CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-05-21
Music al Messages
Edited by L. D. Eichhorn

Reason for today's Messages is the
unreason of SO many people having
colds so much of the time. So many
suffer from common colds at all sea-
sons that whatever can be done ought
to be done. In the hope that someone
may be helped by the following very
practical suggestions. they are Of
fered today with the editors testimony
that they have been of untold benefit
to him and to many pupils and friends.
Try them and you will pass them on.
How to Avoid Colds.
Many people have the misfortune,
either from want of a judicious di-
| rection of their personal habits or
from constitutional or inherited ten
! taking cold" The inconvenience,
discomfort and danger OF such a ten
dency are considerable, and the sub
jects OF 1t will doubtless find 1t worth
their while to try a remedy given by
correspondent in a contemporary.
He describes how, for many years,
his occupation took him into crowded
night meetings, where the air
was not merely, vitiated. but
poisonous. and the heat was Intense.
He would often rush out of the meet
ing bathed in perspiration into the
chill air of a winter night, but he new
er took the slightest cold. He attrib-
utes this immunity entirely to the
practice which he invariably adopted.
At the first touch OF cold air he took
a deep inspiration and then held his
breath for half a minute, In the mean
time walking as fast as he could. Dur
ing that half minute the pores Of the
skin were closed against the chilling
atmosphere, and by the time the lungs
called for reinvfgoration the body had
considerably cooled and the risk OF
the chill was over.
He recommends the practice to pub
lie speakers, vocalists, entertainers
and others who are Obliged. to fire.
quent unduly heated and badly ventil-
ated rooms. He suggests that the eff
cacy OF this plan may be more read
lily realized by recalling the fact, that
so long as the breath Is held the skin
is absolutely impenetrable to the
sting of beo.
Respiratory Capacity.
Enlarged breathing capacity is de-
sirable for many reasons. It not only
insures an abundant supply OF oxy-
gen-which may be called Its direct
effect-but, indirectly. it produces re-
suits of great esthetic value. 1t deep
ems and broadens the chest. causing
the figure to become more erect, the
step more elastic and vigorous, and
the carriage OF the body more pleasing
and graceful.
Keep Your Mouth Shut.
Dr. Footsoft says that this Is the
secret of avoiding colds: The man or
woman who comes out OF an over
heated room, especially late at night.
and breathes through the mouth, will
either catch a bad cold or irritate the
lungs sufficiently to cause annoyance
and unpleasantness. II people would
Just keep their mouths shut and
breathe through their noses. this diff
ficulty and danger would be avoided.
Chills are often the result OF people
talking freely while out OF doors Just
after leaving room full of hot air,
and theater-goers who discuss and
laugh over the play on their way
home are inviting Illness. It II. In
fact, during youth that the greater
number OF mankind contract habits
or Inflammation which makes their
whole life a tissue Of disorders-HallS
Journal Of Health
Cslds and Thelr Eject.
There seems to be NO way BY WAicn
pupils will completely lose he hobit
Of catching cold and the asestisa -
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