The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-08
Cold Bed-Roe,ns.

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tt Is always a matter Of great moment
to maintain on equitable temperature In
the bedroom. a bedroom the AIR of
which il subject to great and frequent
and raEid changes Of temperature IS
always ii trap for danger. To persons
who are In the prime Of lifa and who are
in robust hesith, this danger Is less pro
nomeed, bat to the young and the fec
bic it is n most serious danger It Is
especially dangerous to aged people to
sleep in a room that IS easily lowered II
warmth When the great waves Of cold
come IN the winter season, old people
begin to drop of with q rapidly that Is
perfectly startling. We take up the list
of deaths during these seasons, and the
most marked Of facts IS the number Of
deceased aged persons it IS Ike M
epidemic OF death by Old age. The pub
lie mind accepts this recJr1 IS indicative
OF q general change Of external condi-
lions, and od a mortality, therefore, tliat
is necessary as a fesult Of that change.
] world not laysclf dispute that there Is
q line Of truth and souId common sense
and common observation IN this view,
bat when we descend from the general
to the particular we find that much Of
the mortality seen IL such excess among
the aged is induced by mistakes on the
saDjoct Of warmth IN the bedroom.
The fatal event comes about somewhat
IN this way. The room in which the en-
feebled person has been sitting before
going to bed has been warmed probably
mp to summer heat; light meal has been
taken before retiring to rest, and then the
bedroom Is entered. The bedroom per
chance has 10 fire IL It, or, II Il fire be
lighted, provision is not made to keep IL
alight for more than au hour OF two
The result is that m the early
part of the morning, from three to
four o'clock, when the temperature OF
the air in MI parts IS lowest, the glow
from the ire or stove which should warm
the room has ceased, and biie room /
cold to m extreme degree. In country
houses the water viii often be found
frozen in tho hand-basins or ewers under
these conditions.
Meanwhile, the sleeper lies unconscious
of the great change which = taking
place III the mir around him. Slowly and
surely there IS O decline Of tempera-
ture to the extent, il may be of thirty or
forty degrees on the Fahrenheit scale;
AID though he may be fairly covered
with bed-clOtbcs, he is receiving into his
lungs this cold air, by which the circula-
ton through the lungs is materially
modified.
The condition Of the body itself is at
this time unfavogablc for meeting any
emergency In the period between mid
night and six in tho morning the animal
vital processes are at their lowest ebb.
It is in these times that those who are en-
feelled from any cause most frequently
die. Physicians often consider these
hours as critical, and forewarn anxious
r. = l.. ~
4 iInmemorial those who have been ac-
customad to wait and tend on the sick
have noted these hours most anxiously,
80 that they have been called by one Oh
/ our old writer's +" the hours of fate" In
/ this space Of time the influence of the
! Hfe-giving sun has been longest with
drawn from man, and the hearts that arc
/ even the strongest beat then with sub
dued tone Sleep is heaviest, and death
is nearest to us all, IL "the hours OF
fate"
The safest method is to have the air Of
the room, a short time before it Is Occll-
pied, brought mp to a uniform tempera-
ture OF sixty so s1xty-hve degrees Fahren-
heit 1t should never iall five degrees
below sixty degrees, and never rise above
siXty-five degrees under ordinary circum-
stances. In cases where the occupant OF
the room Is extremely cn1ecDlCd IL may
be necessary to raise the temperature to
higher point.
mistake is sometimes made in OBJ
serving the temperature. The reading
Of the thermometer is taken in one part
of the room only, perhaps in the warm
est part-that is to say, over the fire
place or from the mantel-sheF This !.
not fair observation, for a room at thai
part may be very warm, while it Is very
cold III other parts The tamperatur
should, properly, be taken at the beds
head, about two feet above the pillow,
and that is the best position in which tc
keep the thermometer, with which every
bedroom Ought to be furnished. Al
ordinary thermometer suiices as n gen
eral index, but Il registering instrument
Z Is most advantageous when particular
care is demanded in observation. --I{Ss'
pcr's Weekly.