The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-12-12
Lung Trouble.

We often hear the remark, thai what
is good for one man is bad for an
other. If we are to believe the report
which comes from the east, the coal
famine and the high price of coal will
prove a blessing in disguise to many
people while 1t viii be the reverse to
many others.
Noted physicians are now claiming
that lung diseases are largely due to
over-heated houses. This thought will
be consoling to any one who has TO
abeat about the bush'' to keep warm
for want of coal to start the fire.
Physicians nowadays are handy folks
60 have around, not only because they
can relieve you of part of your anat-
omy, stitch up the holes and send you
on the way in the mad race in life in
short time, if you only say the word,
but for other purposes as well.
When beef and pork got SO high IN
price that ordinary mortals could hard-
ly reach it with ten foot pole, the
doctors ohimed in with long list of
reasons, why it was better for the
health and strength of man and for his
pocketbook as well, to refrain from
eating SO much meat as people are gen.
orally in the habit of doing. Now they
tell us it is better for mankind not to
burn SO much coal, that everheated
houses are injurious to good health.
One fellow who 1t would seem is a
little in advance of others in his pro-
fession, comes forward and declares it
is a waste of time to partake of food of
any kind. He says he hired out to a
railroad boss for twenty-five days, to
swing the pick and shovel dirt. He
further says that he abstained from
eating any kind of food during the
twenty-five days, and at the end of the
time he was the healthiest and strong
est muscled man in the gang, notwith-
standing he did as much work as any
of them.
This theory is that proper exercise of
the muscles and correct systematic
breathing is all that is required to keep
man in good state of health and
strength. This beats Dowieism for the
method of living and dying here pre-
scribed, is entirely free from any en-
tangling alliances with spot cash. If
this theory shonld prove correct in
practice, the people would have a jolly
old time laying back and laughing at
the beef trusts, and nearly all kinds of
trusts for that matter. Should all of
this come to pass this would be a dry
old world for something to talk about,
the political spell binders would be lost
without the tariff and the trust ques-
lions to discuss and the party organs
would be equally at sea for want of
something to say to break the dull
monotony of every day news.
1t would be trife dull if the average
man and woman did not have to dig
and scratch for living. Guess after
all when we come to think about it,
the Lord knew what he was about
when he drove Adam and Eve out of
the Garden of Eden and told them to
go and earn their own living. More
over we have not seen any signs lately
to make us believe that man is making
such rapid strides towards Holiness as
to induce the Lord to restore him to
his former state of bliss. We have
come to the conclusion that the man
must have had spell of nightmare or
was talking through his hat, or else he
was hypnotised, perhaps had snakes in
his boots, when he was giving out his
story about living without eating.
Anyway we will let some others try
this economic scheme of living before
we trust in its efficiency.