The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-11-26
VOLUME X.---NO. 20.
Practical Hints.

Practical Hints.
1t is not generally known that burning lights
are unhealthy in sleeping rooms. The com.
bustion of gas, oil, tallow or whatever material
is used for illuminating purposes, renders the
air impure; for it consumes oxygen, the great
life sustaining element in the atmosphere.
Man cannot live, only for few moments, in
room deprived of its oxygen. 1T should be
remembered that air is composed of oxygen %
parts and nitrogen n parts Now, when this
element is anyway reduced below the standard
of pure outdoor air. it is sure to interfere with
the healthy functions of life and lay the foun-
dations of disease.
Science teaches us that respiration and CONF
bustion require the, same element to support
them, namely, oxygen. Put a burning lamp
in an air tight room, and when this element
in the air is used up, the lights will go outi
and under the same condition man would
die. Every one has noticed what slow progress
room, and how quick it will blaze UP when
door is opened and free air is admitted. They
have also noticed how dim light will burn
toward morning in a closed sick room. No
one will need be told that burning lights in a
sleeping room is unhealthy, if they have ever
entered one from the pure air, late at night,
where two or three persons were sleeping with
burning kerosene lamp, and smell the foul
and noxious air that has been deprived of its
oxygen and poisoned by carbonic acid and half
burned kerosene lamp smoke, which charges
the blood with noXious matter and so perverts
the action of the brain and nervous centres
that neither the physical nor mental powers
can be duly exercised. People who sleepdn
this way, will arise in the morning, tired aud
unrefreshed, with bad taste in the mouth,
and sense of heat and aching in the head.
Their heads feel dull and hot, their minds are
sluggish, and they are unfit for study or labor
until they have recuperated their systems with
some of Gods pure air, which can be had for
nothing anywhere out of doors.
A room which requires an artificial light,
should be we'll ventilated to keep the air in
pure condition. If you must keep light
burning all night, open your windows and keep
constant supply of fresh air in your room
then you will sleep sweetly, awake in the morn
ing refreshed and invigorated, with clear
head and strong arm ready for the duties OF
the hour.
In reading or working by lamp-light, the rays
of light should fall directly on the book or
work and not on the eye. Many persons have
impaired their eye-sight, permanently, by hav-
ing the light by their side, and letting the rays
shine obliquely across the eye. The face
should be in the light and the light shine full
on the object looked at. This can be accom-
plished by lamp-shade, hanging-lamp, or
the light placed above and back OF the person
using it. -. ......,..;...a
A fire burning in a room consumes oxygen
and gives off as the products OF combustion,
carbonic acid unconsumed particles OF CARBON
and water, which pass up the ehlmney.ln
smoke. Now, the air used to supply the tlre,
is replaced by pure air which finds Its way IN
through the cracks and crevices around the
doors and windows and about the room. I'm
less there is fresh supply the fire willnot
burn long. Therefore, fire is healthy and a
purifier of the air; especially an open ire,
which always keeps the air good and pure by
constant current going up the chimney, while
all the products Of lamp combustion remain in
the room to poison the air. - -.
I saw good illustration Of bad air the other
day. An old lady asked me what made her
poor, pale, puny, peevish little grandchiid
sstake cold so easy" He was in a small room
with curtains down and shawls pinned up over
the curtains, excluding light and air, and IN
halinc air which was foul and unfit to breathe
Said she, II haint carried that child out doors
this winter, nor opened window, and have
kept the room hot night and day, and lamp
burning all night for fear something would
happen. I do believe people are growing
weaker, if not wiser Why! when was. gal,
we used to live in an old log house, with:an
old fashioned Fireplace, and a chimney SO: big
we could set by the fire and look out and see
the stars, and the wind would whistle through
the cracks and we. went barefooted till the
snow came, ard lived on pea -porridee Fand
bread ard d-mik and potatoes and salt j and
were all as hearty and tough as bucks.lis
said, Madam, if you will only give your child
as good air and as good plain food as you used
to have; he will be as healthy as you were.
This cannot be accomplished at once because
vou have vitiated his appetite, with dainties,
and impaired his health by keeping him too
long I'M bad air. But take time feed touplain
food clothe him comfortably, and, above ail
things give him plenty of good, purefAlf, ,beth
night and day /; let him run and, play 0ntof
doors, and you will have no occasion to:wonder
why he takes cold so easily:"is h,'. .l'f} sar
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~ MISUNDERSTANDING BUREAB.--At aarge
and respectable meeting. of the BARRIERS otiGra
hamvile, New, recently held, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted, amid great enthusiasm: .Jj:r3
Whereas it is the awfully solemn duty of all
civilized governments to protect such Oh the
citizens as do not wear their boards from being
shaved: .aGEG IN
And whereas much of the shaving soap now
in use is utterly unfit for use; 3 ..a :,d
And whereas. many OF the boys and young
men employed by our trade take hold, of the
noses of our customers with dirty fingers and
are utterly ignorant of the proper method3o
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