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Show The Body as a Stove. 'B Tou can pile tons and tons of coal t into a stove during the winter, hut If H you do not open up the drafts and ij. provide some fresh air laden with fl oxygen the fire will not bum and no 1 Vj benefit will be derived from the fuel. If Just a little air is allowed to en- VAVJ ter, the fire may smoulder and con- H sumo the coal, but the family will wj not derho much bcneilt In this way the body is like a stove. You may stuff it with fuel (food), but if VAVJ you do not provide fresh air half tho benefit Is wasted. IBHJ The fresh air schools that have wJ been established in several of the larger cities are a striking illustra- I tlon of this. Weak, puny children BAVJ that never could survive a term spent in an ordinary schoolroom be-gin be-gin to gain almost Immediately after entering the out-of-doors schools. ' In these schools the children aro H practically out of doors all day, be- j ing protected only from the storms 1 and severe winds. They wear "varm H v 1 aps all the tlin cvn while study- ing at their ."eats At frequent Intervals In-tervals they play games or have other licht exercises. In some schools hot soup Is served one during dur-ing each session, far it has been found that many of these undovel- I oped children do not eat the proper j food at home. In some of the modern hospitals I there are out-of-door living rooms, k or sun parlors, for the use of those r patients who are able to be moved ' about. It Is a common occurrence I to see babies sleeping peacefully in some sheltered nook of the porch ( even on the coldest of winter days. 1 Not only is 1t a fact that these ha- " I bles do not take cold from this f S treatment, but they thrive wonder- H fully and begin to take on flesh. I All this tends to prove what edu- Ij calors are trying so hard to Impress upon the public that people, as a rule, would be much healthier and j happier If they lived In the open alx the greater part of the time. ' |