The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-01-23
COOKED Ala.
Some OF Ihe COIG-WsstIIer FOIsIas Of Sie
- AEsericaz People.
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Some OF Ihe COIG-WsstIIer FOIsIas Of Sie
ARlerIcaa People.
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There is one. very good reason why
people &. take cold y in winter time. Most
OF the well~to-do spend their lives, when
in-doots, in cooked air. The lover down
the thermometer goes the higher the
burning coal Is piled al the chinks and
,cracks are stopped that would Jet any
fresh airin, and it's main chance, indeed,
is when the front door opens for twenty
seconds, or when the beds are made in
the sleeping g-rOOms. Ia the. Living rooms
of the family there is no occasion, many
people think, to raise the windows ever,
except to wash them, on periodical
cleaning days, or to shut in the shutters.
So carpets and furniture and people,
lungs and skin, are dried aDd baked in
the hot, dry rooms; until ingenious
persons can bring out electric sparks
from their finger ends by skating rapidly
up and down the room in their woolen
slippers.
Out from this Liln-dried atmosphere
into the winter streets and into the very
cold or very damp air pltnge tbe folks
who live ia tbesS SaiS-tight rooms. They
put on plenty of wraps, but they wear
the same foot~gear and they carry the
same lungs out into the streets with
them and the same sensitive skin. Then
they so into friends houses and sit in
other hot rooms with all their wraps on,
or they sit in church rews, the women,
at least, heavily mufTled in furs and
woOiens, for 2 matter o. two hours.
| (Why man viii take off his overcoat
in church and women cling 10 their
jackets as to an srticle of faith, Is among
the puzzl. for the wise to settle, or tor
the next hundred questions of an iuquir-
ing worldly Again, they so out in the
damp streets, and it is q wonder to all
doctos and thinkers that they 90 not
all {" take, and keep, too, that coDgeste
state of lungs, and membranes, and
chilled blood vessels that we class under
this one convenient term of " cold"
Perhaps the houses are not. kept any
warmer than they cught 10 be, when
people are taking but little exercise. Bot
they certainly are, nearly all of them
too dry and lacking in constantly re-
newed pure air. It bss keen before re-
marked in the Ledger that folks who are
extremely particular sbout wearing their
own clothes, and who w0ald by no
means consent to take the cast-ofT gar
ments OF a noighbor- one and ali Of them
are perfectly comfortable 70 breathe over
and over. again the cast of and soiled air
from each others largz, when it is
cooked esaecially; for il summer time
they o'iusi-t ou a change Of it, and dc
get their hcusez ventilated. Janitors oi
public buildings, iua oresighted econ
OmY of fuel, will shut up sll the aper'
lures by which fresh air might get in
lest they should suffer lome heat to es.
cape thereby, and are Tewarded by
sleepy audiences, especially when the
gas-burners are at work, also draining
the cooked air of what little life it has
r AHCIS are sOLuS pcot'iG--L LLsHyJ IL Al
hoPed-who open an inch OF two Of theil
bedroom windows every night to in
sure 8 modicum OF fresh air to sleep by
4 But these DO not in the least care Il
have iIesh air TO be awakes in, it seems
, for they are content to have their fur
mace draw all its supplies from the tight
ly-sesled cellar, and from the stale at
n1osPhere of the ASH boxes and vegetable
bins in that subterranean apartment
When we live in fresh air within door
as without, vita It's proper proportion
q Of moisture for the skin and breathin,
J, apparatus to keep up their healthy tone
? it is likely we shall have found out ont
t way at least OF how not to take cold.