The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-08
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H.Was one of those beautiful DAYS In
early spring. The air was balmy, the
sun bright, the sky blue. The: blue
birds and'the martins had returned and
the first robins were singing their.
matin songs. The little crocus was
in bloom, and the hyacinth and the
narcissus were peeping up through the.
earth. All nature seemed Drumming
over with health and JOY, says Medical
Talk for the Household 5
A woman, frail and fragile, stood at
her window looking Quit the beauti.
full world. She longed to go out nd min
gle with the joyousness and the beauty,
but she was afraid to do so. She was
afraid of Gods great outdoors that is
filled with the fresh, pure, rejuvenat-
ing air: Afraid that the life-giving OK
ygen would make her sick.
+ In the first chill days of November,
she had gone into her house andclosed
the windows and doors, set the furnace
going, and lighted the fire in the crate.
Night and day this furnace was kept
burning. Night and day the windows
We're closed. When the colder days of
winter came, she stuffed every crack
and Granny of the window with paper
and old rags, and over the crack of the
door she hung a heavy shawl. In this
hot-house of unwho]esome,. disease
breeding air she had stayed all winter.
If she ventured to 60 from one part
OF the house to another, she put on
two heavy shaw1s, one, around her
shoulders and one over her head.
On entering the house, wave of hot,
ill-smelling air struck you. The air
was heavy and close and dead. But
this woman don't know it. It was the
only kind of air she breathed She had
forgotten what fresh air was like.
One day this sick house-plant ven-
tured out to see neighbor. Although
swaddled with wraps, she caught cold.
She went to bed and sent for doctor.
The doctor came and gave her some
medicine, but said never {. word about
the close, hot, stuffy room and the ut
ter lack of ventilation. He left her
there to breathe over and over again
that contaminated air and to swallow
his poisonous drugs What an iron
constitution she. must nave had to
withstand both the poison of the air
and the poison of the Doctors med
icine!
Saturated with the carbonic acid gas
of impure. air, is it: any wonder her
food doesn't digest, that she has Sc
we're headaches and takes cold so cas-
lily? She has deprived her system Of
the great health-giving element, oxy-
gen. The organs of her body have be-
come torpid and weak and fabby for
the want of exercise and fresh air.
Her lungs are starved for oxygen, and
they cannot furnish pure blood to the
system. The waste products Of the
body have accumulated. Her whole
system is clogged with the debris that
the oxygen would have burned out, or
aided the other organs to have thrown
off.
There she stands this beautiful
spring day, her windows and doors
closed, and the furnace still pouring
it's hot air into her demonstrating
there, weak and sick, in that vitiated
air. gazing out into the world of health
and life and beauty, but afraid of it all.
Not afraid of the doctors poisonous
drugs, but afraid of Gods fresh air.
What objectionable ignorance in
this day and age of the world! Afraid
of fresh air! What presYmptous arro-
gance to assume that air must be heat
ed and made foul before it is safe to
inhale it. What wicked insinua ton
against God to suppose that He would
surround His creatures with an atmos-
phere that means death to- them to
breathe it.