Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-21 | Page 4 | Poison Fumes

deith come in a matter of minutes. Oose your mouth, pinch your nostrils tirhtly, ud ret the Mea emphatically what . happens when your air supply Is shut off? Few of us would knowinrly eat talned food or drink impure water. We take great pains and go to considerable expense to .insure the purity of food and water. But when It comes to the equally or even more Important life need, air, most of us are careless, nejll-Kent. nejll-Kent. . Impure air lessens our prwer$ of le-sisting le-sisting disease. The air In the average city is Impure, containing disease germs and fragments frag-ments of filth, glass, rubber tires and similar destroyers of the delicate lung thsuesj Most deadly of all is the poison gas generated by the millions of autos, a gas so deadly that it kills in a few minutes if a man starts his auto engine in a garage with the doors shut. Air in the natural state Is pure. Man adds the impurities, most of them. When our lungs become weak, the doctor sends us to the pure air of the mountains. Out therj is fighting chance for life, for recovery f:om the impure air of civilization. Now, impure air of city life doe:n'! start all of us into a decline, by any means. But unquestionably ' we'd all havrt better health if we could do ' our breathing In the country. The nejet best Vet t? to- gerarhiuch fres" air as possible, especially by taking outdoor walks, breathing deeply, sleeping with windows win-dows open. The air outdoors may be Impure, but it is purer than stale air that has been breathed over and over inside the house and thereby become loaded with poisons cast off by people's lungs. Summer is fresh air season. sea-son. Take dozen long, deep breaths whenever when-ever you think of it. z ? X Poison Fume Z YE LIVE -in an ocean of air,, the same as : - W; fish live in an ocean of water. In the H v air ocean we are, to make a jovial compari- r son,- like lobsters crawlinjj alotir the bottom - of the water ocean. Birds flit through the ;; air like fish through the water. .The air we 1 . breathe is more vital in many ways than aiter we drink or food we eat. , You can jo rr" weeks without food, days without water, be- - fore djinj..' But shut off your air supply and