The Washington times., 1920-01-22
You Live on the Air You Breathe
Feed Your Furnace and Make Proper Breathing Study


Just long as we live we propose to hammer at our
readers on the value of fresh air.
3 Do you know that you simply furnace burning
oxygen? That you live and work the air breathe?
Possibly you think it is the food take that keeps
you going Change that idea See the locomotive Its
steam corresponds to the air in your lungs Your lungs are
boiler combined The food you ea once you
have attained your growth merely the oil that greases the
wheels of the train preventing and repairing waste Meat
and bread build up your tissues feed the group Of cells
that constitute your body. But fresh air is the motive
power of the whole concern
Think often of the importance of air and get much
Of as you Make it your business to breathe prop
erly for year two-f you have done So Once
the habit formed you will find health and strength
permanently improved medicines could improve them
Besides giving actual bodily strength fresh air prevents
disease and often cures it.
@ The late Dr. Brown sequard declared to the writer
that only fresh air could consumption, and that it
could ALWAYS cure taken in time and in quantities
great enough
Only one case had before him, he said, of
actually living and thriving with lung The onelunged
man was Americana doctor.
When he and all others had decided that the time had
come for him to die this oneunged decided give
full trial to the value of fresh air. He secured appoint
nent physician liner. Summer and winter
with exception matter what the weather. he
slept above decks Friendly doctors told him that the ex
posure would only kill him little quicker But fresh air
aud one lung combined suiced him. After number of
years he appeared before Sequard and the other
members of the French Academy of Medicine consump
tive saved from death by exaggerated quantities Of pure air
Cultivate the capacity of your lungs Add daily to
their power to absorb and utilize air.
Fresh air is the reliance of the prize fighter the
horse the actress the orator Each must work to
develop the lungs and the lung to take air sufficient
to make up for great exertion
If you have to lift heavy trunk, you instncively fill
your lungs with air before lifting If you have long
walk hard ahead of you you careful to have your
stomach empty and you watch your breathing all the
. When you get up in the morning open your window
unless you sensible enough to sleep always with it
Stand at the open window, warmly wrapped up and take
fifty deep breaths Try that for month
Breathe only through the nose, of Man should
breathe through his mouth he does he takes in
air in its crude condition No matter how fast you walk
run breathe through the always Breathing through
the will Of itself do away with much physical Distress
with colds and that angud feeling in the morning which
makes you feel though sleep had tired instead of
benefited you.
See to it that you lie in bed in such way to let the
lungs expand with the breath Do not pull bedcothes up
over your face If you sleep with insufficient supplies of
air in your lungs you lose half the benefit of your
Breathe the air in slowly let it escape from the lungs
Just slowly you take it in. Breathe regularly Take
three hundred deep slow breahs every morning and
every evening the way to and from work That alone
will add three inches to your chest measure-whch
will please your vanity It will also add several years
your life.
Remember that the blood runs through your body up
down from brain to toes necessarily 1t starts its
journey clear bright, clean fluid. It back dark
and mury laden with the impurities that it has collected
its travels through your system 1t is cleaned and pu
fed by the air it passes through your lungs Take
plenty of air to clean it, and to clean your mind well
For your mental state always reflects that of your blood
body. Remember that
- Throw your shoulders back hold your head straight
not up in the air. Draw your neck backward expand
the tight ribs the top of your chest Consumption al
ways begins at the top of the lungs under the ribs which
are compressed and which compress the upper lungs in
consequence of squatting, sedentary habits
Women have consumption much less often than men.