Ocean Air for Health.

Manawatu Herald, 30 August 1898, Page 2

Ocean Air for Health.

(From the Sanil»r tan.) The special advantages of an ocean atmosphere are— 1. Its entire freedom from the dust common to domestic conditions —particles of tissue waste of all sorts hair, straw, feathers, cobwebs, insect-*, dried sputa, &e ; from trafiSe dust • the wear of travel and friction ; from nil insoluble and irritating grit willed from paved streets, houses wails, dusty roads, or sandy plains. It 13 air, in short, that contains a maximum of the elements essential to life and health and a minimum only, or none at all, of the deleterious substances always floating, in greater or leaser degree, in the stratum of the atmosphere' over the land. Thus inhaled throughout the day, the pure, soft air soothes the nerves, invigorates the functions, promote! sleepiness, and welcome repose. Sound slumber supervenes, and no business appointments to be met, abundant time is taken for breakfast dinner, and supper— with an invigorated appetite and improved digestion. The invalids to whom an ocean atmosphere is moat commendable are pointed out by that whioh is just abtve Btated— c i/i nmptives in the incipient stage umi persons predisposed to wMisump'uim ; persons of scrofulous diaih'^is j persons afflicted with net vuh complaints — not organic nervou-iiii-JHHHs, but th- easily re« cognised condition* of overwork, though of eu umiefiuable, the result of physic ii or mental nervous strain, anxiety. w irry, irritability, debility, nervous ii^nkdowo, insomnia; and persons - ffl:.:ied with chronic nep« hri U