The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
CITY VERSUS COUNTRY.
MORAL NATURES BEST REACHED ON
THE PHYSICAL SIDE.
People Who Dig Their Own Graves-Eytls
That Follow In tho Train of L.iyin. In
Citics-Ozone Of the Country Atr-Tbe
Requirements of Chile rem.

The city is, rs every ono knows, n poor
place to bring up children in. Men md WON
en-. with bodies matured and properly hard,
'sncd, can cndure its bad air, the confinement
within doors and the constant excitement
and drivc-though even they require occa-
s~ionally to be trapsplantcd to more whole
some conditions for rccupcration. In tho
case of young and growing frames, the san.
itary drawbacks, Of course, tell more disas.
trously For the sake of their physical
health, city children can hardly see too much
of country life. The minds of city children
are undoubtedly moro stimulated than are
those of children dwelling in the country.
City children are much more precocious.
But this is by no means an advantage, often
it constitutes tho gravest injury. City life
does not sufficiently allow the energy to be
employed in building up, first, a thoroughly
developed and vigorous body, which may
throughout the remainder Of existence sup
ply tho necessary physical basis for the pos
session and exercise of tho brain powers,
ready to be most used when the cxigencies Of
life demand them most. 1t, on the other
hand, by too early exciting the intellectual
faculties to activity, often interferes with
the moral growth of the organism, leaving
it. at the timo when it should bc at the height
of its complex force, fully developed neither
i'll body nor mind, and already undermined
by premature decay.
Any advantage, due to precocity, the city
child may possess ut Is, will DO apt to have
wholly disappeared, and to DO in process Of
being atoIed for, at 40. But the moral in.
%llucnccs to which the city child is subjected
are tho worst. He sees too much Of the
feverish, slirewd and %unprincipled life that
is going on about him, evenin the very streets
and public places. With the utmost care, it
is impossible to keep this wholly out Of
knowledge. We can merely refer here to the
sights and sounds that arc rife in a city
street; but every parent, who is striving to
properly bring up q boy or girl even i'll a
large town, will have felt the difficulty. The
country is, undoubtedly, the best place for
children to be raised in. When, with bodies
matured, reason developed and principles
fixed, if they require a larger field for their
energy and powers, then is time enough for
them to seek tho city. Brick walls, like bon
nets and high hats, go best with mature
heads.
GENEROUS SLICES OF SPACE.
Life in the country, where the population
is sparse, and individual is separated from
AAiNat aNtA W 6SiSASoo CA1SSS VI opnSCS IL
longer, more secure, and, therefore, of course,
moro hcalthful, than life in the city, where
tho opposite condition of affairs exists. Moro
simply show the law to be universal. Induc-
ton, then, may DO said to reveal these facts.
There must, Of course, be some reason or
cause behind it. What is thati Why is it
that country life is more salubrious than city
lifc2 A number of causes conspire to mako
it so; but, were it asked to point out tho
main and leading causes, we should at once
say air, and that is the only one we shall con-
slider here. Air in the country is pure and
conducive to health and longevity; that in
cities and towns is more or less impure and
productive Of ailment and fcwness of years.
Professor Tyndall, in his studies with the
microscope, laid bare the fact that the air Of
cities is loaded with fine organic and mineral
Observation-Disclosures from living beings,
human and animal, dust, smoke, and infin-
bits of every conceivable material.
The larger and pore crowded tho city the
more is this the case. Tho horse cars, omni-
buses and heavy teams grind the street dust
so small it easily floats i'll the atmosphere,
where it mingles with dust and gases from
every industry, fine fragments of food, atoms
of refuse, manure, germs contributed by de-
composing animal and vegetable matter, etc.
The very clothing of the people gives off into
the air microscopic bits of cotton, linen, fur,
wool, velvet, etc. Smoky air, and mir thus
charged with extraneous substances, is not
only, in every sense, unhealthy, but it me-
chemically i~rritates tho sensitive mucous
membrane of Tho mouth and lungs, causing
dryness, tickling, hoarseness and congestion,
from which arise thirst and feverishncss,
and to Danish these improper diet and strong
beverages are resorted to. Drunkenness is
more prevalent with the poor of cities than
among the corresponding class in the country.
LACK OF OZONE.
From these inductive facts it is evident
that the atmosphere Of cities is, in the first
place, too highly charged with foreign mate
rial to be in the highest degree conducive to
health. In the second place, ozone. which is
oxygen gas in a peculiar state of concentra-
ton, and the most vitalizing element next to
food TOR, rather, equally vitalizing with food
which nature seems to have provided moro
stimulating even than oxygen ITSELF, while it
abounds i'll country air, exists by comparison
but rarely in the air Of cities md towns
This latter, instead, contains an excess of
carbonic acid gas, which, US all know, when
pure is deadly poison. From living in such
an atmosphere conAs lassitudc, nervous irri-
liability, craving for stimulants, such as alco-
hol, tobacco or hot drinks, sleeplessness, pal.
lor, poverty of the blood, and a long train of
ills. If it be true, US has been said, That
cities arc "the graves of tho human race,n it
is also true that the race largely digs its own
grave.
We see, then, that the main cause of the
greater healthfulness Of country over city
life is the superior food the former furnishes
to the lungs In the country the pure at
mosphere supply is, if anything, in excess Of
the demand; in the city tho contrary is til.
case. In the one place each individual is sur.
rounded by ample and exhaustless reservoirs
Of pure air, in the other he has at his com.
mand merely, as it were, a burnt up atmos
phere, emptied of many of its i%nvigoratinl
qualities and freighted with tho poison OF
lungs and an infinitude of deleterious par
ticles.
The undoubted fact Of the greater salubrit,
Of life in the country above that Of the city
together with its chief cause, here pointed out
suggests some practical deductions Doubt
less a large proportion of those now residen
in cities and towns could quite as well resid
in the country, or, at least, in the suburbs
They would certainly consider their physical
and. by consequence, their entire we'll bcin,
in SO doing. For those who lave in thci
families growing children, to do so is an i'll
p~erative duty. 1t is possible to rear childre
in the city to a full and unblemished ma
turity, but it is difficult Unless they ar
literally raised In the streets" they wi
scarcely escape physical faint from the pei
nicious influences which environ them. Git
life, while it is Instantaneous to the healt
of persons of all ages, is especially SO to til;
Of the growing, susceptible young. -Bosto
Herald.
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