Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-12

inut Nllni power is electricity Is
nbundantly proved directly. hut the
way VIC arc compelled TO lnsulatc the
body TO keep life In II proves l.eyond
doubt that tho vitality is electricity.
4 man cannot live unless his body Is
all the time insulated" SO speaks Il
modern scientist
When l.cydcn jar Is put In Il dry
atmosphere" he SAYS. lit holds It's
electricity for hours When nut I'm A
damp room II loses II Immediately.
Pot stman in dry atmosphere and even
consumptive may get well and live
10 an old age. hut put n man In n
damp room without shoes or clothing
to inslllntc his body and he Will die
with pneumonia In day or two. No
human being or animal can live with
out Tho body being insulated to ire
vent the waste OF the electric vitality.
Water Is the best conductor of
electricity Lightning rods always
rmna into the ground far enough 10
roach moisture. else electricity run
ming Into dry earth would cause mn
explosion. In all electric wires for
teiegrnphing one wirc has To bn
grounded to moist earth. There Is no
person who Is not hurt by dnmpncss
a we'll person Is given cold. for so
much electricity escapes from the
body that he is left cold. His cold
condition closes the pores, which nrc
the body ventilators. This leaves too
mitch waste matter for tho oxcrctory
organs TO eradicate. The whole bodv
IN IN II weakened condition from loss
or electric force and ono Is IN. When
q weak person becomes damn so much
electricity Is conducted from him that
u may give him pneumonia with many
chances of death.
This Is why ones rheumatism ot
neuralgia gets worse OH damn day.
Tho waste OF electricity makes the
face nerves too cold. The neuralgia
becomes worse before rain when the
air Is moist. hut II II should lightning
to any extent. thus llbcratIng much
electricity into the air. again The neu-
ralgia gets better Enough cloc,ric,.
IN Is In turn absorbed 10 mako ono
feel well. In fact, DR.. brown Scouarl
and other authorities regard rheuma.
tism and neuralgia as caused bv too
little electricity in tho body.
The lassitudc of the inhabitants of
low, damp countries has It's natural
causo In the vital electricity hcing
drawn from the system by the damp.
conducting air The energy ana vim
OF mountaincers comes from the air
of high attitudes being dryer. and dry
ar Is poor ccndnctor. One In the
mountains preserves most Of his cleo.
trio force and one In the damn low
lands loses much
No one has been able to oyplail,
why In the dry Bulgaria 100 ont OF the
d,pOU inhabitants have gone beyond
the century mark. and one recently
celebrated his hundrcdth marriage
anniversary. The Insulation of high,
dry air explains il all The tabelands
Of Mexico often have centcnarians.
This is why consumptiyos have 10
70 to tho mountains. and especially
to tho high, dry. desert platoaus of
the Rocky Mountains. This is why
the tired, overworkcd man ana ncr-
VOWS woman 80 To the mountains In
The summer. This Is WHY all low
countries are more or less unhealthy.
NJ Pelciin found bv the electro
meter that the electricity increases
with the distance from the surface of
the earth This accounts for The
hcalihiness of high mountains as we'll
ms from the dryer air Insulating The
body.
Heat dries tho air. which is as i'm
nortant as warming il to suit the ifc
Temperature. Great cold Is not fell MS
much whore the air is dry as where
IL IS lowland damp. Twenty to 40
degrees below zero does not hurt one
iii dry air as much as zero weather
in low, damp sections.
"Hcat dries the surfaces of the skin
rs we'll as the air. thus rendering il
insulated from electric waste. Grease
aud fat are non-conductors, This is
Why the Eskimo and the Northern In
sdians dress in greasy skins and fcath-
crs This Is why the New iHolandor
beE1nears the body with fish oil. This
IL why tile Eskimo cats the whale
blnbber TO get moro Insulating fat into
the body. This is why The fat man
does not get as cold AS the lean man.
he does not lose as much electric
heat
TO insulate the body Is the reason
the civilized man wears the non CON
Quoting cottons. silks and wonlens.
Cotton is more of a conductor than