Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-10-14

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won't say his prayers, that he don't want
to be good The simple difference is, that
the child having slept In close bcx of a
room, bis brain all night fed by poison is
ina mild state Of moral insanity. Delicate
women remark that it takes them ill
eleven or twelve o'clock to get mp theft
strength in the morning Do they sleep
with closed windows and DOORS
The perfect house is one in which there
is a constant escape Of every foul and
viliated particle of air through one opening
while constant supply of fresh out door
air must pass through some process 6y
which it is brooght up to temperate
warmth t-Gr3 9fi 20 aofssas snls3i7 SIT
Take single room, and suppose on one
side is current Of out door Dir which ha:
been warmed by passing through the ais-
chamber of o moderate furnace. It's tenn
peruture need not be above sixty Eve, il
answers breathing purposes better at that
On the other side of the room let there be
an open wood or coal fire. Oue can not
conceive the purposes of warmth and venti
latiou more perfectly combined. 'H
Suppose house with a. great central
ball, into which current Of fresh, tempe
ra'ely warmed air is continually pouring
Each chamber opening upon this hall has
chimney up whose foe the rari6ed air is
constantly passing, drawing up with it all
the foul and poisonous gas. That house is
well ventilated and iu way that need
bring no dangerous draughts upon the
most delicate invalid. For the better Sc
curing Of privacy in sleeping rooms, We
have seen two doors employed, one Of
which is made with Stats. Ikea wipdow
blind, 20 that, air is freely transmitted
without exposing the Interior is;gloq1osd
- Nv hen we speak of a fresh iairlwe Insist
on the full rigor of the term. ii'Itrmust not
be the air of a cellar heavily laden with
the, poi, onous nitrogen of turnips and cab.
bage, but good fresh outdoor air, from a
cold uir pipe SO placed az hot TO get the
lower stratum uearthe grouDd where
heavy dampS and exhalatons collect, buf
high up in jast the cearest and most
elastic REGION .'as. isH- sai Of ..ss-I 9. js,-E
The conclusion OF the whole, matter is,
| that as all of mems aud womep's peace aud
| comfort, all their love, all their nmiabiiy /,
all their religion have got TO come to them,
while they live in this world, Though the
medium of the brain. and as black un.
clennsed blood acts upon the brain aspoison
and as no other than black uuctansed
blood can be got by the lungs out of i'm
pure air, the fTst object Of the mAu who
builds house is TO secure pare aud
healthy atmosphere therein.
| Therefore, 10 allotting expenses, set this
down as q must be. Our house must, have
fresh air-everywhere, at all times. winter
and summer Whether we have Stone
facing or no; whether our parlors have
cornices or marble mau!eli or no; whether
our doors are machine made or hand made,
all our fixtures shall be OF the plainesl and
simplest, but we will have fresh air. We
will open our door with latch and string.
if we eau not afford lock aud Knob aud
fresh air, too-but 10 our houses we will
live clearly and Christianly. We will no
more breathe the foul air. rejected from a
ueighbor's lungs, than We will use q neigh
bor's tootsbrush. Snch is the FIRST. ess en-
tial of "onr house, The FIRST great element
Of human health and happiness--air. . it
y7s-otm4sa- LIGHT. g-.u s.l .tu
The second great vital element for which
provision must be made in "our house" is
fl e; by which do not mean merely art
fetal ere, but IRE in all its extent and
branches-the heayenly1 fire which God
sends US daily on the bright awings Of snn-
beams. as we'll Us the mimic s6res by which
We " arm our dwellings, cook our food, and
light our nightly darkness. ,,--5 -,
70 begin, then, With heavenly fire or sun.
shine If Gods gift of vital air is neglected
aud uuderyalued, His gift Of sunshine sp.
pears to be hated There are many houses
where no, cent has ben expended on venia
lalion, but where hundreds Of dollars have
been freely lavished to keep out the sun.
shine. The chamber, ,truly,is tight as box;
it has mo fireplace, not even u yentilat or
opening into The sioye aue. but, oh, joy
| aud giadnessI it has outside blinds and
inside folding shutters, SO that 10 the
brightest Of days We may create there a
darkness that may be felt. To observe the
generality of New England houses, a spec,
tailor might imagine that they were plan
ned for the torrid zone, where the great
Z object is to keep out furnace draughs Of
burning air.wi x III "a bsa3s els saH Il
But let US look over the months of our
calendar. In which Of them do We not
4 need fires on our hearlhs? We will yeu;
lure to say that frem October 70 June al
families, whether they actually have il or
not, wonld he the more comforiabls for o
morning aud evening fire. For eight
months in the year the weather Varies on
lhe scale OF cool, cold, colder, and freezing !;
and for all the -four other months what is
lbe number of days that really reqairethe
torrid zone system Of shutting uf housef?
We ali know that extreme heat is the ,ex
cep,ion aud not the rule.
Yet let any body travel, as did last
year, through The valley OF the Connect.
cut, and observe . the n houses q AN lclean
and white. aud neat, aDd ,well,to-d do, with
their turfy, yards, aud their breezy, great
eltns but all shut up from basement to
attic, las the inmates had all sold outl aud
gone0toq qGhinas ID Nut a windo sblindsopeu
ahossaors bclewsssAs the zhssses iahsbi.stif
No7---yes; there is 9 failt sirssk, el, blue
smokc ffom The kitchen chimney, and half
" indow blind cpea fn some distant aback
part of the house y E'ihey are Giving there
ia the, dim Shadows. blssehisg like potato
spropis in the, cellar "Our house shslI be