Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
Resolutions were offered on the 21st
Airing Bedrooms.

THE most desolate-looking, sick smell
ing, and everyway repulsive room in most
houses in cold weather, is the cold, un-
ventilated bed rooms. The prevalent
| notion is, that if it is cold, it does not
need ventilation; and the next thing is
to calk up the windows, so that they 90
not get opened by any chance. That is
all wrong
Other things being equal, cold air is
more invlgorating than warm air because
more condensed, and therefore cold air
in the bed room is to be preferred during
the night. 1t is also true that cold air
may be impure; and rooms need venti-
latlng even IN the winter. Ii q room is
| warm, the air, being colder than the
warmer weather, rushes in more eagerly,
and we feel it more keenly, and this mis-
leads us to think that we need not take
| pains to ventilate bedrooms in cold
weather. All this being true, a fire in a
room helps ventilation, especially an
open fire, and it is well to have fire
enough to take the chill off the air and
| the bedding every evening. 1t may even
be kept going all night, provided you
have some window or ventilator open.
Ii you have not been accustomed to sleep
with the window open, begin with very
small opening, and then gradually in
crease it, but do not let the wind blow
directly upon you. If you feel it and
cannot avoid it, turn your face to it. In
the morning, just as you are vacating the
room, throw it open, and all the more if
there have been no fire in it.
AS for the bedding, hang that out of
the window. 1t will air three times as
fast as it can in the room. Try it, and
then smell of it, if you would know the
difference. Let your bed and room air
thus an hour or two, according to wind
and weather-and in the summer much
longer. Do not fear that this will make
you appear untidy. The best housekeeper
is the one who knows how best to make
the house and its work serve the health
and the comfort, as well as the taste of
its inmates, not the one who makes ND
her bed as soon as she is out of it, cover
ing up all the foul exhalations of the
night previous, and then sleeping in them
the next night. Some of the chamber
work cannot well be done too early. but
the beds may be LETT until ten o'clock.
Then protect yourself with head sontag
and gloves, and make them up and tidy
the rooms, but do not allow yourself to
become chilled. The latter result will not
happen so readily as you might expect.
With room well ventilated and summed,
you can work comfortably with the Their
mometer eight or ten degrees lower than
in room where these two items are
lacking. This is the direct advantage of
fresh air and sunshine The indirect, but
still greater economy, is found in the fine
spirits and the elastic vigor that increase
your ability to wash, and in diminishing
the doctors bills.-Science Of Health.
JUDGE GARY, of Chicago, has rendered
an opinion that there is no law on the
statute books of Illinois against what is
commonly known as knocking down"
by railroad conductors and others. 1t is
the taxing of money in an unlawful man
ner, and not the keeping of it, that con-
stltutes the offense known as larceny, and
hence any person who is duly authorized
to receive money for his employer can
KNOCK down" the same with impunity.
so far as the law is concerned.