The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18


Rev. J. W. Quinby. who Whites in
The Popular Sciences Monthly, is inciin-
ed to take the ordinary statement Of
mankind that they love pure air very
much as the doctors take wornan's
solemn asseveration that abe does not
lace tight Mr.. Quinby declares In e.
feet that the average mortal has no .dea
what pure air is. "My dear friends, You
know no more of what really pure air Ia
than the blind mole down in the ground
Knows of sunlight"
The disease and pain that confront us
on every hand are the saddest sight in
civilization, and these the writer traces
directly to want Of pure air. Rarbarians
and savages do not suffer so, because
they at least get air and sunlight. So
far from fresh air causing colds, II Is the
want of air that causes them. The
blood fills up with carbon which there is
no oxygen to carry of; it stagnates and
the subject becomes chilled. There IL
no preventive for coughs and colds like
opening the windows and keeping tAsm
open night and day. The pure cold air
comes in from the region Of sky and sum
light and fills the human being with life
itself, sweeping all the disease out Of
him.
Mr.. Quinby finds that after an expo
sure" in crowded rooms with bad air all
about him he sometimes takes cold, bat
never at home, where his windows are
open always, and DRAFTS" those mon
sters dreaded like the evil one by most
Of mankind, playing about him at will
He does not think, though, that . per
son who has. been used to living In the
midst Of the foulness Of closed room
should try to harden himself to drafts
all at once. It should be done gradually,
now that civilized men have strayed
40 far away from nature.
The following chapter from Mr.
Quinby's own experience is full Of In
struction:
remembered some curious facts Of my own
experience in the army In 1859 and 1909. Twas
not strong, and indeed was hardly fit TO DO IN
| tho army at all. And when | found myself
| exposed all day long to steady rain, aud 81
night to the outdoor air, with no fire, no change
| of clothing, no shelter but a canvas covering,
| open at both ends, through which the rain
| drfpped constantly, II seemed certain that the
| death o. cold" 80 often predicted must surely
| follow. Why II did not follow was more Of a
mystery then, however, than 1t Ia now, for
| was In u place where the art OF man no
! longer excluded one of tho prime principles Of
| health. breatbed pure air, because IcouId
not help It. During service Of fifteen mSsnths,
with severe exposures, but fresh air constantly,
the same immunity from colds prevailed. re-
| membered, too, that when came homo from
the army the blessing and tho curse-at least
| one of the curses-of civil life came back to-
| gether. had comfortable rooms 10 eat,
breathe and sleep in on the one hand, but very
soon colds, sore Threats and rotated troubles
! on the other. This was the second count In
the argument for pure air.
| Finally, after nearly twenty years OF suffer-
Ing according to The common lot Of man, re-
| solved to try the pure air cure, and from that
| time to this the windows OF my room have
been open almost constantly day and night.
| The result was immediate and striking, and
for the last seven years have not had enc Sc
| rious cold, My sore throats are wholly thing
of the past, and certain other physical derange-
ments not usually associated with colds have
also disappeared.