Breathing Through the Mouth.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 7

Breathing Through the Mouth.

Tight dressing though the moat serious hindrance to the habit of good breathing:, 13 not the only obstacle. Thosra are careless ways of sitting and standing; that draw theshoulders forward and cramp the cheat, and ifc is as hard for the lungs to do good work when the chest is narrow and constricted as it ia for a closely bandaged hand to set a copy of clear, graceful p-muianship. Then there are lazy ways of breathing, and onesided ways of breathing, and the particularly bad habit of breathing through the mouth. Now, the nose was meant to breathe through, and it is marvellously arranged for filtering the impurities out of the airand for changing it to a suitable temperature for entering the lung 3. Tin- mouth haa no such apparatus, and when air is swallowed through the mouth instead of breathingthrough the nose, it has an injurious effect* upon the lungs. A atory is told of an Indian who had a personal encounter with a. white man much his superior in size and strength, and who was asked afterward if he was not afraid. "Me never afraid of man who keeps mouth open," was the immediate reply. Indeed, breathing through; the mouth giveß a foolish and weak expression to the face, as you may see by watching 1 anyone asleep with the mouth open. It may be noted that an ancemic, or low condition of the blood is seldom found where there ia an established habit of full, deep breathing with the mouth closed. Helen Clark Swazy r in » St. Nicholas for October.