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pends upon waste and renewal. He who 

 labors with the brain wastes vitality with- 

 out stint; he sows with the sack; and he 

 must renew his fund of energy just as 

 generously and frequently as he gives it 

 out. This he cannot do in a boreal cli- 

 mate. Bitter cold weather is mightily 

 stimulating to him who habitually lives out 

 in it; but the desk-man, the sedentary 

 artist, must work in a warm air. During 

 our Northern winter our libraries and stu- 

 dios are necessarily superheated ; therefore, 

 when we go forth from their atmosphere 

 directly into air forty degrees below freez- 

 ing temperature, the change is too sudden 

 and extreme for recreational effect. Nor 

 can any degree of precaution reduce the 

 risk to the line of safety. Nature has not 

 built us for such violent strains upon our 

 most delicate organs — the eyes, ears, nose, 

 throat, bronchial tubes, and lungs. Not 

 only does the atrocious cold immediately 

 affect these organs when suddenly ap- 

 plied to them while they are attempered 

 to suit a furnace-heated atmosphere, but 

 it paralyzes every pore of the skin, and 

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