. The Decorator's assistant. conjecturesthat Alexander, the impostor, had a piece of itbound round his thigh. The dress of the priests,on the festival of Bacchus, was perhaps of thesame kind.—Abridged from Bohns Edition ofBechnanns Inventions. Effects of Foul Air.—The purity of theair we breathe is quite as important as thewholesomeness of the food we eat. When airis loaded with putrid gases, from decaying ani-mal and vegetable substances, it becomes anactual poison. When the air is very foulindeed, it has been known, in some fev/ instan-ces, to destroy life in an instant; and vei-yoften fatal
. The Decorator's assistant. conjecturesthat Alexander, the impostor, had a piece of itbound round his thigh. The dress of the priests,on the festival of Bacchus, was perhaps of thesame kind.—Abridged from Bohns Edition ofBechnanns Inventions. Effects of Foul Air.—The purity of theair we breathe is quite as important as thewholesomeness of the food we eat. When airis loaded with putrid gases, from decaying ani-mal and vegetable substances, it becomes anactual poison. When the air is very foulindeed, it has been known, in some fev/ instan-ces, to destroy life in an instant; and vei-yoften fatal disease is brought on by exposure tosuch air, even for a short time. But thegeneral effect of impure air is the gradualdiminution of health and strength, not pro-ducing actual disease, but rather that tendencyto disease which renders every sickness withwhich a person may be attacked, more severemore unmanageable, and more frequently fatal— Why are Toiv7is Unhealthy ? 84 THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. B^cotatibe F all words,excellence is,piobably, oneof the mostaccommodating thatcan be met with inthe English dic-tionary,—its appli-cation being regu-lated by a sort ofintellectual sliding-scale, which adaptsitself at once to thehighest and lowest capacity—supplying anever-ready encomium on the perfect effort ofartistic genius, or the ambitious endeavour ofthe precocious schoolboy. We will not stop toinquire whether this extraordinary etymo-logical elasticity^ be right or wrong, but,taking the word in its strict and literal signifi-cation, strive to point out the mode of attain-ing what its meaning expresses, without layingourselves open to the imputation of attain the acme of anything, it is re- quisite that it should through all the gradations from a mere elementary state ; but this does not include what has been unfortunately the case with re^ gard to Decoration, namely, a total stand-still, rendered worse by the imbibement of a false and vicious tas
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