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STRENGTIT AND HEALTH

Tlie ordinary breatliing of tlić average man is abont tweuty times a minutę, and even tbe most ignorant reeognize tbe fact that upon pure air depends Jifc and licalth.

A man living in the open woods or fields; a hunter or any one who spends most of his time in the wilds, is very susecptihle to any air that is not pure. The air of an ordinary room, if not good, will eause thein to feel ill, and respiration becomes difficult.

But the senses of the dwellers in cities, and the workers in shops and faetories, ha-ve beeome hlunted. They have become so used to the ritiated air they are compelled to breathe that they fail to notice its depress-ing effeets. Tlieir lungs have become adapted to the ehanged eouditions, hut are not able to keep up the strain during the allotted term of life. ITencc consumption and othcr illnesses of like eharaeter, to* gether with a deereased oapacity and corre-sponding loss of endurance.

The a rera go person is rery sensitire eon-