The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-09
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Robert J. Ingersoll once made a
very stupid statement. Ingersoll had
"a remarkably brilliant brain, but he
sometimes said things that appeared
ito be clever and which were applaud
ed by the shallow Drained victims Of
his logic, which in reality were not
clever at all but decidedly the oppo-
site.
T. Very often the cute little epigram-
atical slams which are taken at reIig-
ion and which are applauded as very
clever-by people who do not overtax
their thinking apparatus-are in real
ity very stupid when analysed.
1ngersoll was doing what he most
enjoyed, belittIing the belief in the
christians God n running down his
works. He said in effect:
why 1 could have lone a better job
myself! For one thing. if l had been
doing it 1 would have made health
contagious instead Of diseased"
Sounds clever, doesn't it? But The
Duluth Herald, after quoting this from
Ingerso1l, shows what a silly state
Ernenet it really was. The Herald says:
H. Make health contagious? Why
the Creator made health SO conta-
gious that mankind has to do the
most extraordinary things to es-
cape it,
For instance, the greatest heal
ing agency on earth is clean fresh
air, In itself, it is a mighty con-
tagion of health-far more conta-
gious than any disease.
To PScaDa his c"OntaEtOn OIL
health, a has to batten himself
into unventilated homes and Of
ices where he will stew in his W
used-u2 breath. He has to AXE
the most astounding measures to
unpurify the air he breathes-like
stufing it full Of smoke and dead
~ fumes and s%tenches.
" And pure Water-another life
giving agency Of a kindly Provi-
dence-man has to do the most
amazing things to ~unpurify that,
like running sewage into it before
he drinks it.
B. But fresh air, which attacks n
kills the germs of disease, which
.!Erejoices the soul and gives life to
I the blood, which fills the lungs and
through them the body with an
elixir more powerful than mar
gz. ever has invented-fresh air is it.
= self the very contagion of health,
and it is free to everybody.
n Probably that's why it Is so lit
tie used. If it cost money--if it
were possible to monopolize it and
advertise it and charge 50 a cubic
ward for tit would be the most
popular remedy on earth.
We are moved to these thoughts
aby the coming of spring, when
men and women can get out in
THE" open and breathe the Lords
fresh air n get His ~contagion Of
health. They can do that any
time of the year, of course; but
cause it is inconvenient and--if
you take that Observation-Disclosures
ant to get out in the open and fill
their systems with the ~life-giving
elixir of fresh air.
Are you tired. mentally and
physically? Is your system SO
loaded with the accumulated self
poison of the winters indoor indo-
lence that your head aches and 10
thick and sluggish in it's process
es? Does the. coming Of the spring
give you spring fever"-lassitude,
un~accountable tirednesses and
weaknesses? ~ Eli
Then here's a prescription: Get
in the open and breathe Gods
fresh air. Take a half a day n
walk three, four, five, six or eight
mi~les--grading it according to
your strength. Walk far enough
and long enough to get good and
tired, but stop short Of exhaustion.
Walk briskly enough to keep your
blood circulating actively, but
don't operdo. If you are no used
to it. start moderately. There's no \
sense in OVERRIDING. But walk
yourself tired and hungry and
happy. For a person who is orig
finally we'll but functionally "out of
# sorts 1T is better than an *
pensiVe trip to a health resort.
TRY IT,.
Or. there's that back yard OF
yours. Idaye yon a garden there?