New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-24
VENTILATION AND WARMTH

things which are most necessary happiness imposes
IN awful penalty of disease and death upon mankind
Notwithstanding the immense amount Of life snd health
deperdant upon the arrangements for warming ana yea
taarg our dwellings, and the vast amount Of capital ana
skill empoyed in their construction it find any
correct conceptions what necessary to human health
ard comfort The malarous effects OF cellars, Easements
and under floor spaces pointed in every essay on Con
spmptoa and Architectural but moderate portion OF
the evils under which we suffer The great majority OF
American houses constant generators OF nsmnaicns
snnsrn- srd general debility. Lot ono A. briefly
as possible point out the evils aud their remedies
No healthy in winter especially to delicate son
s,ituons unless contains suicen; supply ofpure iresh
ar Of uniform temperature say between sixty and seventy
degrees Fahrenheit 1t is very simple matter to secure
this condition Of health but how few the apartments in
which Il csn be found When open fire place is used
there is large current of cir passing up the wide chimney
much larger often than necessary and seems TO be
forgotten that Just much cold air from out OF doors must
be rushing in at the time 1t blows through every
c,eyce of the windows the door, and the wall toward the
FIRE plsce Sometimes when sitting before the fire.
place the rushing through the keyhoe OF the op
pose door strikes in the back almost with the precision
OF pistol shot Wherever sit run the risk OF nav
ing some Of these freezing jets of air playing upon our
backs and we are conscious at the time of being
wounded by these arrows of BOreas are probably re
minded by colds and rheumatic pains that our climate IS
rather .eye forgetting that the fault lies more in ourselves
than in the climate Besides these cold piercing currents
we have unnecessarily large windows-the thin panes Of
gase are zng temperature, and sheet OF cold ar
Is continually rolling down the surface Of the window and
falling upon the backs of verdant young gentlemen and
ladies who scarcely imagine they sit near the window
that hey doing anything mpruden or that the cold
from which they suffer the next day Just punishment OF
their ignorance
disease live
such apartments with the additional nuisance of having
the door left open dozen times day till the room half
filed with air at the freezing point The only safety for
those Of delicate health, consists in huggng close TO the
FIRE and toastng each side of the body alternately turning
round often enough haw each chilly portion of the sur
face Thus many delicate females and inyalds conrve TO
exist through the winter else las is net absolutely neces
sary that man should live they conrve to die and charge
the whole to en- "overung Providence" | an not ex-
aggeratng IN this plain picture of every day life in the
winter Ii terrible for those who have not the
stamina necessary 20 carry fight with the climate unaded
bv AFT and science The old and feeble die rapidly when
the cold weather comes On-the colder the weather the
faster they die-a mild winter many lives but in
every ordinary winter the mortality Of the old and feeble 10
twice as great as in the der OF the year. accord
ing to the best medic al statistics.
Why should ths be so-why cannot our houses be IS
,afe and comfortable in winter in summer Simply
because the eQucduOn OF oOhS W
which docs not concern us r and to all that useful
last The present generation wete not taught anything
about the lave OF heah-ttey know nothing of the science
Of man they do not even know that they are dying by
millions Cor their ignorance
How shall We remedy the evils just mentioned Very
eas-frst make your apartments alright rs near as pos
,be Then the air neededby the fire and chimney can
not get in BY creyces you must give regular entrance
but instead Of permitting in cold and freezing as
before you must heat enters and thus have your
apartment filed rih air instead Of eoh Insert
tube in the wall the back Of your fire place which VIII DO
kept no; By the back of the fire let one end oil that uoe
be open the air and the other end discharge into
the apartment by the side of your chimney and let the in
ner end be Little than the outer end so that the air
he.ted in the tube may ascend enters the apartment
While the apartment kept close there will be current OF
air coming in by the tube which ought to be about three
inches in diameter at least Strips Of iron inserted in
would render effective warmer IL your tube
should communicate with rectangular IRON box or ar
chamber the back Of your CRATE they would DC ssh
more effective If YOU consider this plan too troublesome
az IN amendment your FIRE place simpler plan might
answer viz 70 bore hole through your chimney at any
convenient point above the fire place SAY just above the
mantepece and pess through 1t soyeppe Tour OF nYo
inches in diameter communicating with the external Amos
phere Ths PIPE viii be kept hot by the smoke in the
into the apartment. It would be still; more efficient IL In
Stead OF being cylindrical the common soveppe were
aat.eped out in an ipcal form with long diameter oil
twelve inohes which should be vertical and horizontal
diameter Of two inches.
Rn all his vii be Of no avail if you allow the air to
e,er By any other channel First then procure one Of h9
new fashioned sprngs which shuts the door the moment
you have passed through t. II is not tight list the
cdces Z the windows no: tight suh them WIN c0.'o'
q Taste paper the creyi:es Then you VIII nave
warm rniorn APARTMENT almost chesply warmed and
a. comfortable as a apartment with al the superior
freshness ind pleasanness Of the atmosphere Whcn De-
longs 70 tie open IRE place.
Pm, uLv not AZ once resort to the ehesp warm stove
Tr,t b.esuse The stove does complete Yeh
ls,cn as the fire place second because The stove
uprleasent influence upon the atmosphere "H.n ''4'
oarpot endure third because the stove aecumua'S 'o
Great heat in the upper portion Of the ren isaVns
stratum Of cold air below, baking the head and freezing
tie see-.he wOr: possible treatment Tor persons OF
tedentaEy habits.
I'm, stoves cit b. perhaps, agreeable as frePsees
oud Law aide Tie iron entirely and substitute the
,eous for the ferugnous susce By adopting the stone
s,e or ear,henware material which gives less intanse
Int rnoe pleasant heat Then would adopt the hot air
,ube above recommended lie; tube be Hxed in the wal
70 introduce pure air from without to play against the stove
and be heated before il inges with the air Of the apT
rnert basin Of water upon the soye TO furnish 'As Fe
cuse moisture to The ar would be very beneficial 20 those
Of weak OF irabe lungs Whenever their IS any nna'n
rnstory condition in The ar passages moist ar Al' very
beneficial effect .
The OPEN Franklin happily combines TIE msrso' s,oss
e-srl,lo ,,d = % biz she hot ar tabe should be
.f,,s5 le ,ssst -y,nid be very satisfactory have re
III, t.ess We a stoys IA my liuiDs room. with the Pipe
srssos,Isy into he sossd fireplace ard an ar taoo
= -, ,cls "a diameter surrounding The stOve pipe,