Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-02

cold. The same thing occurred last win
ter, until many children had to leave
school on account of sore throats, head
aches, &C , and the teacher, Mr.. Locke,
was really too i'll to properly attend to his
duties, supposed to be from this cause
After several interviews, explanations and
strong urging, pursuaded one of the
trustees to put the district to the expense
of thirty FIVE cents to buy small pan to
place on the stove, filed with water for an
evaperator. 1t is a well known scientific
fact that heated dir ascends and cold air
descends, It being the heaviest, hence,
after room is apparently filled with warm
air, that which is next the floor is cold.
So when the windows are opened at the
top there are two currents of air estab-
lishcd at once. The hot air goes out by
the top ard the cold air comes in by the
bottom of the aperature and pluHges directly
to the floor, on the heads of the occupants
of that room first, generally. Come call
this ventilation"
Heated water creates steam or vapor,
and, that loads the heated air and bears it
to the ground, diffusing an equal tempera-
ture throughout the room, and removes
that dry, harsh, peculiarly disagreeable
sensation of suffocation or choking.
Some pans Of sheet iron, tin or zinc, with
sufficient surface, filled with water, placed
on these stoves, alleviates this deterious
quality of atmosphere and prevents sore.
throats, headache. Group, dipthcria, bron,
chitis, coughs, colds and consumption, all
at trifling cost, which, when compared
with the cost of that five thousand dollar
school house and the importance of the
health of our little ones, is not immense,
and certainly well worth the outlay, If on.
ly in point of economy in the consumption
of fuel, as, witness the genial warmth of
the kitchen on wash day, or when the tea,
kettle is boiling with but little fire under it.
This subject leads me to another of some
importance also, that is, the overlooking
of few, very few, men in this commu
nifty with offices and duties too great foI
their shoulders to bear. For instance, one
of the school trustees, from time immcmo
rial, runs the county, as auditor, the ere
publican party" therein, as ''boss," some
times the treasury, as deputy, the agricul
tural society, as head centre, church, in
some such capacity, cemetary associa
ton. lodge of United Workmen, Masonic
lodge, several temperance societies, Q
church choir. chairman of as many com
mittees as he can ''catch on" to, besides
other lines of business too numerous tC
mention. Another is boss painter, deals
in paints, putty, ETC., is city justice, admin
istrator of several estates, runs one side Of
a Sunday school, is assistant adjutant gen
eral and abide camp to the former, ant
has been clerk of this school district since
the world began, there, or Whereabouts
The third is county treasurer, occasional
clerk for mercantile establishment, and
soforth, can't remember the rest, but III
has not very grasping disposition any
how. All these are old settlers, will ad
nit, but since their advent into this coun
try, others have come here who can ''reat
write and CIPHER" and should be made Il
bear some of the burdens of these over
loaded gentlemen. 1t is very noticeable
that many of the institutions that are o
have been controlled by trustee numbe
one have been run into the ground, and NJ
wonder, an eight year old OK would breaI
down under such load. here and nov
enter my solemn protest against the ide
that when you see these gentlemen attend
ing every public meeting, organizations o
gatherings of that sort, and nominate eac
other for the lofty offices, that they real
don't banker after 'em, they only evinc
their determination to save the countr
you know.
) expect that the gratitude of these over
taxed individuals will be so great, for hay
: ing called tie attention of the public
this matter, that their caresses and graf
, tude will quite overcome me. Especial
: their caresses. Yours respectfully
A PARENT.