The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-01-31
COOKED AIa.
s une Of The Ceid-vrestier Fol les sf fI.s
American People
ILilaceInllia Lna.er


Philscelphia Ledser
There Is one very good reason why
people q take cold > in winter time. Most
oi the weli-to-dO spend their lives, when
indoors, ia cooked air. The lower down
the thermometer goes tie higher the
burning coai is piled 81 the chinks and
cracks are stopped that would .et any
fresh air in, and It's main chance, indeed.
is when the front door opens for twenty
seconds, or when the beds are made in
the sleeping-roOms. Ia the living rooms
of the family there is no occasion, nianv
people think, to rAise the windows ever,
except 10 wash them, ON periodical
cleaning days, or to shut in the shutters.
80 carpets and furniture and people,
lungs and skin, are dried and baked In
tine hot, dry rooms, until ingenious
persons can bring out electric sparks
from their finger ends By skating apidly
up and down the room in their wooden
slippers.
Out from this kiIn-dried atmosphere
into the winter streets and into the very
cold or very damp air plunge the folks
who live in these ai--tight rooms They
put on plenty Of wraps, but they wear
the same foot>gsar and they carry the
same lungs out into the streets with
them and the same sensitive skin. Then
they 90 into friends houses and sit in
other hot room with all their wraps on,
or they sit in church rews, the women,
at least, heavily mufled in furs ana
wooiens, for matter o two hours.
(WhY a man viii take off his overcoat
in CHUCK ~ as',,ssaa2a.sl Cling to their
the puzzles for the wise to settle, or for
the next hundred questions of an inquir-
ing world) Again, they 90 out in the
damp streets, and it is wonder TO all
docto-s and thinkers that they 90 not
all take" and keep, too, that conges,ed
state Of lungs, and membranes, and
chilled blood vessels that we class under
tris one convenient term of cold"
Perhaps the houses are not kept any
warmer than they ought to Be, when
people are taking but little exercise. Bat
they certainly are, nearly all of them
too dry and lacking in constantly re-
newed pure air. u has teen before re-
marked in the Ledger that folks who are
extremely particular about wearing their
own clothes, and who woald by no
means consent 70 take the cast-of gar
ments OF a neighbor one and ali OF them
are perfectly com ortabie 70 breathe over
and over again tie east.off and soiled air
from each others larcs, when it Is
cooked especia Y; for il summer time
they DO insist on change OF it, and do
get their houses ventilated. Jsnitors of
public buildings, iu short-sighted econ
omy OF fuel, will shut up all the aper-
lures by which fresh air might got in,
lest they should suffer some heat to es-
cape thereby, and are rewarded by
sleepy audiences, especially when the
gas-burners are at work, also draining
the cooked air of what little life it has.
There are some pcople-many, it is
hoped-who open an inch OF two of theiI
bedroom windows every night to in,
sure modicum OF fresh air to sleep by
But these do not in the least care to
have resh air TO be awake in, it seems,
for they are content to have their fur
mace draw all its supplies from the tight
~ -sesled c-llsR and from the stale at
mosphere of ash boxes and vegetable
bins in thst Hbterranean apartment.
When we live in fresh air within doors
as without, with its proper proportions
of moisture Tor the skin and breathing
apparatus to keep up their healthy tone,
it is likely We shall have found out one
way at least OF how not to take cod.