Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-28
GN1X AND RECORD AND FARMER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER
THE HOUSEHOLD.


ANNNNAAANNNN~N
In carrying out thorough cleanliness, we
have much to do besides keeping our bodies,
clothing, bedding, ETC., clean. Our dwelling
must be kept clean also. In my repeated OBJ
servations l have found many houses like
many individuals all the OUTWARD signs were
compatible with reasonable cleanliness some
of the outward signs we're suggestive Of even
extra cleanliness and refinement This seemed
all good-all as IL should be, till you entered
then what change The very first Whit and
sight told you that you were in whited sep
ulchre, which, though not full Of rottening
and dead mems bones, was full to overflow
ing with pestilential dirtiness quite sufficient
to not only destroy heath and comfort, but
life also, especially the lives of the young and
tender, and of the aged. You ask how could
this be in such q house. l answer-the
causes were evident. In many of these houses
most of them-the cellar is placed imme-
diately under the RDing room. In those cell
lars are stored away each winter all the vege-
tables for the winter and spring use. After
time-a very little time, indeed-decomposi-
ton begins, sending forth ammoniacal gases,
ETC., which are very destructive to health and
comfort. These gases permeate every part
of a house so arranged, and will remain long
after the cause is removed, even, so closely
do they cling to q house once affected by
their communicating nature.
Another cause of unwholesome atmosphere
in dwellings is bad drainage, or no drainage
at all. Nothing is so dangerous around
dwelling as dish water and decomposing suds.
These are quite often allowed to ferment, de-
compose and fill the whole premises with
death, in the form of typhus, putrid and
typhoid fevers These are all one though
under three names. AL have their origin in
q poisoned atmosphere. Cesspools are the
terminating gardens Of fevers of all and
every kind. Without filth, typhus fever (my
name) can not exist Such fever revels in a
sinking, contaminated atmosphere aud can't
originate without it, nor long linger after re-
moval to pure air.
Besides vegetable cellars under our dwell
ings and sinking cesspools, we have in our
houses another fruitful source of poor health
and disease. Papers on our walls, when of q
picturesque kind. look well and are really
pleasant and attractive, and when properly
attended to are free from real danger TO our
health. But if proper care is neglected; If
the cellars are of pernicious nature, or the
paper allowed to remain too long on the wall,
then we are in danger though the danger is
insignificant when compared to the above
causes. The green should not be in our pat
terms on any account, as they are the result
of arsenious acid, and very poisonous, espeo-
tally when green is the prevailing color, as
We pulto OAAtn nol onll III OuE tOnuOn
patterns, but in many of our very best pat
terms also. Paper on no account, should be
allowed to remain on our walls more than two
years, and yearly papering, if we paper at all,
| is far safer and much more clearly. When
we renew our paper we should on no account
leave on any Of the old paper. Every parti-
Gle should be carefully taken of. II, when
the paper is removed, we should sponge the
bare walls with Tildens bromo chloralum, it
would render the room pure and healthy, as
this, in the form of one to eight, would
| thoroughly deodorize and disinfect. This
would not cost more than ten cents for an or
binary good-sized room. One more bad eff
feet is known to me to be produced by a
thick coating of flour paste No flour should
be used in our papering, or glue of any kind,
or sizing of any kind. Paper will stick bet
ter, hold longer, look better, and in all re-
spects be better when but on by clean, thin
starch To do this is much more clearly in
the putting on, and far more easy for the OPP
orator. IVm. Horne N. d., in Ohio Farm
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