Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-19
Airing Chambers.

This, says Halls Journal Of Health, may
be safely done in winter time when the day
is clear, at any hour between sunrise and
sunset, but on cloudy and damp days it is
better to kindle fire and thus create draft
up the chimney. A bed should always be
made several hours before sundown, before
it has time to gather the damps of the even
ing. 1t will refresh us greatly if on waking
up of winters night we get out of bed,
throw all the clothing to the foot and the
next instant throw it back; this drives all
the confined air away from the bedding
without allowing it to get very cold in ad-
dition the hands should be passed over the
skin of the whole body two or three times I;
this operation is accompanied by a degree
of refreshment and feeling of purity on
entering the bed again which more than
pays for the trouble, and it is often great
sleep promoter, enable person to fall into
sound slumber in few minutes after
having been tossed restlessy for hours.
Shut your mouth when going from cold
to hot atmosphere, as well as the reverse
this simple operation brings the temperature
of either cold or hot air to the natural stand
ard before it reaches the lungs, by making it
take the circuit of the head whereas, if the
mouth is kept open, it dashes down into the
w
awake, we should accustom ourselves to keep
the mouth shut the advantage in our sleep
ing hours is that we don't snore we don't
have the nightmare flies, bugs and spiders
don't crawl down the throat, and we don't
tell tales in our dreams the benefits in the
day time are that it induces more healthful,
deep, full and free action of the lungs, pre-
vents innumerable chils and colds, and
| saves many n domestic sorrow
In regulating the temperature OF rooms,
! there is no fixed standard, but ordinarily we
are comfortable in church, if at the height
of five feet from the floor, in the centre OF
the building, Fahrenheit's thermometer
stands at 65 degrees But in this respect no
man should be the guide for another Some
REQUIRE more heat than Others, but there is
one rule of universal application-a rule
which admits of no exceptions, the world
over, each person should notice what tenn
| perature keeps him comfortably warm, and
thus be rule to himself But when man
has taken cold, or is become bilious, or il
he stays in doors several days, he requires
more and more heat, and, If under such cir
cumstances he would eat positively nothing
for day or two and keep on piling up the
wood so as 70 keep up continued slight
perspiration the cold would be cut short off,
or the billiousness would disappear in twen-
] ty-four hours in fact, many OF our aches,
and pains, and ailments, would disappear
with an amazing promptness, If we could
persuade ourselves, when they are first
noticed, to only cease eating, keep warm,
keep quiet, and drink abandantly of any hot
| LIQUID; but the great misfortune is that nine
persons out of ten prefer to take some kind
of medicine, however nauseons. They feel
as If they could not spare the time to be
sick. and would rather swallow a quart OF
the most disgusting compound if It only
promises to cure them right away" with
! fhe result always, that they are not cured
right away but after dosing themselves for
dsys and weeks with whatever Tom, Dick
or Harry choose 20 advise, they md them
lselves coppellss, q last 70 consult physi'