128 THE WONDERFUL HOUSE THAT JACK HAS 



While sleeping, all can have the air as nearly like 

 the out-of-door atmosphere as open windows can make 

 it. We cannot have such air during daytime in cold 

 weather, because artificial heat must keep the tempera- 

 ture warm enough for comfortable work while sitting. 

 At night, however, with the bedclothes to keep us 

 warm, the precious privilege of breathing the cool 

 bracing air from outside may be ours. 



Persons afflicted with the dread " White Plague/' 

 consumption, who have gone to mountain resorts to 

 recover health, have found that the most important 

 factors in their treatment have been abundance of pure 

 air and nourishing food. When too weak to do much 

 walking, such patients sit out-of-doors all day, pro- 

 tected from storms by verandas. This practice is 

 followed in cold weather as well as in summer, fur 

 coats, steamer rugs, and hot soapstones being used to 

 help them keep warm without exercise. At night 

 the windows are left open, summer and winter, for 

 plentiful bed clothing and, when necessary, a hot- 

 water bag at the feet, keep the patient warm. 



Occasionally patients reach such resorts so weak 

 that they have to be carried from their rooms to the 

 veranda. Nevertheless, they soon become gradually 

 accustomed to the out-of-door treatment and thrive 

 on it. The lives of hundreds of people afflicted with 

 this terrible disease have been saved in such resorts 

 by the use of abundant pure air and nutritious food. 

 Hundreds of others who have been unable to remain 



