DEEP BREATHING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue XXXII, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEEP BREATHING.

•» Nouonv teaches boys how to breathe. City boys, and many from the country, too, have tincr'chests before they go to. school than they ever do afterwards Sitting in a schoolroom, or shop, or factory, or any other room, fi»'e or six hours a day, and then sitting most of the rest of the day besides, does much to weaken the chest ; for when you sit still you do not breathe your lungs half full. Take one large, full breatli and see how your chest rises aud expands, and how differently from a minute ago, when breathing only as you generally do. Many boys do not breathe their lungs full onco in a whole week. Lt is any wonder they have weak chests and that they easily catch cold ': How are you to have strong lungs if you do not use them? Which lias the strong arms—the invalid leaving a sick bed or the blacksmith; he who uses his arms, or he who does not? When walking at the rate of feur miles an hour you breathe nearly live times as much air as when you are sitting still. Now, the fuller breaths you take, and the more of them you take in a day the stronger and fuller chest you are going to have. If every boy in the United States would take a thousand slow, very deep breaths every day from now on throughout his life, it would almost double our vigour and effectiveness as a nation. For deep breathing not only enlarges the chest itself, and makes it shapely and strong, but it gives power and vigour to the hint; and heart, and makes them do their work far better. And it does the same thing to the stomach and bowels, the liver and kidneya ; indeed, to all the vital organs. It makes the blood richer. It adds directly to the vigour of the brain as well, and so enables it to do more work. In short, it ia about the best known way of getting and keeping health. And who would care to hire a sick man to work for him ? Or who can do much hard work when he is sick ? Not that we can always avoid sickness, but it is less likely to come, and has harder work to enter, when we are robust and in good training than when we are weak and run down, — Harper's Young People.