reserve and profit; but his
son, on being appointed u college lee
turer on public reading and speaking,
disclosed the secret to all his pupils AS
q thing of the greatest importance to
them.
Mr.. Pitman gives an epitome Of the
experience of Mr.. George Catlin in his
travels among the Indians of " hOsn he
visited $50 tribes. Everywhere nc
found the Indian woman careful to
press together the lips of their children
after leaving the breast, and before be-
ing suspended in their narrow cradles
in the open air, and he found it to be
a very rare thing to hear of a death
during childhood among any. of the
tribes, before strong drinks and new
diseases were introduced among them
by the whites. 1t is said that no ami
NAL but man over sleeps with his
mouth open, and that tho lungs need a
degree of rest from labor which they
get with the moderate inhalation that
with low pulse, attends perfect
nightly rep0se.
Mr.. Catlin attributes his escape from
malarial fevers, and his actual recovery
from pulmonary weakness, to 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 in
the opcn, dewy air. His one main pre-
caution secured the entire restoration
of his health and vigor. He found
that all Indians had good teeth, which
remained 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
seminaries, should make nightly rounds
as long as necessary to put stop to
the unnatural, dangerous and disgust
ing habit of sleeping with tho moutl,
open. "No one who has been snoring
through the night feels properly re-
freshed in tho morning. Keep your
mouths shut, my young re,,ders-whcn
you read silently, when you write,
when you listen, when you are in pain,
when you are walking or riding, and
by all means when you arc angry"