Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — COLD WAVES. [ARTICLE]

COLD WAVES.

They Purify the Atmosphere and Benefit the Hum System. The cold wave, so much dreaded by most people, Is really a blessing In disguise. It charges the atmosphere with fresb oxygen and a surplus of free electricity, which produces a most exhilarating and beneficial effect upon mankind. Torpid energies are aroused, physical vigor and resistance Increased, by the advent of a cold wave to such an extent that any incidental damage is more than made up for. The American climate has always been recognized as a strong factor in causing the aggressiveness and enterprise which have lifted bur people into the first rank among nations and made ns commercially supreme. The cold wave, with its results of Increased energy and vigor, is a meteorological phenomenon peculiar to this country. The ehlef of the weather bureau at Washington explains the origin of this wave. It appears that with a high pressure system, rotating with great velocity, large volumes of cold air are drawn down from above the clouds, so that the cold wave Is "homemade," being simply a product of motion. The aystem of motion originates in the north® west, but the cold air cotnes frora above the clouds. I The cold wave is not only useful fol its beneficial effect upon the humarl system, but as a cleansing and purify! ing agency. It dissipates the deadljJ carbonic acid gas, the product of respil ration and combustion, and the foul cfl fluvla <?f decaying matter, Atmospheric circulation generally and! thereby relieving stagnation.—Medical! Brief. j