The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-20

anQ midnight, anu NJ inv NOuiu wv
saw that be did not keep bis work
well in hand. lie carried his bust
ness habits into literary work, was
PROMPT. systematic, and got through
with al amount of it which ano her
man could have spread through q
whole day, and been Justified 10 cali
ing himself well tasked after that. l
want to hold this picture up before
young men who who are ambitious
of literary success. If they can
grapple with business : hours q
day. study or write i've OF six more
for fifteen or twenty years, they stand
a chance of the good things which
the men who own them won in the
same way. The finest literary work
the country has to be proud of, and
that which does it most honor in cul-
tivated circles abroad, has been pro-
duced by such men as the twin crit
les, Il. IL. Stoddard and Steadman,
after hours" not in the leisure of a
life set apart for such pursuits. There
is a class of young men who will not
20 into business because they fancy
they have a vocation for art or litera-
ture. and make themselves a terror
10 editors and successful writers by
hanging round, ~beseeching letters of
introduction to this, that and the 9TH
er magazine or newspaper, and look
ing for a position which will at once
give them enough 10 live on
UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN.
The mild winter has proved q very
sickly and dangerous one for chill
dren and young people, among
whom diptheria, and scarlet fever
make ravages known only to the
health officers aud those who casual
~ glance at such returns as seven
hundred deaths by diprheria in one
week. ST. Mary's Hall, an Episce-
pal school of the best order, for girls,
near Burlington, n. j., was lately
broker up by typhoid fever, thirty
cases Of which made their appear
ance among the scholars at one time.
This case, which was caused by the
use of river water held in foul els
terms ought to lead TO thorough in
spection Of the sanitary condition Of
boarding schools through the. country,
few of which will be found satisfac-
tory IN their arrangements to well
bred physician. Principals and teach
ers have too much care on their hands
to notice that the water tastes brack-
ish, or that there is a bad odor linger-
ing about parts of the house, or any
Of q dUZen signs which tell the expe
rienced sense that something is awry
with matters on which health and
lie depend. | have known fever
bred in u fashionable boarding school
because the chambermaids had too
much to do u empty the slops prop
erIy, and they were left to overflow
carpets and yitiate the air of the dor
mitories. And this leads to a theo-
ry | lately hea d about the ~uubealth-
iuess of New York itself. 1t is fast
growing the home OF intermittent fe-
yer, 50 much 50 that persons of Ger
tain temperaments cannot live there
six weeks without losing health, and
are forced to give up living there al
together. The cause has teen laid
to the fault Of sewers, and to the i'm
perfect drainage of the old marshes
about 18Th street, which were built
over long ago. While giving this
fact due weight, those who have
locked into the subject do not scruple
charge the ague and intermitten t
abounding TO ventilation and
i'll condition inside of the houses.
They say that New York is largely
made up Of b0ardiDg-houees and no
tells, TO say nothing Of families in
the most glariDg neglect Of
Of every law of health is the rule and
not the exception. Houses are built
On wrong principles and with their
kitchen and dining-rOoms, and
bedrooms, their closets and bath
rooms passing the fOulest air eontin-
ually into the body Of the house are
as fruitful Of malaria as if the occu-
pants lived on the edge of a swamp
Comparatively few even of the first
rate hotels and boarding-houses have
anything like proper ventilation.
The passages smell musty, the air
rom q hundred close bedrooms pour
Hg into them, while not a window is
opened in the halls from October till
May. Not a pleasant subject to
'peak OF, but one Of vital Importance,
lot only 70 residents, but to property
holders in New York, for it is a seri-
,us question where to find a healthy
place to live within a dozen miles Of
his city, and the most rigid sanitary
conditions must be learned aud en-
breed where so many thousand dwell
crs are crowded together, or living
n the city is not to be thought Of. |
will say that families who keep we'll
,rdered, well ventilated houses find
lothing to complain of in New York
more than in other cities.
DEFECTIVE FLUEs.
TIE recent FIRE on Fifth avenue, in +;
which a fine family house caught
rom an ~overheated fiue, has ted to
s~earchings into cause and effect, q,
which show the facilities modern
iouses afford for getting Us burned
n our bsds. The joists and floors Of
be finest houses are ca~relessly laid,
that the ends come in contact With
ire Aues, when the heat chars them 5
nd prepares the material for a con- Q
.agration at a moments notice. The {
steiner mansion, owned by a
ieh Jewish merchant, took fire last +
ear from this cause, and the mother I
nd daughter Of a wealthy aAd hap i
" family lost their lives. The mag 5
ilicent synagogue on Fifth avenue c
ook fire from a red hot nail heated i
v the fue, into which ii was driven. i
Is one cannot with any assurance Of i
uccess Inspect every nail head about e
be house every night before going .
o bed-the feelings with which tim /
4 people lay their heads upon their :
NAV be described as the re- I
.crse Of soothing. =
NEW YEARS CALLS. :
The young swelIs of New York 2