The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-11-21

two ends, and We are sorry to ado
that they generally prefer darkness to
light; AID keep their blinds closed
and curtains drawn lest the Run should
fade the carpets, or color ;icir che, k
Let ,ity children grow pale and feeble
10 the di;i religious light IL which
they arc ...oaglrt uP, bEi country l''!s
and lasses havea bIrtLnght 70 riJre
light ana lie.
The house should be huilt with tao
or more stories. Why cur fathers
buiitso many iow,s qua.- looking houses,
with hot, dark, ili-venLilated and IN
convenient chambers, has ever been 4
mystery to us Probably it was done,
partly from motives of economy /;
and rarity from ignorance 1t costs,
however, but little more 30 build
two rtories. TIE same shingles that
cover the one stoIy Sill cover two,
and the increased accommodations will
pay four fold for ;heincrcased expenses.
We once asked n farmer who was
building n one-st0ry house, with eel
lar kitchen under it, Why hc did not
put on another story and arrange his
kitchen where il cught 20 he, on the
fret foo! ? His reply was, "The near
cr you can get your work 10 the earth
the more convenient It Is. / don't
like climbing into chambers" But
viii not your wife find it inconVenient
to be running up and down the stairs:'
Yes, possibly but women were made
for work, and the cellar kitchen is very
handy" The dismal, damp cellar may
have been very handy for work, but
we noticed that the wife did not live
very long to work in it, and with the
advent of a necond wife, the cellar
kitchen was converted into potato
bin.
II our family consisted of only two
persons we would build the house
with two stories, ard would sleep in a
chamber or the sunny side. Climb
ing into Chambers may be little in
convenient for old folks, but when
they arc once there, the dryer, purer
air Will compensate ior the labor. The
nearer the earth the more convenient
it may be for sleep as well as work,
but we should not, on this account.
either work or sleep in a cellar. The
more remote from the ground the
chamber, the bettor is the air, esreci-
ally in the night, and good sleeping
air is one OF the essentials for health
and long lie,
a story and hall house IL bat lit
tie better than the old fashioned ore
Cne s;oried. It has fOur-pence halt
penny look The chambers ave low
and warm, and the little windows un-
der the caves furnish poor light, aud
still poorer lookout. \ house with
twelve feet posts may be considered
economy by some, we cal! itparslmony.
Sixteen feet posts cost but little more.
and furnish far more comfort and
health.
Analogous TO this parsimony IN the
height of the house, is that of putting
a cellar only under a part. We r'-ipice
that this old practice is pretty much
obsolete. Cellar room is always want
ed, even though we may not stow
aTay so much cider in it as formerly.
The expense of whole cellar ia hut
little more than that OF q half cellar,
as the walls must be built on two sides
in both cases, and when built of the
same size as the house they furnish a
stable found It,on. Half-c e lare d
houses are very apt TO be lop-sIded
One word as TO the ventilation OF
cellars and farm houses. Farmers
generally utilize cellar room for the
storage Of potatoes, turnips and other
root crops. IL would be more for the
health OF the family if those were sLor,
ed in the barn cellar They are wont
TO decay more or less before spring,
and in their decay they emit the seeds
OF disease and death. Decay moIla-
gates decay, a. surely as hfo pTopa-
gates life. How the decomposition Of
vegetable matter should produce de-
composition IN animals is a little mys !
teIious, but there is no doubt about
the fact, aud probably more typhoid
fever has originated from putridity in
the cellars than from decomposition Of
vegetable matter IN some ncighboring
swamp.
The malarial atmosphere from The
swamp is greatly diluted with pure
air before it reaches the house, and Is
inhaled in homeopathic doses, but that
from the cellar, nnless conducted IF
arUiticially, ,permeates the whole dwell
Ing. We have been III some houses
| where the odor OF rotten cabbaees
AMI turnips were 10 percePtible that
wS felt we were inhaling poison
Ii farmers must stow their roots in
the cellars OF their houses, Ihay
should at least provide some way 81
escape for the obnoxious gases there
generated. Fortunately this Is easily
done if the chimney, extends, as it
always should, to the cellar bottom .
No vrntiiating tube was ever invent
ed equal to a chimney, and no better
deodoriztr can be foand than smoke,
SCOT and creosote. IT a register he
placed in the chimney near the top Of
the cellar, the fcul Dir will e,caj {
through it, instead of finding vent
through the doors and cracks into al
narls of the house.
Similar regulations should conn, CT
the kitchen and indeed every room OF
the house, with the ohimneys. The
problem OF thorough ventilation can
be readily solved in no other way, -
simply. so caeaPly, and so efiectqaIiy
II there is a sink, or cess pool. or
water closet, that is breathirg pe,,i
lence and death, the simple remedy i
to connect it by means of a pipe ~
o tube, with the chimney. The curr.u,
e of poisonous gas will, in every case
c be found rushing mp this tube, and
: the smoke aud SCOT of the chime,