The Dickinson press., 1905-04-15
Necessity Of Pure Aic.

hits the nail squarely on the head. This
paper is not much given to re-printing
matter from any source, however good,
but we feel necessity laid upon us to
help give publicity to such healthy
sentiments. as Mr.. Wing advances in an
article contributed to last weeks issue
of the breeders Gazette" People
need to be educated to a proper appre-
citation of one of Gods best g%ifts--pure
air and lots of it. How great the need
let "the sickly forms that err from hon
est natures rule" attest. 1t has been
conclusively proven that the armory Of
science contains no weapon so potent
against the white plague--tuberculosis,
styled by Bunyan captain of the Hosts
of Death" as Natures own preventative
and cure, pure fresh air in abundance.
The following from MIR. Wings facile
pen is worthy Of thoughtful reading:
at is the last OF February; outside the
sun shines genially; the snow fast turns
to water; mud reigns cheerily in the
streets-mud, that substance so in6n-
itely dearer than snow. l have just
come in from a walk in the fresh crisp
ness of the morning and have been try
ing to see how much of the fresh air l
could swallow. 1t tastes very delicious;
it feels good all the way down. 1t
makes me feel young, as though l
wished to see my friends or send greet
ings to all of them; as though my sins
we're forgiven. In the hotel Office where
| write the air is heavy and stale, laden
with fumes Of tobacco and the foul
brea,hs of men whom | d~evoutly hope
are dead by this time. will open the
window. All! how good it feels!
"And this leads me to attempt to tell
Il little of what have learned about
fresh air. 1t is the n best gift Of the
Almighty, this and sunshine, and it is the
one thing most st%renuously fought and
avoided. Homes are builded with the
one idea OF excluding it as much as
possible; loved ones are shut away from
it as far as possible, especially the deli
cate ones who need it most of all are
religiously kept away from it. And
ruin, dire wreck and ruin, result. The
body dies, and with it the divine spirit;
life remains a feeble spark, pale, ill,
n%ourished, dull, s%tupehed, %unlovely.
"Men and women living outdoor lives
seldom take sick. Why! Because the
body tissues we'll nourished and we'll
filled with oxygen are strong and able
to resist disease germs. Oxygen itself
is a great germicide. Healthy blood is
itself able to destroy bacteria There
are myriads OF disease germs afloat in
the air. Entering the body OF the
poorly nourishcd, poorly oxygenated
woman, child or man, they get a foot
hold and work great evil. Thence come
colds, consumption, influenza and all
their train OF ills.
"Let me give an object lesson or two.
AT the age of "a | was a delicate boy,
and had melancholy thoughts of dying
some day Of tuberculosis. | thought |
was surely doomed to be a consumptive.
Some blessed Providence impelled me
to 60 West. | struck a ranch in the
Rockies and lived there four years.
During much of the time slept out of
doors. l have slept out Of doors when
the thermometer was far below zero. |
have slept out of doors during frosty
nights of the fall when | had taken no
blankets save the saddle blankets and
was nearly frozen, lying awake half the
night from cold. In no case did | ever
contract a "cold" from sleeping in the
air. Yet it is better always to keep the
body warm. l I'M making no plea for
suffering, and we dill not suffer save
when we were occasionally taken una
wares. ceased to cough. l forgot my
physical troubles. l gained from l35
pounds when l went ives, to Io5 when l
was at the top of my young manhood.
and never since have l feared tuber-
c%ulosis.
81 am so unfortunate as to possess a
highly sensitive nose. Would that
others had similar noses, but many have
them not! 1t is a matter of education
somewhat. When l enter a dwelling
this nose tells me at once whether the
people living there are afraid of air or
not, and, alas, generally they are afraid
of it! l find in nine out of ten farmers
homes a deafness to the air, a mingling
of the odors of the kitchen and the
breaths of the people, sometimes, alas
of foregone generations, that Cypress me
and dismay. The exception is when
find burning in the living room a CRATE
fire. That changes the air about once
an hour whether the occupants desire i
changed or not. When there is no oper
fire the housewife can throw wide ever,
outside door for a few minutes severn
times a day and let the entire atmos
phere OF the house be swept out into tn,
outdoors, where God will take care o
it, and what is poison to you and M
will be made into green plants some
where. But most OF us can have graf
fires or open wood freplaces in all tn
Eastern land.
GLOW that dull, dead, sickening al
OF the home impresses the visitor! 1t
not possible for him to forget or forgiv
it. No matter how costly the turnitur
and hangings, no matter how culture
tho f,~;lx, thoro &c ct,rpod ,pop ~
household the impress of that bad al
and you cannot think of that home wit
5 the pleasure that you would like, an
: the worst Of it is that the inmates are S
accustomed to it that they perceive
: not.
"The air Of a house should all b
changed at least once in two hours
Babies should be out of doors four hour
: ovorv I,u and thar r,o<hore Clno.:.