Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — How to Breathe. [ARTICLE]

How to Breathe.

An gave good advice to a young lady who coirfplained of sleeplessness He said: "Learn how to breathe and darken your room completely, and you won’t need any doctoring. ” “Learn how to breathe! I thought that was one thing we learned before coming into a world so terribly full of other things to be learned,” the insomniac said ruefully. "On the contrary, not nne in ten adults knows how to breathe. To breathe perfectly is to draw the breath in long, deep inhalations, slowly and regularly, so as to relieve the lower lungs of all noxious accumulations. Shallow breathing won’t do this. 4 "I have overcome nausea, headache, sleeplessness, seasickness and even more serious threntenlngs by simply going through a breathing exercise—pumping from my lower lungs, as it were, all the malarial inhalations of the day by long slow, ample breaths. Try it before golnjf to bed, making sure of standing where you can inhale pure air, and then darken your sleeping room completely. We live too much in an electric glare by night. If you still suffer from sleeplessness after this experiment is fairly tried, I shall be surprised.”