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By CHARLES N LURIEi RE you well and do you wish to

remain well Sleep outdoorsb Are you ill and do you wishJ to regain health Again

sleep outdoors In every gradation ofhealth or illness the admonition isgiven and It is being heeded throughout the land A

If one were inclined to be irreverentor to jesb with areally serious subjectone might say that sleeping outdoors-Is the latest fad of the physiciansphysiologists and health culturistsBut the subject is one of too seriousinterest and widespread importance topermit of light treatment

In a sense sleeping outdoors may betermed a phase of the back to naturemovement that has attracted so muchnotice in recent years Its advocacyis a part of the propaganda for thesubstitution of saner simpler moreprimitive methods of living for present day artificial modes But it Ismore than that It is a distinct and

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very valuable therapeutic agency inthe treatment of various diseases notably tuberculosis In many casesgratifying results have followed thesubstitution of outdoor for indoorsleeping In conjunction with othermethods of treatmentAn Authority on the Subject

Writing on Outdoor Sleeping DrThomas Spees Carrington assistantsecretary of the National AssociationFor the Study and Prevention of Tu-berculosis says

Outdoor sleeping Is not a fad norIs it to be considered only as a meansfor curing disease Thousands ofhealthy families have their sleepingporches One large house In a middlewestern city whose Inmates are strongand healthy has sleeping porches attached to nearly all of Its bedrooms

This new custom has come to stayfor once a person becomes accustomed-to the open air he cannot be persuaded-to sip again in a stuffy bedroomThe or woman who has risen fromman

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ed morning alter morning for yearswith that tired feeling will not goback to habits of life which cause thiscondition when so simple a remedy as-

a night in the open air preventsAny person can sleep out of doors

as tho expense of arranging a shelteris small Any permanent verandalarge enough to hold a bed can bescreened or boarded enough for pro-tection almost without cost If thereare a few old boards around the housebuild a protection for the head of yourbed on your front porch and make theexperiment of sleeping out one nightusing an ordinary single bed and thesame bedding that is usually upon ItAfter a night or two you will feel sofresh and bright In the morning thatyou will begin to plan for aoutdoor sleeping arrangement andwonder how you were ever able tosleep In the houseEasy In Summer but In Winter-

It Is of course easy In summer tocarry into execution the plan of sleep

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prairie chicken one of theinteresting beautiful

valuable of all our Amerigame birds Is on the

verge of extermination It Is following the wild pigeon into oblivion asrapidly as that bird went in the seventies The prairie chicken Is practicallyextinct now in several western statesWhere formerly it was abundant Il-

linois Iowa and Wisconsin for In-stance There are not more than 10per cent of the number of these birdsin the west that there were twenty

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years ago when they were commonThe prairie chicken Is one of the

most Industrious bug eaters in thiscountry Throughout the spring summer and autumn it feeds on grasshoppers potato bugs crickets beetles andother insects that prey on the farmers crops From statistics compiledby the government we learn that thefarmers of this country are losingmore than a billion dollars a year byreason of the ravages of Insects andthese bugs are here are doing thisappalling amount of damage because

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the birds which nature put here to eatthe bugs have been killed off

Yet this bird this Industrious bugeater has been hunted so persistentlythat it has been almost wiped off themap Hunting seasons have beenshortened from time to time the number of birds allowed to each shooterper day has been reduced but population has grown multiplied and massed in the states where prairie chickensare native So called Improvementshave been made in firearms and ammunition The murderous pump gun

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Such scenes as are depicted here were common onthe prairies twenty years ago and may occasionally be witnessed yet Inplaces where enough prairie chickens are left to form a These dances are conducted In the spring of theyear the mating season and while certain of the birds are engaged In these strange movements others of the males areuttering their wonderful booming calls which may be heard on a still morning a mile away

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ing outdoors When the air withinfour walls however well provided withwindows Is stilling and any breezethat blows brings only the suggestionof a Saharan simoom not much argument Is required to convince a personthat he should take up his bed andwalk Nothing worse than a

with its remotethreat of a wetting is to be fearedThe only requisite is privacy and thatcan be obtained easily everywhere savein the congested tenement districtsAdvising us on how toTJeep cool insummer Dr Graeme Hammond thewell known New York health author-ity says Sleep outdoors if you can

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prairie chickens today where therewas only one twentyfive or thirtyyears ago In any of the westernstates

If all the states which still havechickens left would set aside a

few in each county onwhich no shooting should be allowedat any time and then enforce suchlaws the prairie chicken could besaved The people would soon learnto respect such laws for they wouldrealize that the birds would increaserapidly on these protected areas andthe surplus would overflow on the surrounding country and afford goodshooting for those who want to kill

On the other hand the birds wouldsoon learn where they were safe frompersecution and large numbers of themat least would do their nesting andfeeding and breeding on the groundswhere there would be no shooting

Such refuges would not only be valuable for the preservation of the prairiechicken but in some of the states forquail as welL On such preserved territory certain species of ducks wouldnest and within five years these refuges would become pleasure resortsfor the people for it vJtouId be a

experience womenand children to drive or walk throughthese protected sections and study thebird life that would become abundantthere

Many of the most prominent ornithologists and game protectors in thecountry have considered this plan forsaving the prairie chicken and indorseit heartily Here are quotations froma few

Hon John F Lacey exmember ofcongress and author of the Lacey birdlaw and many otoer measures for thepreservation of wild animals and birdssays Your scheme for the creationof refuges for prairie chickens andother game birds is eminently prac-tical and I earnestly hope you maybe successful in inducing the

of the prairie states to adoptDr W T Hornaday director of the

New York Zoological park says Beyond all question the prairie chicken-Is doomed to early and total extermination unless drastic measures areadopted Incite behalf Its

would be nothing short national disgrace

William Dutcher president of theNational Association of Audubon Societies says 1 have read your articleentitled Save the Prairieand heartily approve Your articleshould be In the hands of every farmerwhere prairie chickens and quails arcstill to be found

Dr T S Palmer of the department-of agriculture Washington says Iheartily approve your suggestion regarding refuges for prairie chickensand I hope the necessary legislationmay be secured In the near future-

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But in winter the cold season whenthe wintry winds do blow as the songhas it sleeping outdoors Is a differentproposition It takes nerve to consider sleeping outside when the mer-cury displays a tendency to dropthrough the bottom of the thermome-ter The Icy north wind is harder toface than the summer breeze no matter how hot tho latter be Per

it is a reversion to ancestral In-stincts that makes us fear cold morethan heat although It Is certain that extreme heat combined withhumidity kills more persons In this

than extreme cold Butit Is in winter no less than in

summer that the benefits of outdoorsleeping are to be enjoyed Escapefrom the vitlatedi generally superheat-ed atmosphere of indoors is of vitalimportance to the sufferer from disease and for the yell person alsosince it is in this atmosphere that somany illnesses are bred and propagated It Is only a few years since thehouse physician of Fordham hospital

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Wong fob China with theweeks wash pletty quick

Uncle Is not going toaway with the weeks

No indeed When itall nicely washed and

ironed and ready to be delivered he isgoing to send it out again to be circulated And you and I reader willnot be able to tell it from new money

Pretty stingy of the old gentleman-to take the old soiled money and washit and reissue at all Epigrammatically it costs moneyto make money Every one of the finespecimens of steel engraving circulating as money in this country meansan outlay of 13 cents for the government When a soiled note reaches thetreasury In Washington or one of thesubtreasuries a new one must be issued to take its place But laundering-a note in one of the governments newmachines no matter how badly soiledthe bill Is costs only onetenth of acent When you remember that 200000000 new bills to take the place ofsoiled bills were Issued last year andthat 80 per cent or 1COOOOOOO of themwere washable it will be seen that thesaving to be effected in one year by thenew washing machines is considerableUncle Sam will find that it will payhim to play the laundryman

Forutfee prevent the government isgoing into the note laundering business only in the treasury department-in Washington A battery of six ofthe washing machines has been installed in the big building near theWhite House Later the machineswill be placed In the nine subtreas

New York Boston ChicagoPhiladelphia New Orleans BaltimoreCincinnati St Louis and San Francisco Soiled money sent or brought-to any of these places will be reissued-as good as new or better

That better rouses thought Cananything be better than a brand newcrjdp United States note fresh fromthe press If money experts are to bebelieved the Is yes The better thing is a newly laundered notewhich acquires in the laundering process a softness and pliability that ismore agreeable to the touch if such athing is possible than a new noteAlso the edges may be less sharp andless liable to scratch and cut thefingers of banfc tellers who have tocount the bills

Laundering a soiled bill In one ofthe new money washing machines is

much like putting a piece of soiled clothing through one of the

Clothes washing machines Itshould be understood of course thatthe government uses for its moneyonly linen stock paper of very highquality It is calculated to withstand-an extraordinary amount of wear andtear When a note returns ladenwith soil and germs to the treasury or

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in New York city startled the medicalworld by placing his pneumonia patients in outdoor beds In cold weatherHis experiment proved successfulSleeping outdoors during the four seasons of the year is now advocated bythe modern physiologist Adequate cov-ering Is necessary of courseYoungsters Like the Idea

As the entire trend of modernis toward rather than

cure Hi is well to emphasize the im-portance laid upon outdoor sleeping asa means of keeping one well ratherthan as a medical prescription for therestoration of impaired health It isconsidered an encouraging sign by themedical profession that the youngstersof the race look upon outdoor sleeping-as a good thing

In a pamphlet issued by Dr Carsociety namod above the

following directions are given forsleeping outdoors

Tenement house dwellers and persons living in apartment houses Inlarge cities should make every effortpossible to give the open air treatment-to a member of the family who con

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substreasury it Is still able to go without damage through the variouscleansing processes The machine putsit through a severe course of hot soapsuds for five minutes then live minutesmore of plain cold water then starchIng with special sizing then sterilizing with a newly Invented antiseptic then wringing and finally ironingand pressing-

At present only the greenbackswhich form the bulk of our paper currency are to be subjected to thecleansing processes The reason forthis is found in the fact that the soapsuds used to launder the bills is neces-sarily made so strong that It bleachesthe yellow backs of the gold certificates as well as the signatures of thebank presidents and cashiers The

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tracts tuberculosis First considerthe possibility of moving into thesuburbs or nearby small towns Ifthis cannot be done try to obtain fromthe landlord the use of the roof andbuild a small shack there If this isbeyond the means of the family useone room with a window opening on astreet or large court for the patientand then place the head of the bedbeside the window and cover it with awindow tent The cost of a windowtent Is aboutx10 and if it cannot baobtained take two large heavy cottonsheets sew them together along theedge tack one end of the double sheetto the top of the window casing anddrop the lower end over the outer sideof the bed fastening the bottom ofthe sheet to the bed rail with tapeThere will be enough cloth hanging-on each side of the window to formthe sides of the tent A window tentcan be made at home for about 3 byusing twelve or fifteen yards of heavydenim or light canvas By these methods the patient gets fresh airwindow and the room is kept warm incold weather as a place for dressingand toilet purposes The fiat roofs oftenements and apartment houses inlarge cities should if possible be usedas breathing places fby the tenantsShacks or cabins can be built uponthem at small cost and make an

and easily provided shelterIf the family lives In a small town

or the country It will usually be foundthat a porch is the most convenientway of providing open air quartersWhat is of the most importance is tofind a sheltered spot protected fromthe wind for the wind is much harderto bear than even intense cold When-a house has permanent verandas andthe family cannot afford the expense-of providing a special porch for thepatient the veranda on any floor maybe used and privacy and protectionobtained by putting up canvas cur-tains or bamboo screens

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understood generally to apply onlyfiguratively to the money critics ofthe condition of our currency were notslow to use it in reference to thephysical condition of the notes Thatthe frayed soiled bills have been areproach to Americans there can beno question Frequent comparison hasbeen made of our money with theclean looking white banknotes of theBank of England and with other for-eign Issues It was of little avail topoint out that the British notes wererepresentative of a value of at least

5 and that the functions oflower circulation were performed inGreat Britain by gold not as with usby bills of lower denomination It wasargued with reason that the soiledAmerican bills served as transmitters

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greenbacks are printed in a metallicink that withstands the suds Laterin all likelihood the gold certificatesand banknotes will bo printed withinks that will go safely through thewashing machines

Several years ago the term taintedmoney came into use as a designationfor wealth that had been gained indevious ways and then applied tophllanthroplcal purposes by its possessor In an effort to obtain absolutionfor his sins of commission and omission While th word tainted war

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and disseminators of diseases anddeaths of bank employees were tracedto their handling of soiled money

The story of the old Massachusettslady who washes and irons each billshe receives before sending It forthhas obtained wide circulation and oredence But there is a suspicion thatit was originated by persons who

to call forcibly the of theWashington the

condition of so much of ourcurrencyWILLIAM HENDERSON

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