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Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1918, Page 3

DO YOU BREATHE? Very few people really breathe. They think they do, but that is a different matter. Most people take little short, half breaths which never fully empty the lungs, whereas proper deep breathing empties the lungs properly, which is what should be done by everyone who wishes to be in good health. Deep breathing is worth practising for many reasons. It improves the general health wonderfully, and is good for the nerves. It is easy to sec the reason for this. A person who breathes properly takes a good supply of oxygen into the lungs, purifying impure blood with every indrawn breath, and ridding one’s blood of impurities with every exhalation. For those who suffer from weak chests or throats, deep breathing is especially good. Then the attitudes and exercise necessary to practice breathing properly are very beneficial to the appearance. They improve the general carriage and the neck and bust. To breathe correctly, then, firstly, see that your clothing is perfectly loose and easy everywhere, then stand in an upright position, with shoulders well thrown back and head erect. Before beginning the exercise remember that it is no use to breathe “anyhow;’ ’you must learn to control your breath, breathing in and out steadily and slowly. Now, having taken a good attitude, turn the palms slowly outwards, lifting the arms a few inches away from the sides, at the same time, very slowly and evenly, inhaling through the nose; return the palms and lower the arms, at the same time, slowly and (steadily, exhaling through the mouth. Repeat this exercise three or four times, but do not do too much at a time. In a few days the arms may be raised right above the head, after turning the palms, while breathing in. To prove that you have learned to breathe, place a lighted candle 18in away, breathe opposite, and it should not flicker. ON TALKING- TOO MUCH. The desire to talk too much and at too great, length is a human weakness to bo observed* everywhere. It is a very common failing. The rich and the poor, the great and the obscure, arc alike given to it. It was as prevalent in the days of the patriarchs as it is to-day, and there is very little reason to believe that it wall ever be otherwise. There arc very few who have not hoard that “speech is silver, but silence is goldeen. ” But it is a lamentable fact that the groat majority of us seem to prefer the silvery speech, especially if we are doing the speechmaking. Conversation is often distorted by a mna or woman of the “talkative” proclivities into a monologue. 'And too frequently the painfulnoss of the situation is emphasised by the undeniable fact that they have little or nothing to say. The effect of some of the best sermons ever preached has been ruined by “talkativeness” on the part of the preacher. As Oliver W. Holmes, the great American essayist tells us: “Talking is like playing on the harp there is as .-much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.” Who docs not recall that excellent yarn, of the late Mark Twain about having been “talked” out of a very good impulse? The ptreacher was pleading for the benighted heathen, and as he talked, Twain’s generosity increased until he had reached the point where he was about to drop a bill into the collection plate. But the preacher’s kept on talking and talking, until finally, Twain, says: “I was led to change my mind and dropped a nickel instead. ’ ’ It must be remembered that we seldom repent of talking too little, but that very often we repent of talking too much, and that it is a very sad thing, as one of the philosophers has so aptly reminded us, when men have neither wit to speak well nor judg-, mont to hold their tongue .

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