Garland Globe | 1906-05-07 | Page 9 | No Sentiment in Sighing

NO SENTIMENT IN SIGHING Blmply Caused by Desire for More Brenth, Says a Physician. Phy-sician. The sigh, which from tlmo Immemorial Imme-morial and by all tho poets whocvat sung has been regarded as a mattet of sentiment and connected with the emotions, Is declared by physicians to be as purely n physical phenomenon as Is tho sneeze or cough. A well-known well-known doctor of this city, speaking of this tho other day, explained that the sigh Is nature's method of making one tako n deep breath. When the lungs havo been getting Insufficient air a sigh is the means by which they aro replenished, or when the air has been Impure the sigh which ono often takes in stepping out Into the open air Is from the same cause. The doctor admitted that people sometimes sigh from sorrow or other mental ill, but maintained that this Is partly because It has been accepted as the expression of grief through ages as long as kissing and handshaking handshak-ing havo been accepted as signs ol affection or friendship. Another reason rea-son why a sigh follows a sorrowful thought Is that such thoughts are often concentrated and Intense enough to cause Insufficient breathing When the lungs suffer for n certain time from this insufficiency, tho sigh follows. Sighs aro often caused, too, says tho samo authority, by certain sorts of Indigestion.