The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-02

the pillows in full range of the windows,
and pull the mattress over the foot
board, and 60 to breakfast with a clear
conscience.
Do not be in too great haste to have
the bed made. Leave it and your night
clothes long enough for the sun to dry
off the morning dew that may have
dampened them. Hang the night-gar-
ments up in the closet, but never fold
them to be put under the pillows. By
strict observance of this method one
may be sure of sweet, healthful
changes, for morning and night, and
exemption from more suffering and dis
ease than people are willing to believe
can spring from such light neglects.
There is much said of watchfulness-
and constant care respecting free circu-
lation and cleanliness in cellars; par
ticularly in milk and vegetable cellars.
Too much can not be said on those
points. But how far do housekeepers
learn through the evidence of their own
senses that such advice and minute di-
rections are carried out? Go to the
milk-cellar. Well, the pans look bright
and clean and smell sweet; so do the
churn, the butter-bowl and other uten-
sis. All! the Odor comes from this
corner, and every article seems clean.
But you have only looked into the pans,
bowls, etc. You have moved nothing.
Lift up some of the things near the spot
where the odor is offensive. Aha! what
have we here! Surely Joan has left her
old scrub-cloth up in this corner since
wiping up the cellar-foor. This is only
one item. Others will be found on ex-
animation.
Do you now understand why the milk
and butter have tasted badly this week?
Nothing is so easily injured as milk, I'M
less it is the health; and if these odors
are allowed to exist day after day, with
no real, thorough, active effort to trace
the evil, how long will it be before the
health will begin to suffer from the same
causes!
If the milk-cellar gives the first warn
ing, and the mischief is cast out there'
how more than probable that much
more injurious safe of things will be
found in the vegetable cellar; and poison
from that source will bring much more
serious results. We do not think it safe
to store vegetables or green wood in the
cellars of dwelling-houses. The exhala-
tons from large mass of fruit or vege-
tables packed into cellar are poison
Gus even before decay commences, and
also the vapors or gas from green wood;
and separate buildings ought to be pro-
vided for them. Every year we hear
of one death after another in
homes that seem the per-
lection of comfort and elegance; but
when the blow has been repeated again
and again some one rouses up and sees
the necessity of investigation. The
sewerage is found defective, or vegeta-
bles, or unseasoned wood have been
stored directly under the home rooms.
The poison from these causes naturally
rises, and those who day after day think
themselves blessed in the enjoyment of
such lovely home are breathing disease
and death with every hours enjoyment.
One and another remembers, when too
late, that at times some disagreeable
odor was perceptible in the air of the
rooms, but no danger was thought of.
We do not propose to enter into any
minute detail of all the causes by which
health is injured and life shortened
through carelessness; but hope a few
hints will start householders, and house.
keepers especially, on a tour of investi-
CATION in their own homes.-Mrs. Fl. w.
Beecher, IN the Christian Union.
"A green Christmas makes lean
plumber.