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America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat-Part21_TingFang Wu(1842-1922)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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* "The Living Temple", by J. H. Kellogg, pp. 282 et al.

Published by Good Health Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich., U.S.A.



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The above remarks apply not only to churches, lecture rooms, and other



public places, but also with equal force to offices and family houses.

I should like to know how many persons pay even a little attention



to this important subject of pure air breathing? You go to an office,

whether large or small, and you find all the windows closed,



although there are half-a-dozen or more persons working in the room.

No wonder that managers, clerks, and other office workers often break down



and require a holiday to recuperate their impaired health at the seaside,

or elsewhere.



When you call at a private residence you will find the same thing,

all the windows closed. It is true that there are not so many persons



in the room as in an office, but if your sense of smell is keen

you will notice that the air has close, stuffy exhalations,



which surely cannot be sanitary. If you venture to suggest

that one of the windows be opened the lady of the house



will at once tell you that you will be in a draught and catch cold.

It is a matter of daily occurrence to find a number of persons



dining in a room where there is no opening for the contaminated air

to leak out, or for the fresh air to come in. After dinner



the gentlemen adjourn to the library to enjoy the sweet perfumes of smoking

for an hour or so with closed windows. What a picture would be presented



if the bacteria in the air could be sketched, enlarged,

and thrown on a screen, or better still shown in a cinematograph,



but apparently gentlemen do not mind anything so long as they can inhale

the pernicioustobacco fumes.



It is a common practice, I fear, to keep the windows of the bedroom closed,

except in hot weather. I have often suggested to friends that,



for the sake of their health, they should at least keep one of the windows,

if not more, open during the night, but they have pooh-poohed the idea



on account of that bugaboo -- a draught. It is one of the mysteries

of the age that people should be willing to breathe second-hand air



when there is so much pure, fresh air out of doors to be had for nothing;

after inhaling and exhaling the same air over and over again



all through the night it is not strange that they rise in the morning

languid and dull instead of being refreshed and in high spirits.



No one who is deprived of a sufficiency of fresh air

can long remain efficient. Health is the cornerstone of success.



I hear many nowadays talking of Eugenics. Eugenics was founded ten years ago

by Sir Francis Galton, who defined it thus: "The study of agencies



under control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of

future generations, either physically or mentally." The University of London



has adopted this definition, where a chair of Eugenics has been founded.

This science is undoubtedly of the first importance,



but what advantage is good birth if afterward life is poisoned with foul air?

A dust-laden atmosphere is a germ-laden atmosphere,



therefore physicians prescribe for tubercular convalescents

conditions in which the air is 90% free from dust. However,



the air of the city has been scientifically proven to be as pure

as the air of the country. All that is necessary to secure proper lung food



is plenty of it, -- houses so constructed that the air inside

shall be free to go out and the air outside to come in.



Air in a closed cage must be mischievous, and what are ill-ventilated rooms

but vicious air cages, in which mischiefs of all sorts breed?



America professes to believe in publicity, and what is "publicity"

but the open window and the open door? Practise this philosophy



and it will be easy to keep on the sunny side of the street

and to discourage the glooms. The joys fly in at open windows.






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