Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-09

PIPING SALT AIR TO THE CITY

$500" 49, n DSo OAStzS Is the Dur0Sf air given
70 mans lungs. This sounds trite, know
seems as If we always knew it-but here
is the scientific evidence. 1 saw a bac-
teriologtst the other day in town. a gov
eminent expert, director of great labora-
tory. He had been analysing the air in the
various environments frequentel by Ameri-
cans. In slums, In city quarters of the
Weii-to-do, In the inland country districts
and at the seashore he collected many sam
pies of air in ingeniously designed vessels
which first pushed all of their old air out
and then sucked the new air in. These he
shipped back to his laboratory and then
filtered the air in each. Clever, wasn't it?
Sea Air the Purest.
Well, he found the greatest number OF
disease germs in the slum air, the next
largest quantity In the business sections,
FEWER IN the residence quarters of the we'll
to-do, FEWER still in the air of country
towns scarcely any in the open country
and none at all In the sea breezes So we
are getting germproof air, right down into
.ne cotton OF our lungs, and air with less
poisonous carbonfc acid than we can get
even In the mountains; for the vast water
Voiume OF the ocean absorbs a large pro-
portion OF this poison which we breathe in
over many people huddled together, or
many chimneys No wonder, then, you al
ready feel refreshed-eh?
Maximum of Ozone.
And the ozone! Yes, 1t makes you Jingle
all overhaul natural tonic of the air which
chemists can't find In the crowded cities
But they find more in the inland country
and most Of all In the sea air. What is 1t,
THIS ozone? 1t Is colorless gas, half
again as dense the airs oxygen-purify-
ing oxygen, which gives new life to the
ho,
or destroying the harmful miasmas which
arise from sewers and decaying things /
nave seen them manufacture 1t in their
laboratories by passing an electric spark
through air or oxygen, and the lightning
makes IL In abundance in the open atmos-
pierre Yes. 1t makes you Jingle after a
thunder gust, just as this breeze makes
you Jingle now. But here nature in her
own laboratory has her own method of
manufacturing, without lightning, this in
vigorator which doctors are now thanking
for the well-known scarcity and shortness
of seaside epidemics.
Perpetual Compressed Air Bath.
Your breathing and blood circulation are
more active than they have been since you
were here last year-notice it? That too,
Is caused by ozone. Your better breathing
is further favored by the pressure of the
atmosphere, which, you know, is greatest
here at the level of the sea. So we are get
ting compressed air bath, whereas as we
go higher and higher up from the ocean the
atmosphere becomes more and more rart-
fed until we finally feel the mountain sick
ness coming on. And then we are breath
ing medicated air, too, for the sea breeze
is impregnated by the evaporated elements
of the ocean; and they find that for five
hundred yards back from the beach and for
about sixty yards up this glorious air is
heavily charged with chloride of sodium
salt, you know, just common salt. No, the
cottagers, further back yonder, do not get
1t In their windows.
To Pipe Sea Air to Cities.
That London fellow is not such jackass.
after all-that fellow who is going to build
the Palace of Health" in the neghbor-
hood of Piccadily-you heard of it? He
says he will pipe air into the building direct
from the English coast at Brighton and
other places. A fellow who has been stew
ing all day in close city Office will simply
drop in at the Palace of Health on his way
home from work and get cocktail of
microbe- proof, medicated salt air and ozone
with the usual dash of carbonic acid omit
ted. Then he win walk home, his chest
expanded and fairly bristling with health,
to eat a good dinner and perhaps return
with the whole family In the evening. No,
that fellow has the proper ideas. Air is
cheap, and all he needs is pipe line and
a big pump two-something like John DIS
pipe lines for oil. Some day, no doubt
they will be blowing pure sea air into hos
pitfalls, theaters or even private houses.
ripe cream, YOU say Les, u course,
we will prefer it right off the ocean. like
this. But there are other poor devils who
never get to the sea.
Now for dip, All, isn't that fine
warmer than 1t would have been this morn
ing, for the seas temperature is always
highest after noon. But now in June it
isn't so warm ii will be in July, when
and during August the temperature of the
ocean is always at the maximum COM
mencing to fall in September. But any
month of the year the water out here Is
warmer than in the inland lakes or rivers
In the old pond where we used to swim
Why? Because such a vast and dense
body the ocean can store up more heat
and it absorbs so much that 1t must give
it off more slowly.
Natures Electric Medicated Bath
Duck your head under and let every pore
drink 1t In, for II Is strongly indicated
water. The salt Is a great blood maker
and nerve tonic. and that is why they soak
thin-blooded people and those suffering
from nervous prostration In tub baths satu-
rated with rock salt. And don't they inject
salt into the veins of people who are nearly
bleeding to death7 We are all highly
organized sponges. You know ship
wrecked sailor never dies of thirst so long
as he dips his body In the water. Your
pores are now drinking in not only salt
bit Iodine, secreted In the water by the sea
weeds and shell fish, and bromine the ele-
ment of nerve-quieting bromides. Can't
you feel these tonics coursing through
your very veins, man? And think of those
poor devils sweltering there at the Office
with nothing but tub of scummy water
from the reservoir to look forward to before
dinner. In Cincinnati. though, they are
doing the proper thing-putting salt baths
in the public Fairgrounds. But they surely
don't add this iodine and bromide and the
sixteen other drugs that Old Neptune pours
out upon the waves.
And, too, you are enjoying natures own
electric bath, for the sea Is always
traversed by electric currents, which, ac-
cording to the doctors, exercise an invigor-
ating Influence bathers Water is great
conductor OF electricity. You know that
from the way a thunderstorm will desert
the land and follow the nearest river. But.
speaking Of rivers. do you know that sea-
side places which are near the mouths of
these big fresh-water streams are far less
healthful than those far away from such
outlets Why? Well, it is theory lately
advanced by chemists who find that where
fresh water mikes with sea water the
chemical action releases Into the air large
amounts OF sulphurated hydrogen-that dis
gushing smelly stuff that we used to uncork
in school when we wished long recess
So that Is one reason why New Workers
right there at the mouth of the Hudson
don't benefit from their .Eea air as they
should. and why they have to swarm to
places like this.