The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-19
GOOD AIR AND GOOD WATER.

An editorial reproduced from tho
/ Chicago Tribu.a the other day. ON tn,
ubiect of water as a beverage was
/ deserving Of general perm Al and ot
4 seryance ana il is certainly CRAFTY
ing 70 note that there is a growing ap
probation Of water as a remedy Tor
many II the ills which fezh is heir TO-
and numerous recommendations that
water be drunk more freely appear
/ il the prints This is undoubtedly
good advice Nature mas provided two
Of her best sustaining and remedial
agents. air ami water in immeasur
able abundance free to all who will
partake OF them Air the first .
entail to life, is given by the world
full. aud yet there are millions Of pest.
pie who take fresh. pure air only by
the spoonful ami very many people
seem r-ycr "a act any OF IT, In the
coHeested population CentreC eSpec-
tally in the cramped workshops ana
over crowded tenement houses. men,
men and children are doomed to 90
through tine years with scarcely a
breath Of real good wholesome mir
They are 10 be commiseratad Yet
there are countless thousand of pee.
pie who have opportunities for drink
ing if oceans # fire h air. who are
Indifferent to It's luxury ANA benefit
ana never seem 10 care to initiate their
lungs with the heath-eiving fluid
They sleep in closed room ana
breathe the Initiated atmosphere.
when the windows might be opened
and winter ana summer fresh air b.
had in abundance AMI beside, there
are legions Of people who have fresh
air about them always Who hahitually
rein to allow thelr lungs the expaH
sion necessary 10 carry ID life giving
blessing to the unused cells of their
lung.
Water is natures next most aburd
ant and neco sary provision for heal
thy living Any vet a great many
people drink water simply because
they have to do it now and then 20
sl3ke their thirst, Indeed not a few
people substitute beer for water AMI
leave Adam ale" for the womea
atl children. Water Is admittedly an
incnrable blessing, but it IS not sufti
GENTLY appreciated as beverage ana
a medicine II Is true that many peo-
pie rush of to the springs in the
summer time to get the benefit of
waters that have alleged mineral
qualities and remedial virtues, and
they often find such visits helpful and
health restoring, but we suspect tina.
the benefit come from the
quantity of the wafer drunk rather
than from any special medical quality
of the water When person goes to
the watering place t,r his health he
makes it his duty to drink as much
water as 20 siblc lie gives himself
copious baths inside, which he had
failed 10 90 at home, and receives a
benefit Any pure. sweet water is
good for the health As a rule, it is
better to ali tain from medicinal wa
tiers and drink sufficiently Of the plain
old fashioned water that makes no
pretense of other virtue than its re-
freshing and sutaining quality One
may become a slave to a mineral wa
ter and TO his injury. bat the drink
Ing Of the cool reffesflng water that
falls from the clouds or bubbles from
the depths Of tho ear.h without any
Of earths drugs in # is a drink thai
can only be Wholesome ana beneficial
The stomach of human kind have SO
many connection andl mixture Of
myriad kinds poured into them they
ned a sufficient waahmg Of nature
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