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them 1825 to '40. In this he pointed out that it is exceed- 

 ingly injurious to breathe through your mouth; that, indeed, 

 many persons injured their lungs by taking in air that 

 was not strained and warmed first through the nose, and 

 in many cases laid the foundation of diseases which killed 

 them. 



don't turn out your toes much 



When you see a man whose toes are excessively turned 

 out, you may know he was born and brought up on side- 

 walks. He is a poor walker and will not hold out on an 

 all day-tramp. 



The mountaineer and the Indian scout always keep their 

 feet nearly straight. It is easier on the feet and it lengthens 

 the stride; makes, in short, a better traveler. A glance 

 at his tracks will tell you how a person walks. 



TOBACCO 



No Indian was allowed to use tobacco until a proven 

 warrior. It was injurious to the young they said, but 

 in the grown man if used only as a burnt sacrifice it helped 

 in prayer and meditation. 



Some of the finest Indians, Spotted-tail for example, 

 never smoked as a habit. 



In the New York Literary Digest for December 30, 

 191 1, there appeared the following important article: 



INJURIOUSNESS OF TOBACCO 



The opinion that tobacco is injurious to the young and 

 apparently harmless to adults, quoted in these pages recently 

 from American Medicine, is adjudged by the editor of Good 

 Health (Battle Creek, Mich., December) to be one of those half- 

 truths which Tennyson tells us are "ever the blackest lies." 



