Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-25
NEW BOTTLES AND OLD WINES,

Il Is remarkable how many new bot.
ties contain old wine. The commen-
tators upon modern theatrical enter.
tainments may be astonished TO learn
that eighty.two years ago that fine
backswoodsman hero and innate gen.
tleman. David Crockett. after one visit
TO New York gave II as his opinion:
What pity II Is that these theaters
are not contrived that everybody
could go; but the fact is. backwoods-
man as | am. | have heard some
things in them that was a leetle too
tough for good women and modest
men. and that's a great pity, because
there are thousands % scenes OF real
life that might be exhibited. both for
amusement and edifisStion without Of.
Tending. Folks pretend to say that
high people don't mind these things.
Well, II may be that they are better
acquainted with vice than we plain
folks. but am yet to see woman
polished out OF the natural feelings.
or too high not TO do things that amt
quite reputable In those OF low de.
gree.
We may also find that the present
appreciation OF fresh air. and the In.
fluence OF fresh air upon the sleeper
did not originate with the wise ones OF
this day. We who advocate sleeping
porches. or who can no longer sleep
unless all windows In the sleeping
room are open to admit the night air.
may be surprised to learn that Benja.
min Franklin. who died In 1890. EN-.
phatically stated that another way OF
preserving health is the having a con.
slant supply OF fresh air In your bed.
room. II has been a great
mistake, the sleeping rooms exactly
closed, and In beds surrounded by cur.
tains. No outward air that may come
into you is so unwholesome as the un.
changed air. so often breathed. OF a
close chamber. Physicians.
after having for ages oontended that
the sick should not be INDUCED with
fresh air. have at length discovered
that Il may do them good. II is. there.
fore. TO be hoped that they may In
time discover. likewise. that Il Is not
hurtful to those who are in health,
and that we may then be cured OF the
airophobia that at present distresses
weak minds and makes them choose Ia
be stifled and poisoned. rather than
leave open window OF bed cham
Der. or put down the glass door Of a
coach"
John Adams. afterwards presiden,
Of the United States, gave the follow
ing account OF DR.. Franklin's fresh air
theory. which also serves to prove
that all great minds do not. nor never
did run In the same channels:
AT Brunswick. but one bed could
be procured for DIR. Franklin and me
In a chamber little larger than the
bed. without chimney and with only
one small window. The window was
open. and I. who was an invalid and
afraid Of the night air. shut II close
Oh says Franklin. don't shut the
window; we shall be suffocated'
answered was afraid OF the evening
air. DR.. Franklin replied. The air
within this chamber will soon be. and
indeed is now. worse than that with
out doors. Come. open the window
and come to bed and will convince
you. believe. that you are not &C
Quainted with my theories OF colds :?
Opening the window and leaping into
bed ! said that read his letters 10
Dr. Cooper. In which he had advanced
that nobody ever got cold by going
into cold church or any other cold
air. but the theory was so little con
sistent with my experience. that
thought II a paradox However. had
so much curiosity to hear his reason
that | would run the risk OF cold
The doctor then began harangue
upon the air and cold. and respiration
and perspiration. with which was
20 amused that | soon fell asleep"
In the light OF the present. we may
not only consider DIR. Franklin q
prophet OF great good sense. but wher
we consider that he was twenty.nins
years older than Mr.. Adams and wa.
willing to demonstrate his theories II
his own habits OF life. we may also
believe him to have been a man OF an
unusual courage Virginia Quitmar
McNealus.
j She Had "oried Up"
During his theatrical career. Mr.