PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Incubators of 

 Disease Germs. 



Ailments Pecu- 

 liar to Winter. 



Developing the 

 Lungs. 



In unventilated rooms disease germs breed and 

 multiply. In unventilated rooms the blood of 

 sleeping persons becomes sluggish through poor 

 oxygenation, resulting in torpid liver and imper- 

 fect secretions. In overheated rooms the organ- 

 ism becomes accustomed to high temperature, so 

 that atmospheric changes render the person liable 

 to colds and congestions which pave the way for 

 all the bacterial diseases. 



The winter season is as normal as the summer ; 

 therefore, if sickness is more prevalent then, it is 

 because people do not live as nearly in accord with 

 nature's laws. When we learn to keep our houses 

 thrown open as fully in winter as in summer, to 

 build more fire yet keep our homes, shops, fac- 

 tories, stores, offices, cars, halls, theaters and 

 churches all thoroughly ventilated, so that the 

 air is as pure inside as it is out, then, and not until 

 then, will it be possible to prevent la-grippe, colds, 

 coughs, sore throats, catarrh, pleurisy, quick con- 

 sumption, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, and 

 the list of ailments peculiar to winter and spring. 



Prospective parents should not only be very 

 particular about having an abundance of fresh 

 air, but should give special attention to develop- 

 ing the powers of respiration. Unless the lungs 

 are very strong and the chest expansion fully three 

 and a half inches, the following exercise should 

 be taken two or more times each day : ( i ) have 

 the clothing loose enough to give perfectly free 

 action to the chest. Stand erect, throw the 

 shoulders back, fill the chest as full as possible 

 without straining, being careful to breathe 

 through the nostrils only. Place a small tube 



