Evening star., 1917-01-21
It's Good Old World if You Kno,o
H0w to Breathe

7 ONCE had the misfortune to know pessimst
There was some excuse for his pessmism He was
Il narrow-chested chap threatened with tuberculosis
He had given himself up for lost, and the rest of
were hoping the end would not be long delayed.
Then, night, somebody induced him to go to
singing school.
saw him year later. His chest filled OUT there
sparkle in his eye his laugh could be heard city
block away. He a resurreced and transformed man.
the world
He had simply learned hom to BREATHE
The average goes through life with one
third of his or her lung capacity totally unused.
That is is Why when you run you get stitch in your
side" The stitch caused by the unfolding OF some OF
the lung tissue that you ought to use but don't
Even when yo. practise deep breathing exercises you
SO Dr. William Lee Howard says in his interesting new
book, Breathe and BE Well.
You expand your chest but the really important part
of your breathing is done with your diaphragm big
fiat muscle that forms the floor of your chest.
And the abdominal muscles the boys that you
need to train if you are to get the most out OF your
FIJI! lungs until you feel your stomach muscles
pressing hard against your belt.
That that your diaphragm has Strengthened
down and is massagng the top of your stomach and
ntesnes-helpng along with the process of elimination
When you breathe out do it forcbly, with the stomach
muscles like horse snortng without the snort.
Your stomach and inestines will be forced up against
the diaphragm again and given another massage.
Breathing IN IS Important bit breathing ont much more
important
nate in the intestines
And of them-a -auto-inoxcation, constipation
would disappear if the stomach muscles got the
else they ought to get through deep, forcbe breathing
Doctors have long known that massage OF the abdomen
actually increases the number of red corpuscles
Formerly it thought that the massage simply
located and chased into circulation lot of red corpusces
that lying around in blind alleys
That part of the explanation: here's the other part
There is secreed in the suprarena glands, DR..
Howard explains, substance called epinephrin, very
powerful stimulant to the red corpuscles
"Massage Of the abdomen drires the epinephrin into
action, which forces the bloodcels to take mp orNgen
By proper breathing you are furnishing the orMen'
Read sometime book by man like Thoreau,
John Burroughs, or Stewart Edward Whte-one of the
great open-ar writers.
Then, while the impression of it's rch bounding opti-
mism is still strong upon you pick up book written by
one of the Russian novess by of modern
ong-haired writer's who believe that realism necessarily
murder and drunkenness and prostitution
What difference in the books! And what makes the
difference?
The reast will tell you scornfully that it is because
he thinks deeply, while the healthy optimistic writer
thinks specifically.
AS matter of fact, the difference is not in the brains
of the two men, but in their ivers.
Is not the depth Of their thinking much as the depth
Of their lungs.
The corpuscles of the red and fed with oxygen:
the corpuscles of the other pale and fed with cigarette