Excerpt from The Art of Right Living

The lungs require no less than 2,000 gallons of air to meet the body's needs every twenty-four hours. Perhaps, during that time, we may drink 3 pints of water and eat from 2 to 4 lb. of food. About the cleanliness of this food and water we think a good deal; about the quality of this enormous volume of air we scarcely think at all. So we become

"Poorly," Anaemic, Dyspeptic, Or Peevish;

and suffer from frequent colds, the cause of which we seek in every direction but the right one. Now, listen to the words of a physician of world-wide renown. Professor Leonard Hill, of the London University, on the subject of "Stuffy Rooms": "The changing play of wind, of light, of cold," he says, "stimulate the activity and health of mind and body. Cold is not comfortable, neither is hunger; therefore we are led to ascribe many of our ills to exposure and seek to make ourselves strong by what is termed good living. I maintain that the bracing effect of cold is of supreme importance to health and happiness; that we become soft and flabby and less resistant to the attacks of infecting bacteria in the winter, not because of the cold, but because of our excessive precautions to preserve ourselves from cold. The prime cause of 'cold' or 'chill' is not really exposure to cold, but to the overheated and confined air of rooms and meeting-places."

There is nothing more fallacious, continues Professor Hill, than the supposition that overcoddling indoors promotes health. All our efforts should be directed, he says, towards preventing the overheating of our houses (60° to 65° Fahr. is the correct temperature), and to keeping the air in motion.

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