Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04
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CELLAR FLooRs.-Wooden floors should
not be placed in cellars. 1t is not easy to
tell what cellar. floor may conceal from
sight, and it should always be remembered
that the air of cellar circulates freely
through the house.
A plank cellar floor of family in neigh
boring city had not been taken up for over
ten years. The "celar smell" was strong,
Notwithstanding almost daily ventilation even
in winter.
On removing the floor there was found be-
meath it large quantities of sawdust, decom'
posed to moist, impal pable powder The
stirring up connected with its removal result
ed in several members of the family being
taken with severe tonsillitis. A cemented
floor since given to the same cellar has rem.
dered the air in the cellar as pure as that in
any room in the house.
A family near the one already mentioned
was troubled with notwithstanding at
tacks of sickness. After receiving correct
ideas of domestic hygiene, the "head of the
family" had his premises carefully examined.
An expert first found under the L-fioor an
old, disused cistern, the water of which was
thickly covered with decayed matter.
The air in tie parlor-though care was
constantly taken that this room should be
aired-having very dissgreeable odor, the
expert went into the front cellar, which was
neat and clean ard we'll warmed. There,
having pried up plank, the man found a
soft mass of deep black mud, the product OF
decay. The family at once sought other
quarters, and havesince enjoyed good health.
THE DANGERS OF KEROSENE LAMPs.--The
kerosene lamp has been so prominently en-
gagged in bursting and blowing human beings
into hospitals and eternity that many people
are under the impression that it has no time
in which to attend to anything else. This is
great mistake, and a convincing proof OF its
abilities in another direction is found in a dis.
patch announcing the death by sufocation OF
q Priest who had slept in room in which a
lamp was burning imperfectly. How many
thousand headaches are discovered every
morning in bedchambers that have been
lighted through the night by kerosene lamps
turned down too low" will never be known,
but the aggregate is enormous, and cannot be
otherwise, for small fame in lamp chin
ney does not cause enough draught to insure
perfect combustion, and this being the case
the slumberers breathe carbon and carbonic
acid gas as literally as if in petroleum rein.
cry. Ifa little light is necessary in bedcham.
ber it may be supplied by specially prepared
taper, by candle, or by wick floating and
supported in animal or vegetable oil but the
turned down kerosene lamp is always me-
mace to health anG life.
A RECIPE WORTH ONE THOUSAND DOL
LARs.-Take ] pound of sal soda and hall
pound of unslaked lime put them in gallon
of water and boil twenty minutes let it stand
till cool, then drain of, and put it in stone
jug or jar. Soak your dirty clothes overnight
or until they are well wet through, then wiring
them out and rub on plenty of soap, and in
one boiler of clothes, we'll covered over with
water, add one seaspoonful of the washing
fluid. Boil half an hour briskly, then ash
them thoroughly through one suds, and rinse
through water, and your clothes will look bet
ter than the old way of washing twice before
boiling. This is an invaluable recipe, and
do want every poor, tired woman to try it. !
think with patent wash tub to do the little
rubbing, the washer. woman might take the
old Bible and compose herself on the lounge
and let the washing do itself.
The woman who can keep. secret has
known this a year or two but her husband
told it while on an eectioneering tour. 81
says the Ohio Cuhivator.
How TO HANG A THERMOMETER An
employee of the Signal Service says in the
first place, the temperature of the wall of any
building at any hour of the night or day is
not the true temperature of the circulating
air, and is of no use to science. A wood wall
will radiate in heat more rapidly than brick
or stone; and the amateur scientist who
hangs his thermometer on wood wall can
force his mercury down below the amateur
who selects brick wall. The proper way
to expose your thermometer is to surround it
with a light WOO frame, covered with Stats
! like shutter wol (, and rooted over. This
will protect it fro a the direct rays of the sun
and reflected heat. Run light wood bar
across the centre of your shelter, to which
you can attach the thermometer, which
should be, when properly exposed, on the
north side of the building, and at least one
foot from the surrounding objects. If these
directions are followed, erroneous reports OF
extreme hot or cold weather will not find their
way into print so often.
LIGHT AT THE HoME.-A dark house is al,
ways unhealthy, always an ill.aired house.
Want of light stops growth, and promotes
scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children
People lose their health in dark house, and
if they get i'll, they cannot get we'll again in it.
DR.. Edwards, of Paris, says the action Of
light tends to develop the different parts Of
the body in that just proportion which char
acterizes the species, and that in warm eli
mates the exposure of the whole surface Of
the body to the action of the light will be
very favorable to the regular conformation Of
the body. Humboldt confirms this in the &C.
count of his voyage to the equinoctial regions
He says:
"Both men and women, whose bodies are
constantly Injured to the effect Of light, are
very muscular, and possess heshy and rounded
forms. 1t is needless to add that have not
seen among this people single case of natu'
raj deformity."
How TO WASH CLOTHES WITHOUT FAD.
1NG.-A lady correspondent sends us the fol.
lowing recipe, which she has tried with success
on all kinds of fabrics Wash and peel Irish
potatoes, and CRATE them into cold water.
Saturate the articles to be washed in this po-
tato water, and they can then be washed