| Show 1 I tt xa syndie SIMPIE nier dier runk PURE arld alle 3 WE saw it stated lately tei tel tha inen and women who dw dwell ellla in crowded towns and work and sleep all their lives in close rooms who r continually breathe air contaminated with sith the waste of their bodies go down to their graves seventeen years earlier than the men and women who dwell in the country and work in the field fieldsend sand breathe the fresh air there is wit without with hout kout out doubt considerable truth in the statement tue the so called civilized method of living is no cob so conducive to good health and long life in many respects as that which prevails among menina state of chis has been proved to a demonstration in the history of the settlement othis of this city though the early settlers bad been expose exposed d about two years andy and some gome instances for a longer period to many hardships and apol privations having to live almost constantly in the open airlie airl air airi the he health of the people for the first few years after the settlement of this valley valey was wa better betten than it has been since with the construction of fine buildt buildings the change from plain and coarse fare to the so called improved improve ol diet which wealth brings and the increase of the comforts of life ilfe has come cornea a decline in the health of the tho people for the fir first st two years ears of our residence here we ate bres brez bread made from unbolted flour we lived and slept siept in the open air in tents and wagons or at best in log houses which were more accessible to the free breath of heaven than our present closely plastered and almost airtight buildings and sickness was almost unknown inexperienced people brought up in luxury would probably shudder at the bare thought of enduring the privations and exposures which the early settlers of this city passed through without a murmur they would be likely to think that they could not live through gli them but if they were brought into these circumstances as the first settlers of utah were and for the same causes and were animated by the same hopes they would find themselves possessed of the necessary fortitude to pass through them and enjoy themselves we do not think that our people were ever more happy than they were during those years they were cheerful and buoyant in spirit and they had robust health without which life can not beeba be enjoyed oyed we have every reason to be happy appy now and we are a cheerful con contented anted people but if we were to maintain our simple habits of former years in eating drinking sleeping ac we might as a people enjoy a higher average of health than we do but ladies who thought the unbolted flour of former days most excellent eating now recoil at the thought of such coarse stuff crossing g their delicate lips or entering their fastidious stomachs the flour they eat must be ground affine as nine fine as french burrs timm can make it and then be passed through a bolting cloth of the finest texture even sensible men who know better betten what is healthful for themselves and families and who cannot have for gotton the good effects of simple diet chich which they experienced in their own persons will turn up their noses at the idea of eating anything in the shape of flour that has not pas sed a no 11 bolting clotel it was vas no hardship for ladies in the first years of our settlement here to walk miles and take other heavy exercise to asleep in the open air or in a tent or octagon through which the breezes passed freely and never complain of fatigue eatch catch catch cold or experience any inconvenience from the labor or exposure bub sut now how is it we know ladies who are yet comparatively young who passed through the scenes of which we sneak speak who immure themselves in their houses are arcely scarcely ec ever in the open air and who would feel it a great hardship to have to walk a mile they are so sensitive chaa thai door or window cannot be opened in broom where they are without their taking cold it would not of course be advisable now to fall back to our tents wagons and primitive style of living that nhat is not necessary we do not wish to see our people compelled to do this but we can conform in our diet to that which we know to be productive of health we can open our windows and doors take more exercise in the open air and more thoroughly ventilate than we do there does not exist the 0 c c ia J U fc sligh slightest isten tes necessity ee c nili nill for eople people to poison themselves then and families by breathing foul oui f air w when hen pure air is so plentiful for the latter costs nothing when this city was laid out the lots were surveyed sufficiently large to give ample room to every resident for dwelling houses out houses and all the conveniences needed for living without being crowded or being compelled to live close together thorough ventilation was provided for in the size of the lota iota and the width of the streets but the original design has in many instances been departed from men have sold portions of their lots until in some parts of the city the houses are entirely too close for convenience or comfort we regret to see this it does not mot add to the beauty of the city there is no feces necessity y fora man to coop up himself a and na f family ily liy upon a fow few rods of ground when unoccupied land is so plentiful all around these subjects deserve attention attention |
