Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Warming Country Houses.

ONE of the most important items in the
preservation of the general health is being
comfortably warm all the time, for then
we would never take cold. There should
be a room in every farmers family that
should be kept at temperature of not un-
der 65o Fab, from daylight until bedtime,
all winter, by stove or furnace heat stoves
are better, because they will bring up the
heat more quickly. When the farmer
comes in from his work, he is generally
over heated and tired, both conditions
making him greatly more susceptible of
taking cold; or on the other hand, he is
very cold from having been riding, or en-
gagged in something which has not in
volved activity enough to keep him ade-
quately warm, and then well-heated room
is exceedingly grateful, and gradually
raises the temperature of the surface of the
body to its natural condition.
Large stoves consume less fuel, in pro-
portion, than small ones, and give out more
heat, hence are more economical.
1t is a common error, in the country, to
have too small stoves, so as to economize
space, and under the mistaken notion that
they consume less fuel in proportion. A
circular stove, six feet high and about two
feet in diameter, lined with fire. brick two
feet high, will keep large room more
equally warm, and maintain purer at
mosphere, with very much less amount
of fuel, than our common stoves. Stoves
of this shape, made of porcelain, are used
in Germany and Russia, where wood is
grown for fuel; and, from personal obser-
vation, we think that about half the
amount of wood is consumed, giving
greater, better, and more comfortable heat
than we have here. In farmers houses,
an immense amount OF heat is used in
warming "all out doors" The longer a
| flue is, the stronger the draft; all flues
| should be built from the ground, thus Sc
curing good draft, and also saving mil
lions of property every year from being
burned, which is the case when tlues are
built on floors up through the rafters and
roof
Two sitting rooms on the same floor
and one or two chambers above, may be
adequately warmed by one stove thus Let
the stove stand in one room, and let pipe
of good size he sent through the partition
into the adjoining room, where II should
expand into large drum from this drum
the ordinary pipe should extend through
the floor, into the chamber above, with
drum there, if needed. Only moderate
amount of heat is needed in a chamber; (;
but that moderate amount is needed in
winter time. There is no advantage in
going to bed in a cold room, nor in sleep
ing in cold room, nor in getting up and
dressing in a cold room; persons may sur
vive it; many have lost their health by it.
To have the chill taken of the air on
going TO bed, and when dressing, is COM
Portable and healthful. A room under
45e is a cold room for a sleeping apart
ment, and sleeping in an atmosphere, in
doors, lower than that is always hurtful, is
always positively pernicious, for the simple
reason that such a temperature causes the
carbonic acid gas of a sleeping apartment
to condense and settle in the lower part OF
the room, where it is breathed into the
lungs, with the most pernicious results.
Sleeping in a room cooler than above
named is especially dangerous to aged, fee
BILE and invalid persons, as it tends to
cause Inflammation of the lungs. Persons
may sleep out of doors with impunity
when the temperature is many degrees
lower; that is because the outdoor air is
pure, is full of life, full of oxygen, without
any admixture of indoor poisons, and
hence gives a vigor of circulation, which
keeps the whole body warmed to its
natural point, resisting cold and all dis
eased conditions. - Halls Journal o.
Health.