River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-12-18
MOIST VS.. DRY.

may | be permitted to criticize the
critic. | shall confine the discussion
TO the only point alluded to in the quo
tation, viz: the effect of moisture on
the air of artifcally heated rooms.
and statements drawn from
the general subject of climatology
may be quite fallacious when applied
to this question, though want of space
fogbids such analysis as would show
their irrelevancy.
The propositions Of DR.. Davis are
~ that approximation with watery
vapor of the air of a room renders it
~ that the more thorough
ly desiccated the air is ''the more salu-
brious, inyigorating and healthful.
OF the first 1T may be said that the
Doctor is fighting man of straw, as
no sanitarist ever advocated the super
or any near approximation
to it, of the air of any living room.
And SO far from this being condition
likely to occur | presume the Doctor
might visit a thousand living and
school rooms and not find one APP
preaching this condition, but on the
contrary in vast majority the humid
ity would be at so low a point as to
very nearly fulfill his ideal. In the
quotation cited the hygnometer indi-
Gated so degrees short of this, so that
the denunciations aimed at this condi-
ton are not pertinent to the discus
sion. The DIR. makes the mistake, that
while deprecating condition UNI
doubtedly harmful, he approves the
opposite extreme which is fully as
detrimental. In this as of most other
conditions perfection is found between
the extremes. The question whether
a relative degree of moisture, and this
much exceeding that usually found in
artificially heated r0oms,i is essential to
economy of fuel and necessary to the
comfort and health of the inmates,
might perhaps be safely relegated to
those who have made sanitary science
a life study. and whose uniform deci-
sions are in the Affirmative. AS
single illustration of this. Dr.. Reid the
distinguished English sanitarlst, states
that in ventilating the House of Com
mons he often exposed the air furnish
ed TO 5000 square feet of evaporating
surface to impart the necessary mois-
ture, and subsequently made the air
flow through jets of water. But as
all this seems inconclusive to DIR. ID.
the reasons therefor will be indicated
as briefly as possible. / believe there
is no issue made as to economy, "facts
speaking for themselves" yet to the
fact of the equalization of the heat of
a room produced by proper degree of
moisture, of great Importance from an
.Nf M %
may be added in explanation OF the
difference in sensible heat, or the rel
alive warming qualities Of dry and
moist air. Heated dry air is a very
bad warmer. This fact is shown by
the immunity of those experimentors
who have renamed for a short time
in room hot enough to cook meat.
Air with proper amount of moisture
will feel warmer and will warm one
when cold more quickly at IS degrees
than very dry air at 80 degrees. Com
fort and health are so inSeparable that
they may be considered together. In
regard to comfort II trust to the de-
cision of any one after fair trial of
the dry, scorched air of most living
rooms, and then of the soft balmy
qualities of a properly moistened at
| have heard an intelligent
physician state that his restless, half
delirious fever patients were not in
frequently quoted into calm and rest
full sleep by changing the dry, parching
of the sick room for one
properly moistened. And this is not
to be wondered at when we consider
the effect of hot dry air on the system.
''By it the insensible PRECIPITATION is
increased and as it is a true evapora-
ton it will generate cold proportion
ate to its amount. 1t may do this to
such an extent as to produce general
chilliness when the murcury is high,
but usually those parts of the body
which are most insulated in the air
and furtherest from the heart will
feel the refrigerating influence most,
hence that GOODNESS of the hands and
and feet so frequently experienced.
The brain being screened by the skull
from the evaporating influence will re-
main relatively hot and will get sur
charged besides with the fluids which
are expelled from the eXtremities by
the contraction of the blood vessels
caused by the cold, producing frequent
and obstinate headaches. These i'll
effects being aggravated by the i'm
perfect equalization of the heat where
by the head is kept in a super-heated
atmosphere. If the air be very dry
Dr DIS. pure air. it desiccates and
parches the surface of the body, the
lining membrane of the respiratory
passages-mOuth, nose, throat and
l., Al ii
duce great suffering or actual disease.
In reply to the request for an explana-
ton of the reason ''why the constit-
uentS of the out door air should be
changed from comparatively dry to
{ partial saturation by the diffusion
Of steam inside of dwellings," it may
be said that it is because of the fact
that the capacity of air for the alb
sorption and retention of moisture in
creases very rapidly in proportion to
the increase Of temperature, thus an
at zero out of doors may
be nearly saturated with moisture land
if comparatively dry so much the
Worse), vet if admitted into room
and heated to 800 it will be insuffera-
bly, dry as it's capacity for absorbing
dllu WI y oSSh
TO % times it's former ca
pacity, and its avidity for moisture
would be so great as to cause the rap
id sucking out OF the moisture from
every object with which it was in con-
tact-rendering absolutely necessary
for the preservation of health and
that there should be some ar
tificial supply present. These sup
plies are usually very inadequate and
should be greatly increased rather
than diminished. HUMIDUs.
We have lot of women and Misses
Button, Lace and calf shoes coming
on the rail and expect them every
day; also some of those mems boots,
calf and kip, those cheap ones you
know, at the same old price $2.75 and
50 IS, notwithstanding the rise in
leather. PETER E. BRADSHAW & Co.
CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS.
CRIMINAL.
state of Wisconsin vs.. Frank Newell. Ac-
quilted.
State of Wilson VS.. Willard Wilson. YER
State of Wisconsin vs. Alexander Carlson.
Verdict--guilty.
State Of Wisconsin VS. August CLIFFORD
Verdict-guilty.
State of Wisconsin VS. Earnest Desjarden.
Continued.