The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
BREATHE FRESH AIR, NIGHT AND DAY.

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 Breathe all the fresh air you can get. night and day. That's what fresh air is for The fearsome legend about the balefuI influences of might airs' is only another of the carefully nursed Insanitary bequests from our
 ancestors according to Senior Sur geon Banks. of the United States Public Health service
 Whence this superstitition arose may only be slrTnised. Perhaps 1t is
 a survival Of the primeyal, cult of sun worship Our forbears were wont to caution their offspring to tbe
 careful about the night afr'' or dhiI-
 dren were ordered to 'scome in out
 of the night air. = It is perhaps for
 tunate for the; children living in the
 Arctic circle where the nights are six
 months long. that the lssqut1naux
 mothers do not entertain this crude notion about nj ght air, else their progeny would spend halt the year indoors
 This idea is generally prevalent and even one of our we1l-known. flowers is loaded down with the hor-a ribIe name of Deadly Nigh4shadep as sort ofSverbal relic of thIs old notion The loW-lyfng mist or fog that sometimes gathers about the surface Of the earth under certain atm ospherfc conditions, after sunset, was held, is held, to be ssrniasInatic'' and pregnant with letha1 possibiIities5
 This is worthy of all the respect that
 should be put to any hoary supersti-
 tition, but it's place is. in the speci-
 men jars of an archaeologicaI
 Tnslseuns not in the show room Of xnodern inte1lig gent life. The night air, minus the suI1,sAs no different from the atlnosp here or al EsIn1ess day The atm sDherfc en- | - 1G -LE- .kT. af- from benign to malitgn in the twink ling Of an eye after sundown It tsis still composed of oxygen, nitrogen argon and carbon dioxide in the nor mal proportions for the given locality The open air treatment of tubercu- Iosis and it's kindred allies had first to combat this venerable jargon about the deadliness o{ night air, ;antf only the remarkable results of this hygienic aid to it's cure brought the expectations to a realization of the shines of their ingrained nocto- phobia-
 This generation has witnessed tn e Emancipation of human beings in re- fspect to the value of fresh air. whether in bulk or in smaller drafts. 7 From being a people irr : 1 mersed in hermetfcalIy sealed roorrs at night, breathing our own bodily texhalations over and over again, a feonstantly increasing number Of Sper- sons are sleeping in the open, Of at least with open windows, sumTner and winter, to their great benefit. In the morning they are refreshed with the pure oxygen of the air breathed
 during sleep, not :sstewed, nor "seedy' after eight hours spent in
 respiring and re-spiring secondhand land shop-worn air in closed bed- Iroom-S
 l A story from the trenches is that I a soldier wrote home to his wife to
 open her windows at night as he had Hound that the night air didn't hurt
 one bit.'' That is the experience of 1 all the advocates of this sensible cus- tona-once tried this old custom of
 sealing ones self in an air-tight bed troom is never renewed. Diseases which involve the lungs can usually be traced to their beginning in poorly
 ventilated sleeping apartments, inside
 rooms that do not have a share of the atmosphere. Nothing can live well or long without oxygen in the l air, and it was given to us for breath ] ing, night and day. not to be taken iri lsparingly, as if it were dangerous potion. Some people are actually afraid of ordinary, common air. l Those eInancipated persons who I open their windows at night will tell you, unanimously, that they cannot
 breathe in a chamber unless the window Is raised, their sense of com I ing qualities of fresh air. No greater
 prophy1actic advice can be prornuI- gated than to breathe all the fresh
 atmosphere air you can get, night and day.
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