“O, horrid creature!” exclaims a modern belle.
But, then, my grandmother could breathe! You cannot—only half breathe! And my “grandmarm” had a fresh color to her cheeks and lips, and a good bust, till she was over sixty years of age, and she lived to be almost a hundred years old. You won’t live to see a third of that time. Did our grandfathers or mothers die of consumption? O, no. Still they lived well—mine did. When I see a modern mince pie, it quickly carries my mind back to childhood days, when I think of a little boy who thought grandmothers were gotten up expressly to furnish nice cakes and mince pies for the rising generation.
O, but she was jolly—and so were her pies!
An Irish blunderer once said, “Ah, ye don’t see any of the young gals of the present day fourscore and tin years ould;” and probably we should not see many of our present “crop” if we should survive that age.
Drs. A., B., and C., tell me how many ladies who visit your offices can take a full, deep breath. “Not one in a score or two!” So I thought.
| A CONSUMPTIVE WAIST. CAUSE, TIGHT CORSETS. | NON-CONSUMPTIVE WAIST. NEVER WORE CORSETS. |
Lungs which are not used in full become weak and tender. Do you have sore places about your chest? Practise inflating your lungs with pure air through the nostrils,—where God first breathed the breath of life,—and give room for the lungs to expand, and the “sore places” will all disappear after a time. See my article on breathing. Put it into steady, moderate practice, and the result will be beneficial beyond all conception.
Consumption is Curable.
“Is it true that consumption of the lungs is ever cured?” is a question which is often seriously asked.
“O, yes,” I reply.