{"id":7257,"date":"2021-07-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2021-07-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:00:00","slug":"fresh-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/fresh-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Evening Star, July 7, 1913<\/a>. By Walt Mason.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s full of wholesome air, undoped, uncolored, undefiled; it\u2019s blowing round us everywhere, enough for woman, man and child. And yet we box ourselves up tight the whole year round in dusty rooms; and sickness gets the foolish wight who in this way stale air consumes. And then he blows his wad for pills, and things you shake before you take, and tells long tales about his ills, describing every grievous ache. Fresh air preventive is and cure of half the ills beneath our hats, within the reach of people poor, as well as that of plutocrats. And that\u2019s the reason why, no doubt, the fresh air cure-all doesn\u2019t win; it\u2019s why we keep the pure air out, and try to keep the stale air in. We can\u2019t have faith in any dope that doesn\u2019t cost like old Sam Hill; and so we anchor faith and hope to plaster, potion and to pill. We\u2019ll buy the old expensive drugs until some faker sees \u2019twill pay to sell fresh air in gallon jugs, and then we\u2019ll buy it every day. And, while the smiling faker thrives, in testimonials we\u2019ll declare that fresh air saved our fading lives when all the docs were in despair. So let us wait for that glad day when fresh air\u2019s bottled in New York; we\u2019ll want it when we have to pay a plunk a throw, and pull a cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The country\u2019s full of wholesome air, undoped, uncolored, undefiled; it\u2019s blowing round us everywhere, enough for woman, man and child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-walt-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}