New-York tribune., 1903-08-16
BENEFITS OF AIR BATHS.
Remedies for "Shattered NerUes
GiUen to Summer IRUalid.

I'm afraid I can't do much for you while you
persist in sitting in this half-clOsed ROOM, said
old physician a patient not long
The sat in a darkened room reeking of
aromatic vinegar and violet smelling salts, her
forehead swathed in ice water bandages, look of
acute discomfort on her face
Here you sit day after day. reathing pretty
much the old air and again, be-
cause TO admit the sun-warmed air would
heat the room, you say And you are so nervously
wrought up you say you could not bear TO go out
doors
Il don't know whether YOU know don't sup
pose you do-that fresh air is the finest preservatve
OF soand nerves and a good temper there is Irri-
tation. which amounts TO positive disease with n
great many people, and nerves-that Is 10 say. over
strained exhausted nerves-are two conditions
which you can actually being produced in peo-
pie by bad air. The snappishness and shortness so
often seen in business offices the surliness of ele
vator boys and the bad manners of people gen.
orally are to be wondered at when one sees
the places where they work and samples the air
they breathe.
You. for instance, are suffering from an attack
of summer nerves You already nervously
exhausted when the weather first set in,
and few hot sleepless nights increased your rest
less state. Instead of finding or making occupa-
tions that would keep you out of doors. you shut
yourself up in darkened room, excluded as much
of the outer air you conveniently could in an
effort keep cool, and made desperate effort to
Now nobody ever calred his or her nerves by
resolving TO be calm. We resolve TO do things
that will have a calming effect on them; but the
determination to be calm Will invariably have just
the opposite result II did on you. You are in this
mor6id nerNousy lTiltaDie state iareeIy pecause
you have been breathing dead for the last fort
ban an9 whs sood for you
Now, am not going 10 consider you SICK
woman, in spite of all the distressing symptoms
you have been telling me. You're the sixth woman
I've been called 10 this week who was suffering
from summer nerves, and nothing you have SAID
has surprised me in the least.
What | want you TO do is TO begin a course
q air baths. water baths and open air living. l
sha'n't give you medicine. except these three
powders which ] hope will give you good night
| sleepessness you have formed. 1 shant tell you
what they are, or give you prescription, so three
! none of your neishbors overlook. want you
10 go up there every morning at o'clock and take
the fresh air and sunlight play around your body
/ freely. Don't try TO do anything or think OF
| and ianguorous I'm Sure you have seen pictures
| of Eastern beauties reclining on divans or being
| famed by their women attendants See how il
| feels 10 be an Eastern beauty yourself Being
! rich woman you easily have your indoors mar
! comfort. If you drop off to sleep. much the
! better After half an hour So. or when yol
| First tepid. then warm. then hot, then cold
| quite comfortably After three minutes turn th
| hot water of short and the COZ water on full, g.
| Then give yourself good rub down with a coars
Turkish towel No want you TO do 1t for your
afterward If you want her TO -. on .,,,,.,,
and see no reason why you should not eat 1t VIII
| your husband and son You are not an Invalid
| woman bored blue and cross Make your break
! fast nutritious but light and eat all you want
| an egg and as much cold milk as You can drni
| would make a good. typical bTeakfast 49,
| pillow in protest. But DOCTOR" she said in
pleading tone cant get along WshGut hnv my gofe Se
| brought to me in bed-I could simply not dres