OCR Text |
Show Suffocation and "Stuffocatlon." Thousands of people, especially women and children, dlo annuallj from suffocation in ill-ventilatec homes. Probably a still larger num ber dlo from what has been aptlj called "stuffocatlon," , an appropriate namo for designating tho gormandlz Ing in which multitudes of otherwise intelligent men nnd women indulge nt ccrtnln periods of the year In con nectlon with club meetings, sociables church fairs and various "socletj events." Tho functions of tho body may be very quickly perverted by inhaling ail laden with gorms. With equal readl ness health may be ruined and bodilj vigor dissipated by using tho body ai a sort of catch-all into which sub stances of all sorts, Irrespective ol their valuo as body-building materia or their possible infiuenco as body-do Btroylng agencies, aro droppod aftol tbo palato has dono with thorn. With suffocation and "stuffocatlon' In operation nt ono and tho snmt tlmo, nnd In tho same individual, the march toward tho comotory is rapid Notwithstanding, these tlestructlv modes of llfo aro becoming so com mon that ono Is constantly romlndee of tho Hibernian witticism onco ut terod by .Horaco Mann, who declare that "If somo people lived for a montl as othor peoplo do, thoy would b dead in a fortnight." |