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X5he MaKing' of BooKs
“Oh, that mine enemy would make a book.’
Conducted By R W McAdam
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The Probationer.
HR popularity of the short
story gives u s more and
more collections of short
stories gathered into hook
form, and right whole
some they are as a change
•from the long drawn out
and hardly sustained re
citals of which there is
such a surfeit. If there
were fewer books written
it would be different; the
trouble Is, there are too
many, and decidedly too
niaaiy from the same author—a man who
might have loft three worthy efforts to
his credit and some claim to remem
brance. instead loaves thirty-three medi
ocre volumes, and hits name dies with
him. The short story is a boon, and the
successful writer of it-not alone an artist
hut a benefactor.
•Such a one as Herman Whitaker, whose
volume, "The Probationer: And Other
Stories,” is from the press of Harper
Brothers. Jlr. Whitaker has compiled
hero thirteen stories, all of the first
merit and a literary finish which ranks
him easily with the foremost current
writers. Of Canadian life, mostly in the
Manitoba region, they are of experiences
of a hind whose rugged character and
clim&'te intakes men and women inured
to lnartliship and so to deeds of courage.
The descriptions of snow storms and
blizzards and peril and the impotency of
•puny human strength conjure up pictures
appalling for their suggestion of human
sulfering' In the battle with elemental
nature. This, for a sample:
“Flying: snow, fine as sifted salt; in
tense frost; a wind that pierces fur, wool
and flesh lo tly. marrow of one's bones;
mix and serve told for a priarie storm.
But as the gale is to the cyclone, so is
the snow storm to the blizzard. When
it whirls on the north, winds that whip
a, hundred miles of prairie every hour
snatch a season's snow from the earth's
four corners and stir i* until the air is
thick as hasty pudding. The mercury
freezos, but the spirit drops down and
down, and down. Heavy snow, frozen
snow, snow that will drive through a
stretched hide, walls that travel within
a fleecy cloud that stings the flesh like
fire. In broad day, a hand held at arm's
length may not be seen; a cry drops flat
and hollow to the ground; and at night
inky blackness drapes the twisting
chaos.”
Once a man swerves from the trail he
-will travel round and round hopelessly
lost within sight (could he but see) of
his own home. This tendency to move
in a circle is explained by the Indians
this way: “In snow, the white man
rolls along like a clumsy buffalo, plant
ing his feet far out to the right and. left.
(An Indian places one foot immediately
in front of the other.) And because bis
right leg steps a little longer than the
left he always, when lost, travels in a
circle.” Indians and tepees and French
and English and half-breeds in tneir rude
huts, make up a scattered populace the.
hardness of whose lives in that barren
alkali country would appear to leave lit
tle to Invite the story teller.
But Mg. Whitaker has an eye for
measuring men, a pen that can portray
their lives in a way to astonish them
selves and a brush 1 hat nature may
justly appreciate as it paints her true,
with no whit left out of all her beauty
and glory, which the artist eye can see
even in this desolate country.
The stories hear the impress of life—
if they are not true experiences of real
people we feel that they are—but the
strong, virile style Is what attracts, and
gives to the book the quality which
elicits respect.
The Scholar’s Daughter.
“The Scholar's Daughter.” by Beatrice
Harraden. is the rather unusual story of
a young girl, the daughter of a scholar,
brought up in a house where no wom
an is ever permitted. Her father, an
austere and self-contained man. has de
voted his life to the making of a dic
tionary. In an old sixteenth century
place, many miles from anywhere, he
has established himself and his house
hold of males—Christian, a Norwegian
ship's cook; Davy, formerly a coast
guardsman, and now house parlor maid;
and Tom, an old soldier, blind of one
eye; and three scholars, who for twelve
years have worked on the great lexicon
and not yet finished with “A.” These
"bookworms,” as Geraldine, the schol
ar's daughter*, calls them, have grown to
he so much a part of the seclusion in
which they live that one of them when
referring to tilings going on in the world
habitually uses the expression, “.outside
sources.”
The darling of this masculine abode is
the girl whom they have brought up
among them, and now at twenty lias Just
returned from a school to which her un
loving and uncompromising father sent
her in the furtherance of his plan for
making a scholar of her. With her
beauty and cleverness and her warm,
loving heart she brings life into the old
house, and stirs the musty students out
i|f their accustomed hum-drum. Tha
three of them worship her (in iiction
parlance) and even the coast guardsman
is happy to do her service, fetching her
scent bottles and piltows, and darning
her stockings with all the readiness and
adaptability of lady’s maid.
Tlie hero—or more truthfully speaking,
the handsome young man who happens
along to supply the cast of lover—is front
the Bush, an Australian squatter, come
bearing legacies to the Professor (the in
stigator of the dictionary) and his wife,
who for some reason is not in evidence,
nor has been for twenty years. Wheth
er dead or gone away, that is the ques
tion that puzzles the girl, and which
until now she has not dared ask her
father. The matter of the legacies
arouses her anew to learn what all her
life has been kept from her, but the ex
planation comes in the shape of a very
surprising and overwhelming climax to
apparently trivial and ordinary happen
ings. The Professor having with an in
heritance oorac at the same time into
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anotner name from that lie formerly
bore, has with the change of name and
residence become unrecognizable after
twenty sears to his divorced wife, who
conies to the neighborhood an actress of
note, and visits the interesting places in
the county as a relief from ennui, this
sixteenth century house with its oak
paneled library, among them. It is
through the charming daughter that site
obtains admittance into'a place where
women are never known and the girl
is as surprised as any there at the dis
coveries and revelations which msue.
Besides being very ina,..erent as a
piece of work, it is doubtful whether the
story could be said to have a good mor
al. Certainly a inoral tone is nowhere
in evidence, and if there is nothing dis
tinctly au contrarie. neither is there
anything to recommend—we had almost
said to redeem-a tale which has so lit
tle In it.
In Cure of Her Soul.
-Mr. F. J. Stinson (J. s. of Dale) had
near a dozen books to ms credit—or dis
credit-before he wrote "In Cure of Her
Soul,” his last which those reputable
•people, the Appletons, have brought out
in quite as good style as though it were
something different. Mr. Stimson being
so busy writing and reading hi s own
books, evidently has not had time to note
the scenes chosen of his confreres in fic
tion making; In selecting his characters
from tlie ranks of fashion and putting
them in New York society he fancies
he chooses a class not much written of.
And it were as well so, if his represen
tation be correct. A more uninviting
task he could hardly have set himself,
judging by the effect on the readers,
though the Impression Is gotten some
how that the author is. or would like to
have been, native to this sort of thing.
A curious commingling of pedantry and
the superficial, the froth and inanity of
a vain and empty personality makes the
long book rather difficult reading and
one lays it down with a mild sense of
wonder.
The story may almost he said to be
current—persons now living and people
recently dead being freely spoken of.
But which president does Austin Pinck
ney represent? And how can he he other
than himself, ceelng that he comes of tlie
famous South Carolina family and is to
all Intents and purposes a historical
character? If what is set down for true
is not true, then what an egregrlous
liberty to take with an honored name!
AVe confess an adjustment of apparent
contradictions has been eyond us.
Austin Pinckney marries Dorothy
Somers, a Philadelphia beauty, who
throws herself at his head rather than
be sacrificed to a simpleton for money.
"Our hero,” as Mr. Stimson calls him,
being taken somewhat by surprise, is not
so much in love as he finds afterwards
he can he, and very properly becomes
forthwith; the young beauty's sentiments
at tills period, it would appear, are
rather unformed; and unfortunate it is,
as developments discover to herself and
her devoted and little appreciated hus
band. Removing from Cambridge to New
York, Pinckney begins the practice of
law and his wife enters on the career of
a society woman, where she finds him
more and more unnecessary to her. A
Russian .Tew, Markoff, plays a conspicu
ous part in her life, and Pinckney finds
his ideal of womanhood in Mary Ravenal.
Thera ore numerate characters, both
bad and Indifferent, and one or two other
stories introduced incidentally, but the
main interest centers in Pinckney’s do
mestic and public life, arid finally his
tnomination for the presidency. Or w#< it
Haviland who received the nomination?
It is not quite clear, though as the book
closes with the next paragraph it is im
material.
By Wit of Woman.
"By Wit of Woman,” by Arthur W.
Marchmont. author of “A Courier of
Fortune.” “The Queen’s Advocate.” and
other stories, Is the account by herself
of a young adventuress hailing from
Jefferson City, Missouri, 'but when the
story opens established as governess in
the home of General von Erlanger in
Budapest. The young woman’s name
Is Chrtsta-bel von Oreschler, though her
uncle's death having recently left her
■his fortune and hts name with It, she
Is known now as Miss Gilmore. Entered
for a course of study at the university,
the ostensible occasion of her presence
here, is only this; in reality it is to
clear the name of her father, who, a
colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army,
in possession of title and estates, had
fallen under -political disfavor, and after
years of imprisonment died without be
ing able to get his wrongs righted. His
child, after her mother's death having
been sent to Che United States, has
grown up with her American, uncle, who
has reared her with all the liberty he
would have allowed a boy. In conse
quence, when at eighteen -she was sent
to New York to school she was much
spoiled and very conceited, and quite
reedy to be made the amusement of a
certain Count von OsKelen, who, of
course, sailed for his native land, leaving
her overcome with shame and confusion
at having so laid bare her silly heart.
Miss Gilmore, no longer the foolish,
headstrong little Christabel von Dreschler,
is now, when we meet her in Budapest,
a hardened and embittered woman, quite
capable of taking care of herself. Beauti
ful, rich, with three' servants brought
from America and faithful to do her
■bidding whatsoever, she conceals her
identity and purpose and begins the
work of clearing her father’s name by
entering the home of his former friend.
General von Erlanger, as governess to
his daughters. Seeing that her schemes
may be further promoted by association
with one Madame d’Artelle, a woman In
the secret employ of the French gov
ernment, she takes up her residence
with her, and meets again Count von
Ostelen, who is none other than the eldest
son of Duke Ladislas, leader of the great
patriotic movement, and as successor to
his father, the most conspicuous man
in his country.
The count, a A-ictim of drink and
opium, is iwanted out of the way by
his younger 'brother, Gustav, who schemes
to marry him to Madame d’Artelle, whose
husband still lives. She Is party to the
plan, but Miss Gilmore contrives to
tiiwart it, and in doing so is discovered
in her true identity, that of the daugh
ter of the now celebrated colonel, her
father, and liable to come under govern
ment disapproval and extermination—the
word will do as good as any, for >i
amounts to that.
For any who love a female detective
story the book will prove interesting,
'being full of excitement, intriffue, anil
^startling development. Frederick A.
Stokes Company, publishers. New York.
She—Don’t you get tired of this mod
ern life, with its heartburnings, its
longings, its cruel disappointments, l*s
unutterable Inadequacy?
He—Oh, ye?. But always Just about
that time some new girl comes along
Publication Notes.
Much interest has been aroused in
Miriam Michelson's forthcoming novel,
“Anthony overman." This book will have
a peculiar intereH in the fact that it is
a novel of the old San Francisco—the
city that has paeseil away. It is an en
tirely different field from Miss Michel
son's greatest success so far, “In the
Bishops Carriage.” it ueals with a
dreamer who fell In love with a woman
who is Ills antithesis. There is no lack
of action and Incident. Doubleday, Page
& Co. expect to bring out “Anthony
Overman" on August I. It will be
illustrated by John Cecil Clay.
Jules Simoneau, keeper of a quaint
little restaurant In Monterey, Cal., guards
as chief of Ills treasures a set of Robert
Do tils Stevenson’s woi ks. lie anil his fa
mous author were fast friends. Steven
son while In California having been a
constant patron of Simoneaus Bohe
mian resort. On the flyleaf of each book
is a typical inscription and autograph,
and some priceless letters written for the
most part in French ana xept in an iron
box.
The Rev. S. Baring-Gould. writing in
The Morning Leader, on the announce
ment published last week that he was
dead, says the matter has not been a
pleasant one to him, and he would have
preferred to let It pass unnoticed. Hosts
of obituary notices were sent to him.
but he has not read one of them and
does not intend to do so. AA'hen the error
was corrected, Mr. Baring-Gould received
an offer of £10 from a London paper
for a critique on the obituary notices.
This he declined. A benevolent society
suggested that lie should send a contribu
tion to its funds as a thank offering for
not 'being dead.
Doubleday, Page & Co. announce for
publication in September a new novel by
Mary Dillon entitled “The Leader." In
this new book Mrs. Dillon leaves the
field of historical romance for the more
vivid and intensely interesting drama of
political life of our own times.
Upton Sinclair is making a dramatiza
tion of ’’The Jungle.” It Will be pro
duced In Chicago. It is also being trans
lated into German, French, Italian, Yid
dish, Bohemian, Rus.-ian, Lithuanian Pol
ish and Dutch, Danish and Swedish.
One of the biggest literady surprises so
far tills year has been G. B. Lancaster's
novel, "The Spur.” Some of the best
American reviewers have acclaimed it as
a novel of real distinction. The mystery
of the identity of Lancaster remains as
keen as ever, the author declining to
emerge from the New Zealand retirement
which has held him or her.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are just hav
ing to print Professor Henry A. Beers'
noteworthy ’’English Romanticism in the
Eighteenth Century" for the fifth time.
In this connection it may be interesting
to note that this ’book has also been re
published in England.
Dr. Dougla s Hyde, the famous Celtic
scholar, In tlie course of a recent address
at the University of California, claimed
on the authority of eminent German and
Italian scholars, that “Ireland taught
Europe the art of rhyming.” He said
further: “The earliest recorded rhymes
In Europe are those in Latin, written by
Augustine. He composed them while
surrounded by a Celtic-speaking people In
the south of Gaul. In the year 750 A. D.
we find the Irish people making perfect
and elaborate rhymes. It was not done
in other countries for two centuries
later.”
The Funk & Wagnalls Company an
nounce that they have purchased the
well-known periodical, "Public Opinion,”
which on and after July 7 will be merged
with “The lLterary Digest.” "Public
Opinion” was founded in 1886—four years
prior to the birth of The Literary Di
gest—and it has enjoyed a wide popu
larity. The various newspaper directories
for the present year give its circulation
at from 45,000 to 80,000. It was original
ly published in Washington. D. C., but
for the last eight or ien years it has
■been published in New York. The Liter
ary Digest, though a younger publica
tion, has made rapid growth in its cir
culation, which, before the consolida
tion, exceeded 125,000.
Over the non-committal signature of
"Nicholas Worth” In the July Atlantic
appears the first installment of "The Au
tobiography of a Southerner since the
Civil War.” Though every hint of the,
author’s identity has evidently been
scrupulously suppressed. no one can
doubt that he writes with the authority
of first-hand experience. And it is a
wonderfully interesting story that has to
tell. Born in the heart of the great Cot
ton Belt a few years before the outbreak
of the war, he was left by the murder
of his father head of the house while
still a mere boy. He gives a picture of
his life at Graham’s,—an academy where
the sons of southern gentry, organized on
the basis of a strict military-social stand
ard, fought out their disputes, and be
tween times studied Latin and mathe
matics. Then followed two years at a
certain southern college, at that time a
hotbed of patriotism and political elo
quence. "It was as we had all said:
‘The South is whipped, degraded, despised.
But we love our land all the more for
its misfortunes; and we mean that it
shall not be degraded and despised for
ever.’ ”
H. G. Wei's, the English novelist and
author ot 'wnan the Sleeper wakes,” "An
ticipation,” ana other works of imagina
tive prophecy, has just completed a book
which will be of great interest to his
American readers, as it deals with his
Impressions of life and customs in Amer
ican communities. Mr. Wells has but
recently returned to England from his
visit to this country, where the material
for the volume was accumulated. Serial
rights have been secured by Harper’s
Weekly, and publication will begin with
the issue of July 14, under the title of
“The Future In America.” Vernon
Howe Bailey and E. V. Nadherny are
the artists selected to illustrate Mr.
Wells’ striking work.
Mr. George Middleton has been selected
by Miss. Lulu Glaser to make the dra
matization for her forthcoming produc
tion of “The House of a Thousand Can
dles.” Mr. M^cUetuii Is a young 'play
wright who scored his first success with
"The Cavalier,” in which Miss Marlowe
appeared. He has also written plays for
Miss Margaret Anglin and Miss Amelia
Bingham.
"Heroes of the Storm,” a collection of
true accounts of life-saving adventures
along the American coast, which was
published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
affords excellent opportunity for studying
the methods and mechanical devices used
in the United States life-saving stations
and recounts the heroism of the crews in
their humane work. The book has been
published with the idea that the pro
ceeds shall be used for the benefit of the
crews and of the life-saving stations and
their families. It affords interesting
reading for any one spending the summer
by the sea.
It is significant of the world-wide in
terest in Dante that arrangements have
been made for tlie translation into Japa
nese of Charles A. Dinsniore's two books,
“Aids to the Study of Dante” and “The
Teachings of Dante,” both published by
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Mr. Din-smore
has just left his home in Waterbury,
' Conn., for a summer's vacation in Eng
land.
Literary Driftwood.
The Jungle and Its Author.
"The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's novel of
Packingtown, which has stirred the whole
country, 'has made a record as a ‘'best
seller.” Although published late in Jan
uary with scarcely any advance sale, the
publishers had printed 85,000 copies uv
to July I. Five editions have been
brought out In England, six in Canada,
and two in Australia. It Is being trans
lated into half a dozen languages, and
Is running serially In as many countries.
No less remarkable is the career of its
young author. Six months ago Upton
Sinclair was known to a small circle of
readers and the socialist party In-the
United States. Today he is known wher
ever the English language is spoken. Hi*
sudden rise to fame Is most unprece
dented in the history of American fic
tion. At present he is living on his farm,
5 miles north of Princeton, N. J., rest
ing up after the arduous labors of a truly
significant campaign.
The March of Progress.
(From Life )
The human race, with toil and pain
And pride, accomplishes a lot—
But—will some gifted sage explain
Exactly what?
We do, undoubtedly, progress—
’Tis marvelous, one can’t deny—
Still—is it jxisslble to guess
Whither? Or why?
We learn new tricks from day to day;
Of course, the theory is correct
That we improve—but who shall say
In what res>pect?
We were, no doubt, a sight to grieve
The gods; no doubt we're nicer now—
But—can the gods themselves perceive
Precisely how?
All Sung.
What shall I sing when ail is sung.
And every tale Is told.
And in the world is nothing young
That was not long since told?
Why should I fret unwilling ears
With old things sung anew,
While voices from the old dead years
Still go on singing, too?
A dead man singing of his maid
Makes all my rhymes in vain,
Y'et his poor lips must fade and fade,
And mine shall kiss again.
Why should I strive through weary
moons
To make my music true?
Only the dead men know the tunes
The live world dances to.
—Richard La Gallienne.
Swinburne as Dramatist.
In connection with the recent publica
tion of the complete edition of Swin
burne’s Dramatic Works (Harpers), which
has aroused a good deal of discussion
among literary wiseacres as to the poet’s
position as dramatist, it is interesting
to note that his ‘‘Atalanta in Calydon”
was lately given at the Scala theater, in
Ijondon, with signal success. Even the
conservative "Atheneum” is ’’surprised at
the strong dramatic quality it shows
throughout, particularly at the effect of
the deeply tragic scene at the end, which
moves the emotions as few things, mod
ern or ancient, can do.” This success
is the more gratifying when one consid
ers the difficulties attending the stage
performance of the poem.
DOSTOR’S OATH YEARS AGO.
(From The Augusta Chronicle.)
Secretary Goodrich, of the board of
health, has recently received a copy of
the oath that a physician had to take
in the olden days, and he has it ex
hibited in the office of the board of
■health. The oath Is a very strict one,
and if a physician abided by it he had
to be a perfect gentleman in every re
spect.
There is no physician in Augusta now
who had to take this oath, as it has
been abandoned for more than seventy-
five years. The oath is as follows:
”1 swear by Apollo, the physician, and
Aesculapius and Health and Allheal and
all the gods and goddesses that accord
ing to my ability and judgment:
”1 will keep this oath, this stipulation
to reckon him who taught me this art
equally dear to me as my parents, to
share my substance with him and re
lieve his necessities if required, to look
upon his offerings in the same footing as
my own brothers and to teach them
this art, if they wish to learn it.
“Without fee or stipulation either by
precept, lecture and every other mode of
instruction, I will impart a knowledge
of tlie art to my own son and those of
my teachers anid to disciples bound by a
stipulation and oath.
“According to the law of medicine, but
to none others will I follow the system
of regimen which according to my abil
ity and judgment I consider.
“For the benefit of my patients and
abstain from whatever is deleterious and
mischievous. I will give no deadly medi
cine to any one if asked not to suggest
any such counsel.
“With purity and holiness I will pass
my life and practice my art. I will not
cut persons laboring under the stone but
will leave this to be done by men who
are practitioners of this work. Into
whatever houses I enter I will go into
them for the benefit of the sick and
will abstain from every voluntary mis
chief and corruption.
“Anil further from the seduction of .fe
males or males of fresh men and slaves,
whatever in connection with my profes
sional practice or not In connection with
it I see or hear in life of men which
ought not to be spoken of abroad I
will not divulge as reckoning that all
such should be kept secret. While I
continue to keep this oath unviolated
mav it be granted to me to enjoy life
anii the practice of the art respected by
all men In all times.
“But should I trespass and violate this
oath may the reverse be my lot.”
FOLLOWED BY A LION.
(From The Youth's Companion.)
To stroll through an African Jungle
with a gun loaded only In one barrel and
with dusk approaching seems to invite
adventure, and so It did in the case of
William Cotton Oswell, the friend of Liv
ingstone. Oswell started out from his
camp one evening. Area his one shot at
a quagga, which he wounded, and then
followed its tracks, marked the place
where it fell, and then turned his steps.
as he thought toward the wagons. In
his biography the incident is described
in his own words:
It was not until I had wandered care
lessly hither and thitlmr for half an
hour, feeiir.g sure that it was only the
one particular bush in front of me which
hid the wagons, that I very unwillingly
owned to myself that I was Gritting
without hearings in this bushy sea.
Twilight in the tropics is verj short.
Just before tlie sun .ft I followed a
game track which I knew would lead
to water. After a good draught I began
collecting firewood, but the night iVosod
In so rapidly that a bare hour’s supply
was all my store.
Partly to save fuel, partly in the hope
that as night crept on signals would be
made from the wagons. I climbed a tree,
and had not been long perched before I
heard, far off. the boom of guns.
Alarmed by my absence, my compan
ions suspected the cause and were in
viting my return; but it required a very
pressing invitation indeed to induce a
man to walk through two miles cf an
African wood on a dark night.
It grew bitterly cold. 1 determined to
come down and light my fire. I had
reached the lowest bough of my tree and
placed my hand beside my feet before
Jumping off, when from the bush imme
diately under me a deep note and the
sound of a heavy body slipping through
the thorny scrub told me that a lion
was passing. Without the warning, in
another half second 1 should have alight
ed on his hack. 'I very quickly put two
or three yards more between the soles
of my feet and the ground.
I could not longer endure my cramped
position in the scraggy tree, and felt I
must get down. Waiting until the moon
was about one tree high, I came down
and dived about into the hush. I strug
gled on for an hour I should think, wnen
four or five muskets fired together within
fifty yards told me I was home again.
I hope I was thankful then; I know T
am now. Two of my Hottentot servants
and 4t batch of Kafirs had come to meet
me and escorted Vne to the fire in ’tri
umph. As I held my naif thawed hands
over it the roar of a disappointed lion
rang through the camp.
‘Tie has missed you, Tiaga. hv a little
this time.” said my black friends. “Let
him go back to his game.”
WORK 0'F THE LUNGS.
(From The Literary Digest.)
The Importance of proper respiration
during sleep is dwelt upon by Dr. J. H.
Kellogg in an article on “Unconscious
Respiration,” contributed to Good Health.
Dr. Kellogg notes that during sleeping
hours the breathing movements are more
superficial and slower than when one is
awake and active. The lungs influence
the activity of every organ and every cell
in the body, and consequently lessened
breathing during sleep slows down every
function. He goes on:
“It Is necessary that activity should be
lessened in order that sleep and rest may
be secured, but the work of the liver,
kidneys and the repairing work of the
living cells goes on during sleep, and
this requires oxygen. Hence the body
should be supplied with an abundance of
•fresh air during sleep by proper ventila
tion of the sleeping rooms. The lassitude
experienced on rising in the morning after
sleeping in a close, overheated room is
evidence of the injury resulting from such
practice. The temperature of the sleeping
room should never be above 60 degrees
Fahrenheit when a higher temperature
can be avoided, and a lower temperature
will be found beneficial. Sleeping in cool
air, provided the body is kept warm, is
far more refreshing, invigorating and
energizing than in warm atmosphere.
Cold air has a tonic effect upon the tis
sues which is highly beneficial.”
The amount of air taken in during sleep
may be remarkably increased. Dr. Kel
logg goes on to say, by developing the
vital capacity and the activity of the
lungs through suitable exercise. He says:
“An eminent French physiologist found
that the amount of air taken Into the
lungs during sleep was doubled in stu
dents whose general breathing capacity
had been increased by exercise. Exercise
in a gymnasium, chopping and sawing
wood, digging, laundry work, scrubbing,
ruijning of errands, all sorts of active
house work and farm work-are excellent
means of developing the chest. Any ex
ercise which accelerates the breathing,
compelling deep, full breathing, is valu
able as a means for developing the lung
capacity.
"Languor, nervousness and mental
cloudiness are driven away by the in
creased ventilation of the body secured
by deep breathing. The pure oxygen
taken in burns up the rubbish which ob
structs the brain and the tissues, while
the deep-breathing movements accelerate
the circulation, drawing the impure blood
toward the chest for purification, and so
cleansing the tissues of the paralyzing
poisons which are sure to accumulate in
them unless constantly removed by vig
orous movement of the blood and ener
getic breathing. The heightened color of
cheeks, the increased luster of eye and
general buoyancy of feeling which fol
low a brisk walk on a frosty morning
are evidences of the benefits that are to
be derived from taking into the body an
Increased supply of oxygen through activo
breathing.
“While the lungs are to some extent
subject to voluntary control, their action
is, like that of the heart, automatic. Dur
ing sleep, as well as during waking hours,
their movements are carried on with
rythmical regularity, except when neces
sarily interrupted by speech, and with
out any conscious or voluniftry effort.”
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