The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

nave formulated laws to prevent the
spread of infectious and contagious dis
eases; but few, if any laws have been
passed, regulating the per capita amount
OF fresh air. Free as air. is a common
saying and everyone is supposed to get
enough, although the quality is not con-
sidered.
Tall buildings scraping the sky have
brought some people higher heavenward,
but they have also cut the free supply
OF fresh air in the sitting streets. Per-
hapS this will bring about an innovation
As wind sails are employed to carry
pure air into the close and suffocating
holds of ships, so perhaps the city of the
future VIII have wind sails or ventilatOr
with their mouths in the upper air car
ry1ng fresh air to the narrow and crowd
ed streets below
Perhaps with the possibilities of Ruuid
air developed a man or woman may be
able to get fresh. air at the soda foIIn-
-tains and thus quafr enough oxygen at a.
draught to offset the partial suffocation
of city life.
But until that time does come there is
remedy open to all. Fresh air outings
their good results are limited as to guam
t1ty and quality. One day IN the country
won't Offset 1854 days in the city
Dryden gives advice which the ma
1or1ty Of conscientious physicians will in
dorse, for the true physician Is not hap
Ply at the sight of pain and sorrow bur
reJolces to see it alleviated even if he
does not make money thereby. Dryden
says:
Better to hunt in fields for health I'M
Than fee the doctor for a. nauseous
draught."
You cannot bring the countrF to the
cty, but in time there will be an exodus
rom rhe city to the country. There the
poor man is on equality with the rich
man, as far as fresh air is concernad
and he is independent, as far as wboIe'
some life is concerned, if not the sl1nerior
In TACT mere Is much good in the watch
Nord Back to the Land in the cure
OF disease of the moral and political life
as Well as social conditions
When you think of it, too. If is a x,ar,,
good country, this land of ours. Trua =
oyciehe or Two may sweep over portions
VI IT, occasionally, but there Is no mis-
traI, that violent northeast wind that
blows along the Gulf of LYONS. a drv
cola VINO that parches the country and
blows with sufficient force to take a r1an
OH morse; nor do we have the Boar on,
une Iramontana, which sweeps down the
APPS with chilly breath; nor the Pam
pero, a cold southeast wind that deva 3
tdles the pampas along the river Platte.
Nether DO We have the Sirocco or Lee
Eeche, the Harmattan, the Khamsin Of
Egypt, the Fohn of Switzerland. nor +6a
SIMEON which cuts like knife through
with flame. P1
True, there are .northers or Nortes and
the much abused east wind which tba
Spanish call the Solano and of which,
they say: ASK no favors during the
SoIano But in spite Of the saving.
P" hen the wind is in the east. it's neith-
er good for man or beast the east wind
Is the salvation of many people in sea
sons when they would otherwise die nv
the score snaitten by heatstroke.
Ihere is the southwest W nd too
Wnlcn, though not fatal to human life,
Is deadly to human temper" which causes
a feellng OF languor and listIessness and
Wits mans energy even If II ia laden
with general humidity.
Still these winds affect man more So
vereiy in the city than in the countr-v
where fresh air and fresh water are nor
measured by the meter and where no
ture furnishes health and happiness FOR
the asking. IA
Unfortunately, the physician who ad-
vfses his patients to go to the corntry
and avail themselves Of the freshajr
cure, cannot take the prescription him
self. He would gladly enforce his pre
cept py example, but circumstances for
bld Were 1t otherwise, the CITY would
De LETT without doctors within its bounds
1T Is safe to say, however that every
city physician looks forward every wear
to q Me4l-earned vacation in the woods
and nils. where there are no night bells.
where the iron horse is unknown and
even the common every day horse has
never set foot, and where, consequently
black care cannot ride behind, where
pafmy breezes assuage pain and lull sor-
TOW 10 sleep. Leon Noel.