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.
Chapter 14. Theaters
The ideal of China is sincerity but an actor is a pretender.
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