, 1878-03-16
What Causes Consumption.

What Causes Consumption.
Statistics prove that the per-
centage of deaths by consump-
tion keep exact pace with the
number of inhabitants who fol
low indoor occupations. More
women than men are victims to
it, because more women spend
their time indoors as a matter
of course. The rooms in which
they live are generally very
warm, and without ventilation.
When their poor, abused lungs
break down, they anathematize
the =" dlsagreeable and un-
healthful climate" though their
failing health can be traced di-
rectly to an outrageous violation
of the physical laws of nature.
How many people in this city
are preparing for the coming of
the undertaken by sleeping in
warm rooms, with the death
dealing base-burner in full blast?
The old prejudice against night
air still clings to many. They
exclude it from their living and.
sleeping rooms, and when they
shut it out they shut in every
night enough poison to carry
them over Jordan's stormy
waves. Then the air in churches
and public assemblies Is unlver-
sally bad. Apparently the bless
ings of ventilation are unknown
to the custodians Of the doors
and windows of such places. If
Christians had half the regard
for their lungs that they have
for their souls, they would labor
for a pure air ordinance in the
churches that would give them
more time and vigor to prepare
for heaven. The theater is not
much better. Until places Of
amusement and worship are bet
ter ventilated, no one who has
proper regard for his lungs
should frequent them, unless he
carry his own cubic air with
him. Factories, printing Offices
and all places where human be-
ings are cOrraled for several
hours together, are csnserva-
tories for the propagation of con
sumption. Who were the
healthy people? Those who,
years ago, slept in rooms that
never knew a fire, and worship
ed in churches as cold as the
experience of the Polaris expe-
dition. Now, surrounded with
every comfort, a large proper
ton of the population of this
country cuts loose from It's life
every year by means Of con-
sumption. Pure air will make
the dread scourge avaunt. Open
the windows at the top, and
keep them open night and day
and see how quick consumption
will sneak out of sight.-Denuer
Neacs.
The White House is literally
supplied with newspapers, only
a few of which are kept on file.
President Grant used to have
one of his secretaries cut out the
leading editorials Oh political
topics IN the New York daily pa
pers, and occasionally from pa
pers published in other cities,
which cuttings were handed
to him in a bunch for his perusal
late in the afternoon or in the
evening. Mr.. Hayes does not
follow this system-or, rather,
be has materially modified it. 1t
is the duty of one of the clerks
at the white house to take charge
of all the newspapers received.
Enough of them to fill bushel
baske. are received every day.
Many of them are unimportant.
The newspaper clerk cuts from
most of the influential papers
such editorial and other matter
as he thinks Of interest to the
president, which he afterward
pasts in scrap-books, of which a
series is kept. The president,
from time to time, runs over
these books, and sees what
the newspapers of the country
are saying about him and his
administration. Mrs. Hayes
takes number of religious
weeklies, mostly Of the Meth
cdist denomination, and these,
with Harper's Weekly,- and cop
les of daily papers containing
matters of special interest to the
family of the white house, are
usually to be found scattered
over the library tables.