The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-23


BILE and healthy for FIRE. Especially i
it is rainy make . fire, no matter wha'
the month is, and use the almanac te
start the fire, If that stands in your way
It may save you from an attack of rheu
matism or lung fever.
! Ventilate, said Professor Kedzie, every
room in your house. The material !.
plenty; there is abundant circulation
material current for that purpose. Id
dwelt at length ON the contamination o.
air by respiration, saying that if ths
carbon which was thrown off from oul
lungs in the form Of carbonic acid re
manned visible like lamp black, there i:
hardly a house wife in the land who
would not awake with q gasping shud
der to see her bedroom filled with this
black smoke, sent off from the lungs Of
the sleepers. But because this dirt il
invisible she regards the air of her bed
room as clean. Shall she wash hel
hands five or six times day with clean
water and wash her lungs 20, 900 times
a day with dirty airp Every bedroom
should have window, and when you
open a window you will find the out
door air Immediately on the outside and
ready at moments notice. A board
four inches wide, having straight edges
and sawed the width of the window, il
laid edgewise under the lower sash,
would serve very good purpose. Ven.
tilation shafts were very often obstruct-
ed, and it was question whether gim-
let hole would not be as good as some
of the artistic ventilators.
..s THE CELLAR H i'5a
should be dry and well ventilated, and
no vegetable or other useless rubbish
should ever be left in it. 1t was in the
cellar that diphtheria and membrane
Gus Group, the destroyer of childhood,
lay in ambush, and typhoid fever, that
strikes all ages; here lurked, too, the
seeds of consumption. The spotted mold
and fungus attacking the timber of the
cellar show that destructive agencies
are at work and death gnawing at the
very stills of the house. Damp, musty,
moldy cellars are seed-beds of disease.
Drain the cellars and underdrain the
surrounding soil, so that the cellar shall
be always dry. Drive out all mustiness
and mold by ventilation and abundant
use of white-wash.
LET IN THE SUNLIGHT.
He said he was amazed to see how
dark we keep our houses. 1t was not
for want of windows; there were enough
of them. But they were blinded and
curtained until we need an owls eyes to
get around our rooms in the daylight.
Bulwer forcibly says: "No plant so
much as man demands light and air. "
In dark and sunless rooms we find feeble
development, nervous diseases and con-
sumption, with all their wretched train.
Many houses are so covered and shad-
owed by trees that the sunlight is ex-
GUIDED; the walls are damp, the rooms
easily become musty, and boots and
clothing readily mildew. Such houses
can not be healthy. Cut down the trees
so as to let in the sunlight, or if the
trees are too sacred to be touched, then
burn up the house. Professor Kedzie
said he liked to see trees near house,
and thought some amount of shade nee
essary for health and comfort, but in
planting trees about a house, and espe-
cially in their subsequent growth, see to
it that the sunlight kisses with his bene-
diction every wall of your house. Let
no consideration come between you and
a sunny home.
PURE WATER.
A good supply of pure water is a
fountain of life in any household, but a
we'll into which fall the drippings from
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is pit-fall of disease. Every well acts
as drain to an inverted cone of earth,
the bottom of the well being the apex of
the cone, and the base of the cone is a
circle, with we'll for its center. The
diameter of this circle will vary with the
porosity of the soil. With very COM
pact clay free from seams it may be on
ly three or four rods, but with porous
sand and gravel it may be 10 or Is rods,
or even more if the well is very deep.
Any foul material that gets into the
water within this drainage area tends to
find its way into the well. The water
filters through the soil, giving up to the
soil all suspended insoluble matter and
much that it holds in solution; but when
the soil becomes saturated with this
sewage matter, this will then pass on in
to the well and become source of dis
ease. There is no other so abundant
cause of typhoid fever in the country.
Do not say the water is clear; f" clear''
and "clean'' are two very different
things as applied to water. If there is
any possibility of contamination of the
water of your well, you may apply this
Fill a perfectly clean quart bottle two
thirds full with the water; dissolve in
this a teaspoonful of the clearest white
sugar, cork the bottle and set it away in
a warm place. II it remains clear and
bright you need fear no evil; but if it
turns milky white and gives off an often
sive gas, beware how you drink the
dirty stuff. ea -aF - .r..-Ig.t .ill-
Professor Kedzie closed his lecture by
an appropriate reference to the necessi-
ty Of securing healthy homes in the
contending that the hope Of the
its brain and Drawn, were
fostered and maintained chiefly by those
bred in the country. ....-,
The Turkish navy is reported as COM
prising % ironclads, several of which
are of the first class, besides 20, other
steamers. Out of the latter few small
monitors have been destroyed since the
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