The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-25

than two hours of each day in open
air exercise. and the time thus spent
will be much more productive of good
than the same time spent in any .sor,
of study indoors.
There is special need for the cult
women, for they are in special need
of its good results, and the practices
OF society have made it more difficult
for women than for men to secur
these advantages. The little girl is
! dressed up in a white dress and told
to keep it clean, while her brothers
are able to romp to their hearts con-
tent. The girl is not expected to run.
or climb trees, and scarcely to sit on
change much of this. and among 9TH
Ell things he advocated the wearing of
trousers by girls. at least until they
had passed the age of childhood. AS
a result of many Investigations made
by careful students Of the subject. it
had been found that the girl of twelve
or fourteen years Of age has not more
than two-thirds of the lung capacity
OF the boy of h same age, whereas.
in view Of what the conditions of her
life are apt to be from that time on
she has need OF greater breathing
space than he. These facts indicated
the need for the cultivation of the
spirit of play among the girls.
Games Suitable for Play.
The last part of the address was de-
voted to a discussion Of games suitable
for general play. 1t was pointed out
that he teacher who is not familiar
With the great games Of the time. es-
pecially of the game of baseball. can
guage that they can best understand.
and must inevitably lose something of
her hold on them. OF all the games
that are played. however. the speaker
believed indoor baseball and volleyball
to be h best for general use, and
gave his preference to volley ball. as
1t is a game which can be played by
girls as well as boys. and by the old
as We'll as by the young. He knew Of
play volley ball regularly, and are
greatly benefited by it. The game is
simple. easy to learn. and tends to cor
rect many Of the evils which arise
from bad positions in the school pom.
Open the Windows.
DR.. Woods Hutchinson was instruc-
tive and entertaining as ever in his
address before the educators last
evening. and some of the statements
which he made OF the subject of fresh
air were regarded by many in tn.
audience as being decidedly revolu-
fresh air::" and the substance OF his
answer was that nobody knows. 1t
had been supposed that fresh air had
a plentiful supply Of oxygen, and that
foul air was air which had been de-
priced Of much Of this important ele-
ment. This was accepted for a long
time. and then it was found by eN-
pertinent that the foulest air that
ICnl1IH ha found In tho v,ilnSt anoYNo ont
had vastly more than enough oxygen
to sustain life. And yet 1t was bad
air. decidedly bad. Again. men sup
posed that a superabundance of car
bonic acid gas was at the bottom of
the trouble in bad air. but experiments
has exploded this theory. AS a mat
ter Of fact. there is no method know.
nature. which will indicate Just what
is fresh air. n why 1t is fresh.
One or two conclusions had been
formed. however. as a result of the
Investigations which had been made.
One of these is that fresh air is the
air Of outdoors. purified by the frosts.
cleansed by the searching rays of the
sun. with the lightning flashes zig.
tagging through it. and admitted to
the rooms where 1t is needed directly
through open windows. and without
the in~terposition of fans. or blasts, or
suction systems. or other patent de-
vices which We're characterized as the
work of the evil one.
Something Happens to 1t.
1t had heen found that in some
mysterious way. nobody has learned
exactly how. that when air is taken
from outdoors and warmed, strained,
washed. or otherwise treated. and
piped into a house. something has
happened to it which renders 1t no
longer fresh. and which makes it un-
fit for the consumption of human be-
ings. Air should be eaten alive. and