Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-04
BENEFITS FROM CHANGE OF AIR,

lnvalids Are Often Helped by Removal
from Their Old Environments.
A very favorite last resort of the eigh-
tenth century physician wes to send
q patient to visit the place of his birth,
since it was thought that natal air.
would be likely to prove peculiarly ben
efcial. This last theory, although
somewhat ludicrous when viewed from
our modern standpoint, strikes me as
being somewhat more than a mere
piece Of plausible empiricism. 1t shows
that, in spite of the terrible faith In
physic, the doctors in those days did not
lose sight of the Importance Of con-
forming to natures program.
Although the beneficial effect of sea
voyages was to some extent recognized
it is easy to understand that the ships
of the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turies, damp and stuffy below and pro-
visioned with salt junk and hard bis
cults, scarcely gave broken-down in
valid fair chance of deriving any great
amount of good from change of air
taken under such conditions.
Generally speaking, we now consider
that sea and mountain DIR owes its
virtue to its freedom from organic i'm
rurities. Probably it is this quality
moro than any other which gives it its
reyiving effect on those who have been
living in the clogged and polluted at
mosphere of large towns. Yet purity
of atmosphere is no preventive Of those
very ailments which bring the majority
of patients to seaside watering places
and highland sanitariums. If any in
valid who has thus sought relief were
to take careful note Of the natives OF
his favorite health resort he would
probably be disquieted to find that pale,
eiclely children and ailing adults were
by no means uncommon. Patients with
weak lungs are often sent to winter in
Devon and Cornwall, although the NOR
tality iron pulmonary diseases among
the permanent residents of these
favored counties is not whit less than
among the jewellers il the midlands
and the north. Yet the undoubted fact
remains to be accounted for that such
migrants to warmer climes almost al
WAYS derive marked benefit from the
change.-National Review.
ONE STUDENTS BAD MISTAKE.
He Tries to See Young Woman at the
Northwestern University
This is an incident which illustrates
the exciting times which the students
of the Northwestern university have
once in awhile. 1t hinges on rule in
the government of woman's hall, which
is the dwelling place of the young wom-
EN- students. That rule is in effect that
no young man may call and succeed In
passing the portal Thursday evenings.
And it happened one of the young men,
who is in his first football year, tried to
get a few moments of profound conTer.
sation Thursday evening with one OF
the dwellers of woman's hall. He knew
the Thursday evening rule. 1t Is the
first rule he learned at the university
When he rang the bell he waited lit
tie while and q young woman appeared
"Take this card to Miss -"
"It is against the rule. This is not
calling night"
"oh, that's all right. Here's quar-.
ter for you. Now hurry up like good
girl"
"You will pardon me if don't do as
you wish," said the young woman =
am Emily Huntington Miller, dean OF
woman's hall, and I cannot violate such
an important rule for quarter owing
to the responsible position which ]
hold"
The student recovered from the shock
sufficiently to get home that night un-
assisted, but. he has q relapse every
time he sees the dean Of woman's hall.
Thursday evening was the first time ne
learned that the timid-looking little
woman was really Miss Mller.-Chica'
GO Chronicle. =. =.
Encouraging.
softly-By Jove, old fellow, when a
mans in love he begins to think thar
his eyes are open for the first time.
sympathizing Friend-Yes, and when
lt,s;all over he sometimes has the same
Bensation.-N. Y. Truth.