St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-07-03
Closets in the House.

Having suffered for closet room AT
ON. time and another. or for places to
STOW away things. | have had consider
able sympathy with that man who said
that when he built Il house he should
begin with IL big closet and make adj
ditions to that. When speak of clos
cts my husband understands me. but
Immediately begins to talk about modes
of ventilating closets, and have only
gradually grown to understand his
strong SENSE of the necessity for closet
ventilation. Having for several Years
hung the clothin" of the family in
rooms where there WAS Il free circula-
ton of air. am surprised when | go
into the well finished clothes rooms 0et
us call them close rooms) in some fine
houses to find how dead and unwholc
some to say foul the air is. The
soiled garments hung in tight and dark
room, contaminate the whole apart
mcnt. and such contamination is very
perceptible to well-traincd nose or to
oltactorieS accustomed To the refine
mcnt of hahitual pure air. Old boots
and shoes cause Il bad smell in IL close
room.
To pursue an unpleasant subject Il
little farther-why wW people keep the
dirty clothes designed for the weekly
wash in Il close closet That which
has come from the skins of unclran OF
unhealthy persons (the latter adjective
Describes nine-tcnthS of the human
family grows constantly more impure
shut away from light and air. and every
thing kept III the same room is contain
mated 10y the ct1luNia. Can not s"ilcd
garments he kept while waiting Tor the
wash. in some bag or covered basket III
the wood-Shed or some such place
There are baskets on purpose for Soilcd
clothing. open enough for ventilation
but too fine to admit mice.
Unless Il closet is ventilated 81 that
there is some circuIdtiOn of air through
it, it is no place t" hang away night
gowns. unless they have been previous
ly aired. so that the pcr>piratiom ac
cumuated in the previous night only
inscusibe perSpirati"n, perhaps has
been dried AMI summed away.
| have no means of acccrtaining this
morning how far science has attended
to this subject of closet ventilation. but
| am very sure that il is an important
matter and should he looked we'll into.
OF course. there can he closets with
windows in them. and this should gen
orally he the case. They can he kept
dark. as Il general rule. if desired. Int
it ought to he possible /" admit ii flood
of light.
/ Closets built under starway~ might
he ventilated by Il crate closed 10y II
sliding shutter under one of the stairs.
1t would he well to have the CRATE cap
able of being shut to keep ont dust
when the stairs are swept. | do not
know whether this has been tried. hut
the idea has occurred to me ;i> practihlc.
\ small sliding window in the closet
door is also possible. Tn. small sliding
window in the door and the crate in
the elevation of one of the stairs ought
to give IL sufficient circulation of air to
IL small stairway closet
1t is idle to suppose that Il closet tor
any other ROOM is provided with ven
tilation because it is built large and
high. There must he some circnidti0H
of the air, or the atmosphere becomes
dead. american -1JvjcHltMist.
We are heartily pleased with the
nominations. No others could have
satisfied lis 50 we'll. And this. not
simply because they are republicans.
but because they are more than this.
, We believe them to he honest men.
true men. well-qualilied for the posi-
tions to which they have been nomi-
mated. Besides. we do not believe them
to he politicians in any narrow par
tiZan sense of the word. We consider
the manner of their choice highly credit
able to the republican party and to the
! a.
office has sought the men. and not the
men the office. Green Mountain " est
Ramdolph) Hcraid.
The Emperor of Russia on leaving
England made the London police ii
present of S5OOO, besides giving to II
number of the chiefs articles of jewelry
such as rings, pins, etc, some of them