The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-13
Heat and Light.

The best temperature at which TO keel
a room, for healths sake, is about sixty
nine or seventy degrees, above the man
tel-piece. Less than this is far NOR
agreeable to many, ard a greater degree
of heat is unwholesome, to say nothing
of the danger of catching chill on 90
ing out from n room 90 heated. Elderl,
people should never put on cold anC
unaired overcoat before going out-of
doors in winter; it takes but few mo
ments to warm, so there is no need tC
run any risk. 1t does no harm, either
to warm both fingers and toes before
going out then, if brisk walk be
taken, there is little fear of any sudden
or dangerous lowering of the animal
heat. Walking can be done with greater
ease and comfort if the clothes be light
and it is very easy thing to have them
made of materials that are both light
and warm. The chest in people adj
vanced in years needs all the protection
you can give it; and here L tell you
something worth remembering the
back requires protection from the cold
as much if not more than the breast, and
yet protectors are nearly always worn on
the chest only--a mistake that is fatal TO
thousands. The custom of taking cor
dials, generally of a vinous nature, to
keep up the animal heat, is very bad
one. Never take a cordial of any kind
If You can really do without it. If one
be very weakly in constitution, he
should consult a medical man on the
subject, and do exactly as he advises.
There is no light like the light of day;
the lower animals seem to know this,
and make it their maxim to go early to
bed, and be astir with the dawn. We
human beings, however, must have ar
tificial light of some kind, though we
should never forget that candles, lamps,
and gas all consume our precious oxv-
gen, and produce poisonous carbonic
acid gas and the larger the burner, the
greater the amount of oxygen consumed,
and the more the need for perfect venti-
lation. Even four per cent. of carbonic
acid gas in. bedroom is injurious TO
health and dangerous to life; therefore
| warn my readers against the too com
mon habit of burning lights all night.
For many reasons, too numerous here to
specify, sleeping in the dark is more re-
freshing than in a glare of light, wheth
er natural OF artificial.
Everybody should wear some kind of
flannel under-clothing all the year
round though, if l must make an ex
ception, let me advise them that flannel
be worn in winter'and silk in summer;
and this l mean to refer also to a change,
in hot weather, from stockings or socks
of wool to those made of the softer and
thinner but none the less comfortable
silk. Those who suffer from
cold feet should wear two pairs of light
soft socks. Old people should always
have their feet thus clothed, for their
hearts are not so strong as they were in
by gone days, and can not pump the
warm blood to the extremities with the
force they were wont to. Few things
lre more destructive to, or rather, |
should say, few things tend more to
waste, the animal heat than cold feet
and cold hands. The old among us
should protect both, not forgetting that
5he spring and winter months are par
fatal to those advanced in life.
The aged ought to wear flannel
ather than cotton night dress; it
should be of sufficient length, too, to
over the limbs, and bed-socks should
llso be worn these should be of the
ightest, softest wool that can be pro-
'ured. They should have a sufficient
quantity of bedclothes, and no more,
'ach blanket being light and soft; but
leavy countorpanes should never be
lept under, for the weight of them
makes sleep fatiguing, instead of re-
reshing, as it ought to be.-Hmper's
Weekly.