This science is undoubtedly of the first importance, but what advantage is good birth if afterward life is poisoned with foul air?
A dust-laden atmosphere is a germ-laden atmosphere, therefore physicians prescribe for tubercular convalescents conditions in which the air is 90% free from dust.

However, the air of the city has been scientifically proven to be as pure as the air of the country.

All that is necessary to secure proper lung food is plenty of it,--houses so constructed that the air inside shall be free to go out and the air outside to come in.

Air in a closed cage must be mischievous, and what are ill-ventilated rooms but vicious air cages, in which mischiefs of all sorts breed?
America professes to believe in publicity, and what is "publicity" but the open window and the open door?
Practise this philosophy and it will be easy to keep on the sunny side of the street and to discourage the glooms.

The joys fly in at open windows.
[1] I have never been a smoker and have always eschewed tobacco, cigarettes, etc.; though for a short while to oblige friends I occasionally accepted a cigarette, now I firmly refuse everything of the sort.
[2] Since writing the above, I have heard from an American lady that "progressive dinners" have recently been introduced by the idle and rich set of young people in New York.