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Show HOW TO BREATHE. The Danger of Breathing Through the , Mouth. Every cold morning if you watch ten different men you will find that almost every; one has his own method of I breathing in cold air, says the New . York-Journal. . One man refrains from breathing I through his nose at all and breathes j through his mouth, warming the air before he takes 1t into his lungs, and ' that is a very bad plan. Another man ! will hold a handkerchief over his nose , and mouth and feel happy because he is taking in about one-quarter of the I oxygen he needs. A third man dashes i out of his house, going from a very hot room into the freezing air and filling , his lungs to their fullest capacity. He is even more foolish than the others, as he runs the risk of a sudden and serious se-rious chill through contraction of the i lung cells. j Each man, of course, must regulate for himself the amount of cold air which he can safely take into his lungs. No man shou'd ever breathe through his mouth under any circumstances. circum-stances. The nose is wonderfully adapted to the breathing work which it has to do. It separates the air from its impurities, dust strad so on, and can at will regulate the supply admitted to the lungs. If you leave a hot room -and go into the cold air. you can inhale little by little through the nostrils until you no longer feel any extreme coldness. At the end of five minutes the lungs will have adjusted themselves to the lower temperature, and you can breathe as comfortably and as deeply as in warm weather. Experiment with this on the next very cold day, and don't breathe through your mouth, anyhow. Breathing Breath-ing through the mouth brings all sorts of germs directly into contact with the unprotected mucous membrane, and it is largely responsible for colds, sore throat and consumption. |