The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-19
HOW TO KEEP WELL.
Breathe Freely and Abundantly OF
Good Pure Air.
A Timely Warning to Women From a Sem
sible Femaie-Out-Door Exercise
Something Every Body
Should Take.

We need the air constantly, both to
nourish and keep US cool. Every
breath we inhale carries into the body
a certain quantity OF oxygen; while
every breath we exhale carries off a
certain amount OF carbon. animal heat
An adult requires every day about 500
to 400 cubic feet of pure fresh air.
Children deprived of a good supply of
fresh air a. schGC! or in their homes
become weak and debilitated in mind
and body. venture to say if it were
possible for them TO study in the
open air they would gain more knowl-
edge in one hour than in half day in
an impure atmosphere.
Mothers should take some of the
money spent in gewgaws. which avail
them nothing in the end, and buy books
on air and ventilation. After buying
them read them and study them well,
then put your knowledge in practice
We live then in proportion to the
air we breathe, and the lives of our
children are in close relationship with
the strength of their lungs.
Notice persons with strong lungs.
are they not full of courage, vigor, al
most ready for any eXertior9 Then
look at another with weak lungs.
What do We find? Debility. want of
energy. No matter how well we feel,
If We do not breathe enough we lose
just so much out of oar lives. Let all
then try to learn to breathe down deep
and help us more to a perfect living.
This would be very easy matter by
practicing five or ten minutes at a
time, often during the day. especially
when breathing Gods precious gift,
.''pure air." by the sea and at the
mountains. More particularly would
1speak to women who are every day
violating the laws of health, aye of
beauty, $50 dear TO the female heart, :"
by tight lacing and false notions of
propriety and education.
Would any mother teach her child
to go through life with It's eyes half
closed? Then why not teach them to
breathe, a part of their education very
few mothers attend TO. or appear to
understand. Let women learn to
breathe. Then take their children out
in the pure air and teach them also.
Then We may expect To see healthful,
courageous boys and girls. able to
stand the school life, and better fitted
to face the arduous duties coming
later
Nature has given us lung cells, that
If spread out would cover thousands of
square feet. They are given us for the
inhaling of oxygen. and the expulsion
of carbon; this is the formation of our
breathing apparatus.
Nature, says Goethe, is right every
time, and particularly where we less
understand her. Surely, if life is
worth living. It's worth living well.
Breath, says DIR. Wander Decken, is an
actual vivifying act, and the need of
breath, as felt, is a real life hunger
and proof that without the continual
changing of the blood column with the
proper force all the other vital organs
would soon stagnate and cease action
altogether.
But some viii cry out, saying:
What nonsense! Why, we always
breathe; gracious, we could not live
without breathing. Quite true. But
we should so strive that the next gen.
Grafton may be able to ward off many
ILLS and perform the first great function
of life voluntarily and often-in a
word, be able to drive from our bodies
the seeds OF disease
/ believe that deep breathing, in
with a mild course of gym
nastics. would eventually do away with
that vile destroyer of our people, ''con-
But remember "whe goes slow goes
Iure." Let no one say: 1
''Oh, could not breathe deep / am
aot strong enough"
You can if you will only try and per-
severe. We read that centuries gone
,y respiratory gymnastics were rec
as a means to restore and
preserve health, and that the people of
East India 1900 years B. G. practiced
breathing. holding the air in the lungs
several times day. for the sole pur-
bose of cleansing the organs of the
>0dy, especially those % the chest