Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-17
PERsPlRAT.oN A GOOD THING.

IL saves many 1CKSouS 0A&AAC9o
by Cleansing the Systens.
In hot days many people complain
loudly that they perspire too freely,
little thinking, that to that fact they
owe the good health they enjoal and Inn
munity from heat prostratioE or sun
stroke. Perspiration is essential to
health. A person in good health never
suffers from the heat or cold ueless un-
duly exposed. One may be iAconven-
fenced, but it is condition of health,
rather to be sought than to be avoided.
Too much Of good thing, however, is
not desirable. Proper care of the body,
proper diet, proper exercise, with pro-
per bathing, will produce the normal
condition-in which condition the heat
will not Cypress any one. Let me es-
pecially caution against the: too sudden
checking of perspiration. Millions Of
canals and tubes from the inner part
of the body open their little mouths at
the surface and through these channels
as ceaseless as the flow of time, a fluid
containing the wastes and impurities
Of the system is passing outward and
is emptied out of the skin.
This fluid must have exit or we die in
a Few hours. If it does not have vent
at the surface of the body, it must have
some internal escape. Nature abhors
shocks as she does vacuum. Heat
distends the mouth of these duets and
promotes larger and more rapid flow
of the contained fluid; on the other
hand, cold contracts them. and the fluid
Is at first arrested, then damned up ana
then it rebounds. If these mouths are
gradually closed nature has time to
adapt herself to the circumstances by
opening her cannels into the great in-
ternal waterways of the body, and no
harm follows; hence the safety and
wisdom of cooling off slowly after any
exertion, and the danger Of cooling off
rapidly under the same circumstances.
Encourage perspiration. under proper
conditions and with proper precautions.
Always keep the surface Of the body
warm and clean and at the end of the
season you will be mentally, morally
and physically sound.
Mou .tains of the Deep.
Many miles off the coast of New
foundland the bottom of the ocean rises
in a remarkable way and forms COM
partively shallow basin enormous in ex-
tent and surrounded by water five miles
deep. This region Is known as the New
foundland Banks, and is the famous
trysting place Of the merciless fogs and
ice-clad brotherhood of the North As
these icebergs approach the warmer
climate the action of the sun and water
upon them Is remarkable, and does for
them what the sculptor's chisel does for
the block of marble. Out of shapeless
masses appear forms of the finest arch
itecture; a drifting mountain careens,
topples over, and finally twists itself
into a beautiful cathedral or many
turreted fortress, set high upon an ele-
walton of clearest marble; vast interiors
formed by ley arches springing from
great bits Of breaking berg; and all
these forms draped with rich traceTies
Of creamwhite lace in designs un
dreamed of. Then, too, the melting Ice
on the crests Of these bergs falls down
the slippery sides and into the sea In
streams and cascades; and, strange as
1t seems, this water is always fresh, de-
spite the surrounding salt Of the ocean.
-Woman's Home Companion.