New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-01-18
Health by Exercises.
Prof. H. Helm
Observation-Disclosures.

Observation-Disclosures.
We are not writing of some famous
Indian Chief, but of the twisted aud
vitiated and generally distorted
specimen of humanity who hugs the
stove when the thermometer gets
down to 30 degrees, and for whom
every particle of fresh air seems to
have q fateful Significance, not fate.
full OF health and pleasure and JOY
but of dire disaster. It is one OF the
penalties of artificial life that 80
many Of ne should be influenced un-
favorsbly by the action OF cold air.
Man in state of nature, Is not sen.
sitive to changes OF temperatures; 1t
matters but little to him of the Their.
mometer registers 80 degrees or 80
degrees; be has within his physiologi-
cal system . furnace that works auto.
mstically, burning brighter when
surrounding atmosphere is cold and
banking its fires in warm weather.
This human furnace, working With
thermoststic precision, maintains the
body always at an equable temper.
ature. 1t Is We believe, y law Of evo-
luton that, when part or an organ
OF any organized body is no longer
equisite to the functionstion of such
body, it gradually, Is the result OF
disuse disappears.
The human furnace is no exception
to this rule. In these days of artifi-
cially heated building there is but
little demand made up on the heat
resources of the body itself; the great
er part of the lives of the majority Of
human beings is passed within doors,
10 houses, rooms or halls, In which,
owing to the presence OF artificial
heat, the demand upon the heat.making
function of the body is reduced to q
minimum. BY this very enforced In
activity the human furnace gradually
loses more and yet more Of It's ability
to generate heat; not being exercised,
it loses the power of acting just as
will, in time, the muscle that is main.
tanned in q position of quiesence.
Is it not, therefore easy to be
understood why the average indivi-
dual is so susceptible to the evil in
fluences of cold air? From an artif.
cially heated room he goes suddenly
into an atmosphere maybe 40 degrees
or so degrees colder; it is true he puts
on an extra coat; but this does not
make more heat; it serves only to help
to keep within the body, by interfering
with its radiation, the heat that tho
vital furnace is generating heat
enough to bring the bodily tempera-
ture up to the point where it has been
but moment before in the heated
room. The cold blast robs the body
of it's heat, and the heatgenerating
function, weakened by disease, is not
equal to the task of supplying the
amount OF heat necessary to resist
the acton of the cold, to maintain the
healthy equilibrium, and we "catch
cold, or rather "the cold catches u.s."
/. II we persist in heating our bodies by
artificial means, nature will decline
to do so by natural means. The man
who-is- afraid -of.the-s air is the man
who loves the stove; he is the man
who, because be accustoms himself to
an excessive artificial temperature
| indoors. is not able to withstand the
slightest exposure to cold.
Get . thermometer and see that the
temperature of your living apartment
is not above 20 degrees; If, With this
temperature you feel chilly, do not
supply the extra warmth by piling
coal on your stove and sitting close
thereto; rather encourage your vital
furnace to Increased activity; turn on
the draft by exercise by motion; move
about and excite increased warmth
by some exercise. Get all the heat
you can out of your Physiological
furnace, and let the iron stove make
up the deficiency rather than the re-
verse, which is the case with man
afraid of-the-air, about whom we
have been writing.