Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Health and Temperance.

PURE AIR.

THROW open the window, and fasten it there; Fling the curtain aside, and the blind; And give a free entrance to heaven's pure air; 'Tis the life and the health of mankind.

Are you fond of coughs, colds, dyspepsia, and rheums, Of headaches, and fevers, and chills; Of bitters, hot-drops, and medicine fumes, And bleeding, and blisters, and pills?

Then be sure when you sleep that all air is shut out; Place, too, a warm brick at your feet; Put a bandage of flannel your neck quite about, And cover your head with a sheet.

But would you avoid all forms of disease Then haste to the fresh open air, Where your cheeks may kindly be fanned by the beeze; 'Twill make you well, happy, and fair.

Then open the window and fasten it there; Fling the curtain aside, and the blind; And give free admission to heaven's pure air; 'Tis life, light, and joy to mankind. —Sel.