The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-11
CURES FOR CONSUMPTION.
Singing Lessons and Breathing Exc
cises OF Great Value.

cises OF Great Value.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 10-The follow
ing communication has caused me so much
pleasure that feel convinced it will prove
both pleasurable and profitable to my read
ers. IL begins with very strong state
ment:
DEAR Mas; KIRK-I want to tell you before 1
do another thing that am glad you are alive
For ten years have dragged out a miserable
existence because of my fear of consumptioD
which 10 our family is dire inheritance. / am
narrow I. chesteo, have had pain in my side ever
since first commenced to go to school, and a
very significant morning cough. You wrote
sometime about the value of proper breathing
ana physical exercise before Itook much notice,
out nnally sent Tor your system of physical
culture, and want to say that / was never so
wei IN my life as have been for the last three
Weess; now not only hope but l believe that
1 shall be permanently cured | can breathe
without pain, and can walk whole half mile
without resting or gasping for breath O. il |
could only write would tell everybody about it,
Baltimore, Md.
could not forbear reading the above to
Miss LeRow, knowing how firm are her
convictions regarding the possibility of pre-
venting lung and throat troubles, as well as
helping them in their iucipient stages. 1.-THE
Ignorance OF the average person regarding
such matters is nothing less than tragic, !"
was her first exclamation, land how little
schools are doing in the direction If en-
lightenment, Most of the consumption in
the world is caused by ignorance and neg
lect-neglect as the direct result
of ignorance. Children are placed in
school and allowed-in many cases
required-to sit several hours a
day in positions which cramp the chest and
hinder the normal action of the breathing
muscles. When you add to this the almost
continual absorption of bad air you will
find that the conditions of the average
school room are most favorable to the gem
GRAFTON of this special class of diseases.
Consider that school work is of such a
nature as to make the physical care of the
child one of the most imperative duties of
the teacher and think how little attention
is given to the physical from the time he
enters school until he leaves it.
us 1t any wonder that children grow
crooked and round-shouldered, and hollow
chested, and is it any wonder that so many
OF them develop pulmonary troubles? What
else can oe expected? The day will surely
come when physical exercise will have its
rightful place in our schools, but is it not
pitiable to think of the awful sacrifice of
health among young people which must
continue to go on until that day dawns?
Coming myself from long line of con-
sumptive ancestry-with father dead at
80, and mother at "a, myself doomed to
die, according to the opinion of several
eminent physicians, before l had reached
my 10Th year-if there is any body living
who can testify to the efficacy of physical
and vocal culture l think am the person.
For years after my recovery of health l
spent almost my entire time in giving
elocution lessons to persons who desired
them simply for physical benefit. could
tell you OF case after case,
which has come to me after
the individual had become wholly
discouraged, and had lost all faith in doc
tors and medicine-some brought in car
riages as they were not able to walk even
three city blocks. One such case recall in
St. Louis, not materially different from
many others except that the recovery was
more rapid than is general. A beautiful
young woman, 10 years of age, drove to the
house and was assisted up the steps, She
was too exhausted to speak for some min
utes after entering the house, show
ing most distressing condition
of weakness and breathlessness. She
was to come every day for
a week to see if she could take the instruc-
ton and how much it would benefit her.
The second and third day she came in the
carriage, the fourth day she walked to her
lesson--a distance Of over a half mile
though for two years previous she had not
been able to walk half block. In less
than two weeks she had gained eight
pounds of flesh. had so different COM
plexion that you would scarcely have re-
cognized her, took long walk every day,
and declared, what appeared to be true,
that she felt perfectly well and strong. |
never in all my experience saw a case of
such rapid as we'll as thorough restoration
And nothing but exercise brought it
about" I asked.
Nothing but exercise, as the entire
trouble had come from lack of exercise
She was a hard student, and had sat over
her books ten hours a day, never drawing q
full, deep breath. But she practiced faith
fully and ENTHUSIASTICALLY a few minutes
at a time, several times a day, Lungs and
muscles appeared to be only too glad of a
chance for their legitimate action. | could
fill a pamphlet with similar cases
Of men as we'll as women. II there is any
thing for which am profoundly grateful it
is the opportunity l have had to help per-
sons in just such ways. But isn't it dread
full to think how many need such help SIM
ply because parents and teachers do not re-
alize the necessity of plenty of pure air
and ar erect position for growing lungs and
bodies?
That Miss LeRow is an enthusiast in her
profession every one knows who knows her.
She is even perfectly willing to be called a
crank on the subject, as she sometimes is.
but | cannot wonder at the satisfaction she
feels in her chosen work when | know of
my own knowledge the sort of testi-
mony continually coming to her from
those who have been benefited by her in-
struction. Yet this is not a mere personal
matter, she is but one of many faithful aud
successful teachers in the same field and
all of them can quote similar cases. Yet
the number of teachers is not great enough
to prevent or undo the immense amount of
mischief wrought in our homes and in our
schools. ELEANOR KIRK.
LEMON ELIXIR.