1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



657 



right along- this Hue of pure air, and uioi-e 

 of it. Mrs. Root ( lilie Mrs. Terry) is right 

 with me in the matter. It isn't rest we 

 need, for, in fact, it is often exercise that is 

 wanted; but with either rest or exercise, 

 pure air is alwa3's wanted, and wanted in 

 abundance. Our cabin is on a hill, or, 

 rather, in a notch between two hills, and I 

 at first claimed it commanded all the breeze 

 that could ever be needed. Mrs. Root did 

 not agree. At her request a high point just 

 back of the cottage was cleared off except 

 a few shade trees, and under these small 

 maples a hammock was hung. This point 

 commands a beautiful view of Grand Trav- 

 erse Bay (Lake Michigan beyond), and dur- 

 ing the middle of every hot summer day 

 there is almost sure to be a breeze from the 

 great northern lakes. There have been 

 only a very few days this summer when I 

 could take my nap there, without blanket 

 or overcoat, or both of them. 



\\'ell, this point is our "Sanitarium."' 

 When I have my "used-up" spells the ham- 

 mock always cures. A sleep is better; but 

 lying still twenty or thirty minutes, with 

 m}' face toward the breeze, often does almost 

 as well. The air of this locality is, no 

 doubt, equal to almost any in the world;* 

 but the summit of the ///// is a wonderful 

 factor. Mrs. Root insists that our perma- 

 nent dwelling shall be up there when we 

 build one. I urge it will be much labor to 

 go up and down with everj'^ thing, and that 

 the "breeze" in winter and early spring 

 will be called by another name; but she de- 

 clares, every time, there is where she wants 

 to live. 



My friend, if there is a hill or even an 

 elevation on your premises, thank God for 

 it and try Mrs. Root's "tonic." Insanity 

 is on the increase, the doctors tell us, and 

 one form of it is becomings alarming. They 

 call it "narco" insanity. It is caused by 

 the craze for patent medicines; and these 

 meilicines sell because the}' contain narcot- 

 ics. Just contrast the idea — taking drugs 

 (at a dollar a bottle) when pure air costs 

 nothing, and is a thoitsa7id times better 

 every way! 



If you haven't an elevation of land on 

 j-our premises, fix a summer-house on the 

 roof of your home, or a place to swing a 

 hammock in hot weather. Come to think of 

 it. ih s would be onl}' going back to Bible 

 tin es — going up on the roof to escape the 

 heat and to get a breeze of pure air. In 

 many locations it will pay, I am sure, to go 

 away up. The makers of windmills, in 

 their circulars, are very emphatic about 

 the importance of having the mill clear 

 above surroundings. Push it several feet 

 above trees and every thing else. Well, 



* Mrs. Root had a pretty piece of plated ware she 

 said she should discard because it was so much work 

 to keep it bright. No matter how well it was scoured, 

 in a lew days dark spots came on it. 'I his was in 

 Ohio. Last spring she brought it up here, and it has 

 kept bright and clean all summer long. Here in the 

 wo ds there are no locomotives or coal smoke from 

 anj' .source to load the air with sulphurous fumes, and, 

 as a consequence, silver keeps bright and untarnished. 



what is good for windmills is good for peo- 

 ple. Get aw^ly from the impure lower 

 world, up into God's pure and moving 

 breezes. 



Terr}' tells us how he has been troubled 

 in traveling to get the windows open wide 

 in his sleeping-rooms in hotels. Why, I 

 have had them try to give me a bed in rooms 

 without any window at all; but I never ac- 

 cepted such a room except once. I to d you 

 about being so sick in Florida I feared I 

 should die; well, it was the nig^ht after I 

 was obliged to sleep in a small room with 

 three others who wouldn't have a window 

 open. As a compromise they agreed to let 

 me open the one door, and this let in air 

 from the room below where a crowd were 

 smoking, swearing, and playing cards, 

 nearly all night. Contrast this with our 

 hammock under the little maple-trees on the 

 hill. 



But I want to emphasize a point that I 

 can not remember even Terry has made; 

 and it is, to move your bed away from the 

 wall, wherever you are. Give the bad air 

 that goes out of your nostrils every facility 

 to get so far away there is little chance of 

 any part of it being taken back again into 

 the lungs. Most of us know the result of 

 being in a crowded audience with the win- 

 dows and doors closed. For years it has 

 been very hard for me to endure this. It 

 gives me the nightmare in broad daylight. 

 This has been talked about, so I won't take 

 it up; but we who are getting old or feeble, 

 or both, should study to avoid breathing the 

 same air over. One g-reat reason why rid- 

 ing in a buggy (or riding a wheel, if you 

 choose) is sj health-giving is, I think, be- 

 cause the bad air is gone "to the winds" 

 the instant it leaves our bodies. The won- 

 derful "second wind," so much has been 

 said about in riding a wheel, is, in my 

 opinion, caused (at least largely) by taking 

 such unusual quantities of fresh pure air 

 into the lungs. It makes me feel like a 

 "living soul," as in our text, just to think 

 of it. It is God's breath that gives this 

 wonderful thrill of new life, strength, and 

 vigor. 



Now let us go back to the bedroom. Get 

 all the windows and doors open. Never 

 mind burglars. They are nothing to be 

 compared to consumption and kindred dis- 

 eases. When I made a flying trip to Ohio 

 the 4th of July, Mrs. Root slept alone in 

 our cabin in the woods, with the door wide 

 open. It was about the warmest night of 

 the season, and this is a healthy locality in 

 morals as well as in good air. As yet there 

 are no trainps in this region, and such ter- 

 rible crimes as are chronicled in Ohio are 

 unknown here. But let us go back to that 

 bed in the average bedroom. 



Get all the doors and windows open wide 

 (of course, I am talking about, say, July 

 and August weather). Get the head of the 

 bed near the window where the air is com- 

 ing in, then arrange your pillow so you can 

 lie in such a manner as to send the air from 

 your lungs over the side of the bed down to 



