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Show Sudden Change of Air. The tenants of an unventilated cabin may contrive to resist the atmospherio poisons of their hovel as long as they pass their days in steady indoor occupations. occupa-tions. The female members of the family may enjoy that immunity for weeks, but the first mild day will tempt tlieir male relatives to take a hunting trip to the next mountain range, where their lungs open all their safety valves to drink in the largest possible draughts of the grateful, grate-ful, pure air. In that unprepared condition condi-tion of their respiratory organs the hunters hunt-ers at night re-enter their air poisoned den, and the next morning are hardly able to speak for hoarseness and headache. head-ache. If they had passed the night in the mountains or in an 9pen shed, after the fashion of the Canadian lumbermen, they would feel as hale as hill cattle; but the sudden change from Olympus to Hades proved too much for the resisting power of their organism. Ladies' Home Journal. |