A PLEA FOR MORE AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1927, Page 3

A PLEA FOR MORE AIR

“It has been observed to women that the more they are asked to pay lor a tiling the more they value it, and that a Ital. priced at lour guineas will he far more coveted than the same hat priced at one guinea. Standards of value are not always easy to arrive at, and I have no doubt that, broadly speaking, tin* accusation is true. Conversely. we are apt to value not at all some of our most precious possessions bc( ause they cost us nothing. To one who. like myself, spends most of her time in the country' breathing God’s fresh air, it is almost tragic to behold tiic contempt in which this priceless gift is held by so many dwellers in our towns, and even, alas, in our villages. For the living rooms in which the windows remain hermetically sealed the whole year round are still far too numerous from one end of the country to the other. But it is not only the poor and ignorant who err in this manner. The health-giving qualities of sunlight and air are only too often forgotten by those who ought to know better and who, if one could buy air at the price paid for a health trip to the Riviera or a sea voyage to Madeira, woufiT purchase their air by the barrel and invite their friends to partake of its novel health-giving qualities in specially constructed airing rooms.—Muriel Bowden, in “ The Empire Review.”